THE FIRST BROADCAST
by STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN
Compact Disc
WKMCD011
Label: WICKER MAN
At the time of the performance captured on this CD - 22nd July 1980 - Stevie Ray Vaughan had yet to release any records under his own name. He did however possess a rock-solid grounding as a live performer, having formed his first band, The Chantones, fifteen years earlier in Dallas, Texas, at the tender age of 10! • Up until the late 1970’s, in Dallas - and later Austin - Stevie Ray honed his skills with a series of local acts including Cast of Thousands, Blackbird, Crackerjack and Marc Benno and the Nightcrawlers. • In the later 1970’s he appeared on three 7” singles (Other Days, My Song and Blow, Joe, Blow) with popular Austin band, Paul Ray and the Cobras. During occasional absences by Paul, it would be Stevie who stepped up to deputise on vocals and guitar. Soon Stevie decided to quit - Paul took it philosophically, and told him: “you’re a front man now. You don’t need to be in somebody else’s band”. • Soon SRV had formed his own five-piece, Double Trouble (named after the Otis Rush song). By the time of this recording the group had been whittled down to a power trio with Stevie Ray on guitar and vocals, bassist Jackie Newhouse and drummer Chris Layton, who was recruited in September 1978. • Although Stevie Ray Vaughan would become a prolific songwriter, the set he performed on this mid-summer evening more than 40- years ago, includes just two of his own compositions, ‘I’m Cryin’’ and ‘Love Struck Baby’. Both of these songs would subsequently appear on his first album, Texas Flood first released in 1983; the latter song was also issued as a single that same year. The other songs in the set are drawn from the catalogues of Stevie’s blues heroes. • This fabulous radio broadcast comes from The King’s Head Inn, a tiny venue popular with students near the Old Dominion University campus, in Norfolk, Virginia, that could accommodate barely 100 people. Luckily, local radio station WNOR was on hand to preserve this storming performance by the soon-to-become-legendary Blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan.
1. Hideaway 3:52
2. Love Me Darlin’ 4:21
3. Tin Pan Alley 9:41
4. Love Struck Baby 3:06
5. I’m Cryin’ 4:12
6. Texas Flood 9:47
7. I’m leaving you 6:07
8. Little Wing 4:39
9. Driving South 6:10
