Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble's 'Texas Flood' reissued in January

An expanded two-disc 30th anniversary edition of Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble's Texas Flood will be released on Jan. 29 through Legacy Recordings. 

Executive produced by John Hammond, the original album was produced by the Austin blues guitar legend, his band and Richard Mullen. The Legacy Edition is handled by Gregg Geller (who, as head of Epic A&R in 1983, signed them to the label).

 

An immediate and surprising success, Texas Flood peaked at #38 on the Billboard 200 while "Pride and Joy" was #20 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. The album's title track was nominated for a Best Traditional Blues Performance Grammy while "Rude Mood" grabbed a Grammy nom for Best Rock Instrumental Performance. The 1983 album has sold more than 2 million copies.

 

Disc One of the 30th Anniversary Legacy Edition includes the original album in its entirety with the bonus track "Tin Pan Alley" (aka "Roughest Place in Town").

 

Disc Two will premiere a previously unavailable hour's long set of Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble live at Ripley's Music Hall in Philadelphia on Oct. 20, 1983 for a WMMR broadcast.

Track listing

 

Disc One - Texas Flood

Love Struck Baby

Pride and Joy

Texas Flood

Tell Me

Testify

Rude Mood

Mary Had A Little Lamb

Dirty Pool

I'm Cryin'

Lenny

 

Bonus track:

Tin Pan Alley (aka Roughest Place In Town)

 

Disc Two - Live at Ripley's Music Hall, Philadelphia, October 20, 1983

Testify

So Excited

Voodoo Child (Slight Return)

Pride and Joy

Texas Flood

Love Struck Baby

Mary Had A Little Lamb

Tin Pan Alley (aka Roughest Place In Town)

Little Wing/Third Stone From The Sun

 

(Previously unreleased)

 

The 30th Anniversary Legacy Edition of Texas Flood includes extensive liner notes by noted music historian Ashley Kahn (A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane’s Signature Album; Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece).

In his notes, Kahn writes, "The story of Texas Flood—more than any other recording by the guitarist—is the story of Stevie Ray. The album stands closest to his personal roots, roots that grew from a loamy mix of deep Southern blues, Texas R&B, and white-boy  rock 'n' roll. It echoes his earliest triumphs as a guitarist, and serves as the triumphant finish-line to a ten-year run of hustling and scuffling that began in 1973, when the Dallas-born, 18-year old left home for the Austin music scene."