Couldn't Stand the Weather

During January 1984, Vaughan and Double Trouble spent 19 days at the Power Station recording studio in New York City. John Hammond was executive producer and supervised the sessions.{{harvnb|Album notes|March 1999|p=5}}{{harvnb|Prial|June 2006|p=298}} The album was produced by the band along with Richard Mullen and Jim Capfer. The album was engineered by Mullen and Rob Eaton. Graphic artist Holland MacDonald designed the album cover art with assistance from Shostal Associates for the tornado image, a photograph of the 1957 Fargo tornado.{{harvnb|Album notes|March 1999|p=4}}

{{Music ratings

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|rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{harvnb|Allmusic|2009}}

|rev2 = Christgau's Record Guide

|rev2Score = B+{{harvnb|Christgau|2005}}

|rev4 = Entertainment Weekly

|rev4Score = B+{{harvnb|Schinder|April 1999}}

|rev3 = The Encyclopedia of Popular Music

|rev3Score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite book|last=Larkin|first=Colin|author-link=Colin Larkin|title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music|year=2007|publisher=Oxford University Press|edition=4th|isbn=978-0195313734|title-link=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music}}

|rev6 = MusicHound Rock

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|rev8 = The Rolling Stone Album Guide

|rev8Score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}{{cite book|first1= Mark |last1= Coleman |last2= Ryan |first2= Chris |editor1-first= Nathan |editor1-last= Brackett |editor2-first= Christian |editor2-last= Hoard |year= 2004 |title= The Rolling Stone Album Guide |edition= 4th |chapter= AC/DC |page= [https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac/page/4 4] |publisher= Simon & Schuster |isbn= 0-7432-0169-8}}

|rev5 = The Great Rock Discography

|rev5Score = 6/10{{cite book |last1=Strong |first1=Martin C. |title=The Great Rock Discography |date=2004 |publisher=Canongate |location=New York |page=1611 |ol=18807297M |edition=7th}}

|rev7 = The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings

|rev7score = {{Rating|4|4}}{{cite book |last1=Russell |first1=Tony |last2=Smith |first2=Chris |title=The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings |year=2006 |edition=|publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-0-140-51384-4|page=667}}

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The album was another commercial success for Stevie Ray Vaughan, selling 1,000,000 copies within five weeks. In a retrospective review, Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic wrote: "

{{blockquote|Stevie Ray Vaughan's second album, Couldn't Stand the Weather, pretty much did everything a second 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{{nbsp}}... [However,] Vaughan didn't really push himself as hard as he could have, and the feeling that if he had, he would have come up with something a bit stronger.{{Cite web|title=Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble: Couldn't Stand the Weather – Review|website=AllMusic |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/couldnt-stand-the-weather-mw0000196175|access-date=April 29, 2020}}}}

Robert Christgau wrote in his review that "Though he comes close sometimes, this Texan ain't Hendrix. But between earned Jimi cover and lyric refreshment, album two is almost everything a reasonable person might hope from him: a roadhouse album with gargantuan sonic imagination."{{Cite web|title=Robert Christgau: CG: Artist 2137|url=http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist2.php?id=2137|website=www.robertchristgau.com|access-date=May 20, 2020}}

Details are taken from the 1984 Epic Records album liner notes;{{cite AV media notes|title=Couldn't Stand the Weather |others=Stevie Ray Vaughan|type=Liner notes|year=1984|publisher=Epic Records|id=FE 39304|at=LP labels}} reissues show several different songwriter credits.

{{Track listing

| headline = Side 1

| title1 = Scuttle Buttin{{'-}}

| note1 =

| writer1 = Stevie Ray Vaughan

| length1 = 1:49

| title2 = Couldn't Stand the Weather

| note2 =

| writer2 = Vaughan

| length2 = 4:40

| title3 = The Things (That) I Used to Do

| note3 =

| writer3 = Eddie Jones {{a.k.a.}} Guitar Slim

| length3 = 4:53

| title4 = Voodoo Child (Slight Return)

