Texas Flood was the first solo album of Texan guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan and his double-headed Double Trouble band. Vaughan's debut album featured as a bomb with blues lovers in his performance in 1983.
The album featured blues classics such as Mary Had a Little Lamb of Buddy Guy and Texas Flood of Larry Davis, the song that would later be associated with Vaughan than Davis. But the vast majority of the album consisted of self-written songs like the popular Pride and Joy and Love Struck Baby, the technically impressive Rude Mood and Lenny, assigned an instrumental ballad to his wife.
In just a few years the album went platinum and made Vaughan get the respect of his fellow blues performers. The album could be recorded thanks to the help of Jackson Browne. Browne and Vaughan got to know each other in 1982 at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland where Vaughan became the first artist without a record contract. Although the audience, largely enthusiasts of traditional blues, Vaughan and Double Trouble, found Browne that played the band fantastically. After the performance, he offered his recording studio where Vaughan and his companions were free to include the songs that would eventually form Texas Flood.
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