Through the early 1980s Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble played the Texas club circuit becoming one of the most popular bands in the area. In 1982 the band played the Montreux Jazz Festival and their performance caught the attention of David Bowie and Jackson Browne. After Double Trouble’s performance Bowie asked Vaughan to play on his forthcoming album Let’s Dance, which with Stevie’s lead guitar on six of the eight songs, became Bowie’s best selling record to date. After an after hours jam in the artists bar Jackson Browne offered the group free recording time at his Downtown Studio in Los Angeles. Shortly afterward legendary producer John Hammond landed Vaughan and Double Trouble a record contract with Epic, and the band recorded its debut album in two days over the Thanksgiving weekend at Downtown Studios. Vaughan’s debut album Texas Flood was released in the summer of 1983, a few months after Bowie’s Let’s Dance appeared. Publicity over Stevie’s management pulling him from Bowie’s 1983 world tour in order to support Vaughan’s own record earned him quite a bit of attention, but Texas Flood was a blockbuster blues success receiving positive reviews in both blues and rock publications, reaching number 38 on the charts and crossing over to album rock radio stations. Vaughan and Double Trouble set off on a successful tour and quickly recorded their second album Couldn’t Stand the Weather, which was released in May of 1984. The album was more successful than its predecessor, reaching number 31 on the charts, by the end of 1985 the album went gold. Double Trouble added keyboardist Reese Wynans in 1985, before they recorded their third album Soul to Soul. The record was released in September 1985 and was also quite successful reaching number 34 on the charts.
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26 апр 2024