| note4 =

| writer4 = Jimi Hendrix

| length4 = 7:58

}}

{{Track listing

| headline = Side 2

| title1 = Cold Shot

| note1 =

| writer1 = K. Kendrid, {{arr.}} VaughanReissues list Michael Kindred and W. C. Clark

| length1 = 3:57

| title2 = Tin Pan Alley

| note2 =

| writer2 = Robert GeddinsReissues list Robert Geddins

| length2 = 9:10

| title3 = Honey Bee

| note3 =

| writer3 = Vaughan

| length3 = 2:40

| title4 = Stang's Swang

| note4 =

| writer4 = Vaughan

| length4 = 2:41

}}

{{Track listing

| headline =

| title9 = SRV Speaks

| writer9 =

| length9 = 1:08

| title10 = Hide Away

| writer10 = Freddie King, Sonny Thompson

| length10 = 4:04

| title11 = Look at Little Sister

| writer11 = Hank Ballard

| length11 = 2:46

| title12 = Give Me Back My Wig

| writer12 = T. R. Taylor a.k.a. Hound Dog Taylor

| length12 = 4:07

| title13 = Come On (Part III)

| writer13 = Earl King

| length13 = 4:33

}}

"SRV Speaks" is from a studio interview with Timothy White for Westwood One Radio. The remaining bonus tracks are studio outtakes from the sessions for the album.

{{Track listing

| headline = Disc 1 – bonus tracks

| title9 = Empty Arms

| note9 =

| writer9 = Vaughan

| length9 = 3:28

| title10 = Come On (Part III)

| note10 =

| writer10 = King

| length10 = 4:33

| title11 = Look at Little Sister

| note11 =

| writer11 = Ballard

| length11 = 2:46

| title12 = The Sky Is Crying

| note12 =

| writer12 = Elmore James

| length12 = 4:12

| title13 = Hide Away

| note13 =

| writer13 = King, Thompson

| length13 = 4:03

| title14 = Give Me Back My Wig

| note14 =

| writer14 = Taylor

| length14 = 4:08

| title15 = Boot Hill

| note15 =

| writer15 = UnknownOriginally recorded in 1958–1959 by the little-known Sly Williams

| length15 = 2:23

| title16 = Wham!

| note16 =

| writer16 = Lonnie Mack

| length16 = 2:27

| title17 = Close to You

| note17 =

| writer17 = Willie Dixon

| length17 = 3:11

| title18 = Little Wing

| note18 =

| writer18 = Hendrix

| length18 = 6:49

| title19 = Stang Swang

| note19 =

| writer19 = Vaughan

| length19 = 2:44

}}

{{Track listing

| headline = Disc 2 – live in Montreal

| title1 = Testify

| note1 =

| writer1 = The Isley Brothers

| length1 = 4:37

| title2 = Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)

| note2 =

| writer2 = Hendrix

| length2 = 11:53

| title3 = The Things (That) I Used To Do

| note3 =

| writer3 = Jones

| length3 = 5:30

| title4 = Honey Bee

| note4 =

| writer4 = Vaughan

| length4 = 2:33

| title5 = Couldn't Stand the Weather

| note5 =

| writer5 = Vaughan

| length5 = 4:53

| title6 = Cold Shot

| note6 =

| writer6 = Michael Kindred, W. C. Clark

| length6 = 4:05

| title7 = Tin Pan Alley" (a.k.a. "The Roughest Place in Town)

| note7 =

| writer7 = Robert Geddins

| length7 = 10:30

| title8 = Love Struck Baby

| note8 =

| writer8 = Vaughan

| length8 = 3:01

| title9 = Texas Flood

| note9 =

| writer9 = Larry Davis, Joseph Wade Scott

| length9 = 8:21

| title10 = Band Intros/Encores

| note10 =

| writer10 =

| length10 = 1:18

| title11 = Stang's Swang

| note11 =

| writer11 = Vaughan

| length11 = 3:07

| title12 = Lenny

| note12 =

| writer12 = Vaughan

| length12 = 11:07

| title13 = Pride and Joy

| note13 =

| writer13 = Vaughan

| length13 = 4:59

}}

Double Trouble

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

Additional personnel

• Jimmie Vaughan – rhythm guitar on "Couldn't Stand the Weather" and "The Things That I Used to Do"
• Fran Christina – drums on "Stang's Swang"
• Stan Harrison – tenor saxophone on "Stang's Swang"

