“Texas Flood” by Stevie Ray Vaughan
Vaughan started a revolution. It wasn’t that he was playing anything new. Heck, he was just playing traditional blues music and blues runs borrowed from his predecessors. No, it wasn’t what he played, but HOW he played it. It was his unparalleled intensity. It was his ability to shake and bend the strings that drove millions of players back to the basics found in the blues. It was as if he was an open channel to all the blues greats of the past. He, and he alone, revived blues music for years to come. “Texas Flood” was the slow blues song that first found the ears of the masses and exposed his soul-wrenching solos.
Intro
Although “Texas Flood” has three verses of lyrics, the song is more of a prolonged guitar solo, allowing Vaughan to show off his characteristic electric blues style. Stylistically, “Texas Flood” is structured around the common three-chord blues
progression. Written and performed in the key of G (which sounded in F# because Vaughan tuned his guitar half a step down), it is in 12/8 time, or compound time, which gives it a “slow-burning” feel that is common in Texas blues.
Intro
