The resulting album, " Texas Flood" landed SRV on the charts and in the public consciousness.
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Cee remembered, "Jackson said to Stevie, 'Please come to my house and you can record an album for free in my studio.' We had no money for recording or mastering or anything else at the time, so this was a God-send." The result? A demo recorded in three days which somehow made it into the hands of record producer, John Hammond who discovered Aretha Franklin, Bob Dylan, Billie Holiday, Benny Goodman, Count Basie and Bruce Springsteen amongst many others. Jackson Browne-and this is a crucial moment in the evolution of SRV-told Stevie at Montreux that "the people who were booing you, will be applauding you someday soon." Then Browne offered an escape hatch to Stevie, who again, had little money at the time. This style of blues guitar is really exciting, and will launch your blues guitar playing to a new level. Here’s a common phrase used during that solo in 3rd Degree. Many of his licks are fiery, bluesy, and outright dirty This is the blues at it’s finest. In Montreux, SRV got to meet many music industry execs and stars such as Jackson Browne and David Bowie (later, Bowie would ask Stevie Ray to play on tour with him and on the wildly popular Bowie song, " China Girl"). Johnny makes excellent use of the minor pentatonic scale in many of his solos. It's funny how sometimes what seems like a bad thing in life can turn out to be a great thing in the end. It was like you don't hear the fundamental until next Tuesday (laughingly)." ("Good reverb," I tried wittily interjecting.) "A little too good. He used to play at Blossoms downstairs in Fort Worth but I think the first time I saw him was in the Will Rogers Auditorium where they have the rodeo and it was the worst sounding room in the world. I never did meet him but saw many times, of course. I thought since we're remembering him today, I thought that might be a good one to remember him with. You know, it was just one of those things that you just know that him and Jimmie ( Jimmie Vaughn, SRV's brother) would've just gone on and toured with that song and it would've catapulted both of them. We just did " Tick Tock" (my favorite SRV song after " Texas Flood") and the first time I heard that song was at the coverage of his funeral. And I don't even like to say things like that because people say 'Yeah, sure,' but he was a big inspiration to me."īuddy Whittington: "When I go down to Austin and see that statue, I think that's a pretty good day's work for a guy from Oak Cliff to end up like that.
And I'm not big on vibes and auras and stuff like that but I swear on everything that's holy to me that when Stevie walked up to me he radiated a light, he had an aura about him. So about two months before his death, Stevie's playing in Dallas at Fair Park, I take his watch to him, get backstage and he's very amused that I'm even there bringing him his watch-he was very polite, a very sweet, soft-spoken man. Quick follow-up: Stevie never came back for that watch at my dad's jewelry shop. Those were his exact words, 'Keep it clean' and I'm gettin' a chill hearing those words again. (I asked Suhler what this meant as in clean guitar with no effects.) No, no he was in recovery at that time and I think that is where the richest part of his legacy is as great as his music was, it was to help people out of the darkness, he was kinda a ray of light for a lot of people and continues to be and I think that was the coolest thing about his whole story. Then, my dad said to Stevie, 'Well, do you have any advice for my son, he's a musician too?' At the time I was mortified my dad would ask that question but Stevie Ray said, 'Yeah, keep it clean.' Which is good advice. He and my dad started talking, I was 28 and playing guitar not doin' much but trying to figure it out and it turned out in the conversation that we had some Vaughns as cousins from Oak Cliff (a Dallas neighborhood that spawned SRV) including a Jim Vaughn but as they talked, it turned out there was no relation. (Spoken with the kind of severe disappointment only another guitar shredder could have.) My dad owned and operated a jewelry store in Dallas for close to 50 years and in the summer of 1989, Stevie came in the store to have a watch repaired and obviously, I knew who he was. The simple and the great in one chair, one guitar.Jim Suhler: "I met Stevie Ray a couple of times, saw him play six or eight times but never got to play with him.
Here we see an absolute Legend carrying the music. The results of never giving up, playing something everyday. That’s love right there people! Rest in peace, Johnny! Your spirit definitely lives on!
He knows he’s in the presence of greatness! His real-life hero right there on stage. I love how Derek Trucks seems to just watch Johnny and smile.
Johnny Winter – Highway 61 Revisited, Live at Crossroads Festival, 2007.
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