STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN and Double Trouble — drummer Chris Layton and bassist Tommy Shannon — faced the classic second-album conundrum at the end of 1983. They needed new material quickly, coming off the road from a year of extensive international touring behind Texas Flood, a debut album that included the highlights of their excellent live shows. “We didn’t have all of these songs floating around for most of the band’s life as we did the first time,” Shannon says. “We had to start from scratch.”
The band spent three weeks doing pre-production in an Austin studio writing and recording demos. The excellent outtakes released in later years highlight both the