Production

• Producers – Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble, Richard Mullen, Jim Capfer
• Executive producer – John H. Hammond
• Engineer – Richard Mullen
• Assistant engineer – Rob Eaton
• Cover art – Holland MacDonald
• Photography – Benno Friedman

1999 reissue

• Producer – Bob Irwin
• Executive producer – Tony Martell
• Mastering engineer – Vic Anesini
• Tracks 10–13 mixed by Danny Kadar
• Dialogue edited by Darcy Proper
• Research assistants – George Deahl, Al Quaglieri, Matthew Kelly, Jon Naatjes
• Art director – Josh Cheuse
• Editorial director – Andy Schwartz
• Liner notes – Bill Milkowski

2010 Legacy Edition issue

• Photography – Jean Krettler, Robert Matheu, James Minchen III
• Liner notes – Andy Aledort

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• {{cite magazine|date=August 20, 1984|title=This Week on TV|magazine=Der Spiegel|issue=34|page=160|location=Hamburg, Germany|url=http://wissen.spiegel.de/wissen/image/show.html?did=65917382&aref=image040/2009/07/01/cq-sp198403401580160.pdf|access-date=March 2, 2011|ref=CITEREFDer_SpiegelAugust_1984|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120314044110/http://wissen.spiegel.de/wissen/image/show.html?did=65917382&aref=image040%2F2009%2F07%2F01%2Fcq-sp198403401580160.pdf|archive-date=March 14, 2012}}
• {{cite news|title=Stevie Ray Vaughan, Guitarist, at Carnegie Hall|first=Stephen|last=Holden|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/10/08/arts/pop-stevie-ray-vaughan-guitarist-at-carnegie-hall.html|newspaper=The New York Times|date=October 8, 1984|access-date=March 2, 2011|ref=CITEREFThe_New_York_TimesOctober_1984}}
• {{cite book|last=Kitts|first=Jeff|title=Guitar World Presents Stevie Ray Vaughan: From the Pages of Guitar World|location=Milwaukee, Wisconsin|date=September 1, 1997|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Mf6L5Q3_62IC|isbn=978-0-7935-8080-4|ref=CITEREFKittsSeptember_1997}}
• {{cite AV media notes|title=Couldn't Stand the Weather|others=Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble|year=1999|type=booklet|publisher=Epic Records|id=65871|location=New York City|ref=CITEREFAlbum_notesMarch_1999}}
• {{cite magazine|last=Schinder|first=Scott|date=April 2, 1999|title=Studio Album Reissues|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|issue=479|url=http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,272922,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080513231743/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,272922,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=May 13, 2008|access-date=February 24, 2011|ref=CITEREFSchinderApril_1999}}
• {{cite book|last=Gregory|first=Hugh|title=Roadhouse Blues: Stevie Ray Vaughan and Texas R&B|publisher=Backbeat Books|date=August 1, 2003|location=Milwaukee, Wisconsin|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iWkzJssSXcEC|isbn=978-0-87930-747-9|ref=CITEREFGregoryAugust_2003}}
• {{cite book|last=Dickerson|first=James|title=The Fabulous Vaughan Brothers: Jimmie and Stevie Ray|publisher=Taylor Trade Publishing|date=September 25, 2004|location = Lanham, Maryland|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NrAOD3qhANAC&q=the+fabulous+vaughan+brothers|isbn=978-1-58979-116-9|ref=CITEREFDickersonSeptember_2004}}
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• {{cite book|last=Prial|first=Dunstan|title=The Producer: John Hammond and the Soul of American Music|publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux|date=June 27, 2006|location=New York City|url=https://archive.org/details/producerjohnhamm00pria|url-access=registration|isbn=978-0-374-11304-9|ref=CITEREFPrialJune_2006}}
• {{Cite web|title=Couldn't Stand the Weather – Review|work=AllMusic|year=2009|url=http://allmusic.com/album/couldnt-stand-the-weather-r21044/review|access-date=March 4, 2011|ref=CITEREFAllmusic2009}}

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