[SACD-R][OF] Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble - Couldn’t Stand The Weather - 1984 (Blues Rock)

Stevie Ray Vaughan – guitar, vocals
Tommy Shannon – bass
Chris Layton – drums

Additional personnel:
Jimmie Vaughan – rhythm guitar on “Couldn’t Stand the Weather” & “The Things That I Used to Do”
Fran Christina – drums on “Stang’s Swang”
Stan Harrison – tenor saxophone on “Stang’s Swang”

It doesn’t get any better than this! SRV & Double Trouble are right in my room, it seems, when I play this disc, the sound is absolutely amazing! ~CDJapan.

Vaughan’s sophomore album broils with authority & intensity & has never sounded better.

Like the destructive tornado on the album’s cover, Stevie Ray Vaughan’s Couldn’t Stand The Weather blows with gale-force intensity, moves everything in its path & contains beautiful moments of calm at its centre. Caught up in the momentum gained from his brilliant debut, the guitar slinger comes on with a startling degree of authority, confidence & swagger that hadn’t been witnessed in the blues realm in decades. At last, this incredible tour de force has finally been done right. Vaughan’s trademark Fender Stratocaster has never sounded more lifelike, powerful or authentic.

AllMusic:
Stevie Ray Vaughan’s 2nd album, Couldn’t Stand the Weather, pretty much did everything a 2nd album should do: it confirmed that the acclaimed debut was no fluke, while matching, if not bettering, the sales of its predecessor, thereby cementing Vaughan’s status as a giant of modern blues. So why does it feel like a letdown? Perhaps because it simply offers more of the same, all the while relying heavily on covers. Of the 8 songs, half are covers, while two2 of his 4 originals are instrumentals — not necessarily a bad thing, but it gives the impression that Vaughan threw the album together in a rush, even if he didn’t. Nevertheless, Couldn’t Stand the Weather feels a bit like a holding pattern, since there’s no elaboration on Double Trouble’s core sound & no great strides forward, whether it’s in Vaughan’s songwriting or musicianship. Still, as holding patterns go, it’s a pretty enjoyable 1, since Vaughan & Double Trouble play spiritedly throughout the record.
With its swaggering, stuttering riff, the title track ranks as 1 of Vaughan’s classics, & thanks to a nuanced vocal, he makes W.C. Clark’s “Cold Shot” his own. The instrumentals — the breakneck Lonnie Mack-styled “Scuttle Buttin'” & “Stang’s Swang,” another effective demonstration of Vaughan’s jazz inclinations — work well, even if the original shuffle “Honey Bee” fails to make much of an impression & the cover of “Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)” is too reminiscent of Jimi Hendrix’s original. So, there aren’t many weaknesses on the record, aside from the suspicion that Vaughan didn’t really push himself as hard as he could have, & the feeling that if he had, he would have come up with something a bit stronger.

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