SRV’s Flood

guitar music might be today if Stevie Ray Vaughan hadn’t come along in 1983. When SRV and Double Trouble released that year, radio was dominated by synth-pop and hair-metal acts. It seemed unlikely that an electric blues album was going to change anything, let alone make a dent in the charts. But that’s began climbing the charts shortly after its June 13 release that year, while the video for the latter track became an MTV staple. Touring the U.S. in support of the album, SRV and Double Trouble saw attendance at their shows quickly grow.