Love Struck Baby

Album: Texas Flood (1983)
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Songfacts®:

  • Apparently channeling the ghost of Chuck Berry, SRV and Double Trouble (backing band for Stevie and others) released this jukebox-friendly single on Stevie's first studio album. While the song has received heavy airplay, it didn't get any love from the charts. The music video, the only one from this album, got heavy rotation on MTV in 1983, who were starved for content.
  • Texas Flood was recorded in just three days over a Thanksgiving weekend at Jackson Browne's Los Angeles studio. Browne caught SRV and Double Trouble at the Montreux Jazz Festival in July 1982 and invited them over to record for free.
  • During concert performances, Vaughn would usually play part of the solo with the guitar behind his head, among other stage hijinks. That's what common-time, fast tempo, 12-bar blues songs are for, after all!

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