![]() I walked in and I thought I had never seen anything like him.Įverybody was really good in that band, but Stevie had this thing I couldnt put my finger on. Their drummer was late and nobody knew me, except Joe, and they got me up to fill in. I went out to see a friend of mine sax player Joe Sublett and they were playing in a band together, Paul Ray and the Cobras. I was from Corpus Christi and came here in 1975 and he came here in 1972. In 1972, he briefly joined the rock band Krackerjack and it was there he first met future Double Trouble band member Tommy Shannon, who had already seen the teenage Vaughan play guitar a few months earlier at The Fog nightclub in Dallas. The legend of Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble was born Like most overnight sensations, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Troubles massive success when Texas Flood was released, on June 13, 1983, was a long time coming and not without a few technical hiccups along the way.Īll three band members Layton, Vaughan and bassist Tommy Shannon had played in countless bands on the Texan circuit for many years, before eventually joining forces to create the ultimate power trio, which is still seen by many as the benchmark of modern blues. Theyd see international rock icons fall at their feet, sign a record deal with one of the biggest labels in the US and release the landmark album Texas Flood, which dragged the blues kicking and screaming into the 1980s. Over the course of the next 12 months, their fortunes would be completely transformed.
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