Couldn’t Stand the Weather | Stevie Ray Vaughan

In 1984  Stevie Ray Vaughn and Double Trouble released their second album, Couldn’t Stand the Weather. Different from the three day trip to the studio when they recorded their debut that was meant to be a demo, this album was designed as an album and was worked on as such. There are so many good tracks on the album, but a favorite of mine is the title track.

Guitar World did a write up on the album that included a little trivia on the opening riff…

When Vaughan’s brother Jimmie dropped by to play a rhythm guitar part on “Couldn’t Stand the Weather,” he suggested putting in a longer pause between statements of the opening riff. Stevie liked the idea. While the tape was rolling, he simply put his finger to his lips after they’d played the riff for the third time, waited two-and-a-half extra beats, and then cued the band to come back in. This take—cut with no prior rehearsal of the break—was the keeper. “It took us a little by surprise,” Layton says, “but we were so tight at that time that he could have made [the pause] five and six one-hundredths of a beat and we’d have been right there.”

When Stevie comes ripping  in with the clean tone after that tight intro, that is the type of thing that makes you realize why this man is so important to what has happened in the guitar community.

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Guitar World write up.

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MusicLee

MusicLee picked up the guitar in the late 80s to go with the hair that made him stick out in small town Iowa. Initially enamored with all things rock, he later developed a love for the blues.

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