Track Listing

1. Scuttlebuttin'
2. Couldn't Stand The Weather
3. Things That I Used To Do
4. Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)
5. Cold Shot
6. Tin Pan Alley
7. Honey Bee
8. Stang's Swang
9. SRV Speaks (previously unreleased)
10. Hide Away (previously unreleased)
11. Look At Little Sister (previously unreleased)
12. Give Me Back My Wig (previously unreleased)
13. Come On (Pt. III) (previously unreleased)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3490 in Music
• Brand: VAUGHAN,STEVIE RAY
• Released on: 1999-03-23
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Extra tracks, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

Album Description
Reissue of 1984 album with 4 bonus tracks. 2001.

Amazon.com essential recording
In a brief interview that precedes this CD's four bonus tracks--all unreleased gems from the original 1984 sessions--Stevie Ray Vaughan makes the point that "music used to be more based on common everyday occurrences like a train's sound going down the track ... a horse walking." Then he comes on with a version of Freddie King's "Hideaway" that chugs like a locomotive. There's also a heretofore unheard slide-guitar-powered "Give Me Back My Wig" and a blueprint of what became Soul to Soul's radio hit "Look at Little Sister." All those follow the improved mixes of the original CD, which include Vaughan's heartbreak chronicles "Couldn't Stand the Weather" and "Cold Shot"; his first jazzer, "Stang's Swang"; and his initial Hendrix outing, "Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)." It's the sound of the guitar hero growing as an artist on his own terms--sidestepping the irony that poisoned '90s rock to stay true to the real-life aesthetic of the blues. --Ted Drozdowski

Customer Reviews

****1/2. Even better with bonus tracks
While not quite matching the greatness of Stevie Ray Vaughan's debut album, "Couldn't Stand The Weather" is a terrific album in its own right.

It opens with one of Vaughan's best instrumentals, the fiery "Scuttle Buttin'", and while some may find that it relys too heavily on covers and instrumentals, Vaughan and the band do very well by W.C. CLark's "Cold Shot" and Eddie 'Guitar Slim' Jones' classic "The Things That I Used To Do".
And Stevie Ray's take on Hendrix's "Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)" works very well also, even if it does resemble the original quite a lot, and the nine-minute "Tin Pan Alley" (which appeared as a shorter bonus cut on the remastered "Texas Flood" CD) is a great example of what Vaughan could do both as a vocalist and a guitarist - with no sustain, fuzztone or overdrive.

The bonus tracks include an early version of "Look At Little Sister" (later to turn up, with added boogie piano, on "Soul To Soul"), a fiery rendition of Freddy King's classic instrumental "Hide Away", and an equally great take on Hound Dog Taylor's best song, "Give Me Back My Wig".
This CD is highly recommended to all lovers of electric blues and blues-rock, and anyone with a liking for innovative, non-hysterical blues and rock guitar. Four-and-a-half big, shiny stars.

Excellent follow-up to an excellent debut.
This is the first SRV album I got and it got me hooked. "Scuttle Buttin'" starts it off and starts it off right. A very high energy, catchy tune that many have tried to imitate with limited success. "Couldn't Stand the Weather" is also good and has a pretty cool video for it, too. My favorite on this one is "Honey Bee." It's a classic-style blues number with great, upbeat writing and one of the best intros I've ever heard. The bonus tracks (five of them) are also a treat for SRV fans, as you get to hear stuff the band recorded, but never released. It also has another excerpt from an interview he did in 1989. This is a very strong follow-up and should be in any blues fan's collection.

P.S. Try to watch live recordings of the band, where you get to see the energy they played with. Check reruns of Austin City Limits, or buy one of the many videos released.

One of their best
Couldn't Stand The Weather is Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble's follow-up to their excellent debut album Texas Flood. While a more diverse album than their debut, this album is a little inconsistent combining some of their best music ever with a few tracks being just decent.

The best tracks are absolutely killer. "Cold Shot", a mid-tempo shuffle, is an excellent track with Stevie Ray singing more subdued than usual. "Tin Pan Alley" is slow blues at its best with one of Stevie Ray's best vocal performances. His guitar playing is impressive throughout with Double Trouble being the perfect backing band playing with equal amounts fire and subtlety. "Stang's Swang" is the first of Vaughan's instrumental jazz tracks and one of the best songs on the album. The title track is one of their best tracks featuring a great riff and an excellent solo by Stevie Ray.

The rest of the album is decent, but not among their best work. Their version of "Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)" is good but doesn't add much to the original. "The Things (That) I Used To Do" is a slow blues they'd perform better on other albums. "Honey Bee" is a decent track but not among their best. The remastered version of the album contains killer versions of "Hideaway" and "Give Me Back My Wig", a dirtier version of "Look At Little Sister" sans the saxophone and keyboards and "Come On (Part III)" which varies little from the version on the Soul To Soul album. A very good album, definitely recommended to all blues fans but they'd record better albums with Texas Flood and In Step.