Scratch My Back

Stevie Ray Vaughan featuring Lou Ann Barton - Scratch My Back

"The Legendary Lost First Stevie Ray Vaughan Album" recorded in Nashville, Tennessee at Jack Clemont's Belmont Studio, early 1978

Stevie Ray Vaughn: Guitar
Jack Newhouse: Bass
Chris Layton: Drums
Lou Ann Barton: Vocals

Ah baby, scratch my back ...

Rude Mood

Stevie Ray Vaughan - Rude Mood.

Not a single comment, rude or otherwise. Don't you guys know what to do when mom's on vacation and ya have the house (or blog) all to yourselves?

Third Stone From The Sun

Stevie Ray Vaughan - Third Stone from the Sun

Texas Flood

Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble with Texas Flood live at Rockpalast.

Things That I Used To Do

Stevie Ray Vaughan and The Fabulous Thunderbirds with Things That I Used To Do, live on the River Boat Queen, 1988.

Raining today at the cozy cottage on the coast. Only thing this place doesn't have is a fireplace or a wood stove to keep the damp outta the air. Fireplace, wood stove, pellet stove - they are on the list of things I must have no matter where I end up living.

Tis early in the storm and it is not a hard rain but is too much to be considered a drizzle. Is soft like a drizzle tho. Before it started raining, I had two big fat jays along with some little chickadees - birds I had at the feeder at the little cottage by the creek in the redwoods - at the bird feeder I hung outside the kitchen window today. Have 4 jay feathers I found my first full day here on the table. Feels right cozy - other than that no fireplace thang :)

May I Have a Talk With You

Stevie Ray Vaughan - May I Have a Talk With You

Texas Flood

Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble at Rockpalast (Germany) with Texas Flood.

SRV was dang near plucking out his guitar strings in this concert. I wonder if it was his first tour after being boo'd at Montreux? Looks like he rearranged his guitar strap from Texas Flood and dove into one of my favorite SRV songs - Things That I Used To Do - not sure why the camera does that long cut away to the eye candy of the area around the concert - better eye candy on the stage.

Pride And Joy

Stevie Ray Vaughan live at Montreux with Pride And Joy. This was the 1985 tour - not the 1982 tour where he was booed (and also won a Grammy for the CD of that show).

Hideaway/Rude Mood

Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble peforming Hideaway and Rude Mood, live At Montreux, 1982.

Fork, I had a busy Tuesday nite. Was hosting the live blog threads from the primaries yesterday from about 8:30 (PST) . In addition to my regularly scheduled Late Late Nite post. I ended up hosting 3 threads.

Gotta admit to feeling like a little dog running with the big dogs when doing anything other than a Late Late Nite post but ... I did and I think it was successful. Oy, where's the aspirin? (laughing)

I Won

I won this CD last night during KPIG's Fresh Pork segment. I was the correct caller when the second song from this CD was played and I won! I am so jazzed!!! (as CT would say) KPIG has been playing two songs from it every night this week and I really wanted to win - the ear candy on this is awesome.

From Amazon's editor review of the CD:

The blues-rock guitar hero's studio vaults were nearly empty when he died in an August 27, 1990, helicopter crash. This set unearths a 1978 Austin session track of "You Can Have My Husband" with Vaughan as second fiddle to his then girlfriend, singer Lou Ann Barton, but it's undistinguished compared to the previously unreleased live performances that compose this disc's heart. Vaughan contributes teeth-baring pentatonic solos to Lonnie Mack's "Oreo Cookie Blues" at Atlanta's Fox Theatre in 1986 and brings his bullish tone to the late blues piano stomper Katie Webster's "On the Run" at the 1988 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. Bonnie Raitt's distinctively keening slide adds elegance to a "Texas Flood" from Bumbershoot 1985 in Seattle, and when Stevie's older sibling Jimmie Vaughan stops by Saturday Night Live to play rhythm on a 1985 "Change It," li'l bro' squeezes out screaming fireworks. But the best cut's a breathtaking '88 Jazz Fest slugfest with Texas Telecaster blaster Albert Collins that's jammed with howling, shaken notes and machine-gun riffing. Both are in top form. The rest is culled from Vaughan's guest appearances on others' releases or previous retrospectives and include matches with blues godfathers B.B. King and Albert King, as well as Johnny Copeland and A.C. Reed, Jeff Beck, Austin barrelhouser Marcia Ball, surf guitar king Dick Dale, and David Bowie, whose "Let's Dance" introduced Vaughan to the mainstream in 1983. --Ted Drozdowski

I bolded the reason I wanted this CD - here is the UTube for that slugfest.



UPDATE 4pm: Got 3.68" inches since midnight. Creek is rising about a foot an hour but it is also pushing that water out pretty dayam fast and I'm still high and dry.