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when_i_go_deaf) wrote2007-08-13 06:07 am
when_i_go_deaf) wrote2007-08-13 06:07 am
Albums In The Day: The Records Of My Life - Pt. 4
(We get two today since I ran out of time yesterday)
Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble - In Step (1989)
When I was growing up my Dad always played two tapes on the deck in his truck: one tape of Todd Rundgren's old band Taste, and the other was a tape of two guys he had seen play in Madison in the mid-80's. One side was some blues singing dude named Robert Cray, the other was this guy named Stevie Ray Vaughan. Riding around town with my Dad listening to Vaughan wail on his guitar, singing about being a voodoo child and about cold shots and walking down Tin Pan Alley, all a kid can sit there and say is "heh, neat". Come to be about 1990, my Dad added another tape to the rotation. It was Vaughan's latest at the time, some record called In Step. He threw it on his tape deck, the first chords of "The House Is Rockin'" came on, and you were hooked. Though everyone knows "The House Is Rockin'", it's actually one of Vaughan's weaker tracks. "Crossfire", "Tightrope", the Buddy Guy cover "Leave My Little Girl Alone", "Wall Of Denial", and the all-on-the-first-take closer "Riveria Paradise" stand as some of Vaughan's best playing and singing. Vaughan would die in a helicopter crash at Alpine Valley that fall, which bummed out my Dad and I quite a bit, but at least the man left some damn fine tunes for us to remember him by.
Give It A Try:
"The House Is Rockin'"
"Tightrope"
"Crossfire"
"Love Me Darlin'"
"Wall Of Denial"
Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble - In Step (1989)
When I was growing up my Dad always played two tapes on the deck in his truck: one tape of Todd Rundgren's old band Taste, and the other was a tape of two guys he had seen play in Madison in the mid-80's. One side was some blues singing dude named Robert Cray, the other was this guy named Stevie Ray Vaughan. Riding around town with my Dad listening to Vaughan wail on his guitar, singing about being a voodoo child and about cold shots and walking down Tin Pan Alley, all a kid can sit there and say is "heh, neat". Come to be about 1990, my Dad added another tape to the rotation. It was Vaughan's latest at the time, some record called In Step. He threw it on his tape deck, the first chords of "The House Is Rockin'" came on, and you were hooked. Though everyone knows "The House Is Rockin'", it's actually one of Vaughan's weaker tracks. "Crossfire", "Tightrope", the Buddy Guy cover "Leave My Little Girl Alone", "Wall Of Denial", and the all-on-the-first-take closer "Riveria Paradise" stand as some of Vaughan's best playing and singing. Vaughan would die in a helicopter crash at Alpine Valley that fall, which bummed out my Dad and I quite a bit, but at least the man left some damn fine tunes for us to remember him by.
Give It A Try:
"The House Is Rockin'"
"Tightrope"
"Crossfire"
"Love Me Darlin'"
"Wall Of Denial"