Texas Flood / Larry Davis

[EddieHazel74]

Man, why have i never heard larry davis before?!?! This is excellent!

[BELEMGER]

SRV take this song to the limit till make it perfect !!!!

[SLASHdaROCKER]

What ever happened to Black Music? Seriously, it used to be the best! Ray Charles, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Chuck Berry, Robert Johnson, Etta James, Miles Davis, T-Bone Walker, Larry Davis, Willie Dixon, Albert King...

Now we have Beyonce, Usher, Kanye, Lil' Wayne, and many other cRAPpers and people claiming to be RnB.

[GeoffreyTMusic]

I love going through blues linage finding who played what and when. It's great to see how much the music has changed but at the heart it has remained constant.

[guitarandharp]

This is just great..I bought it on a superb album entitled These Kind Of Blues, issued in Britain right at the tail end of the late 1960s Blues Boom. What an album...and what a fine record this is, just perfect.

[tremold2043]

damn.. i don't know which version i like better this or srv's

[tjb2693]

superb

[Strat0Blues]

Love it, just love it. This is so good it makes my teeth chatter : D

[graycloud057]

I wish it was RAINING down in Texas. Dry as sin there.

[guitarthroat]

It's funny hearing this, I always knew it was a cover. You can really hear how much Stevie learned to sing listening to this man. And phrase on the guitar. Pretty awesome.

[Cowboy13ebop]

phenomenal.

[drstrangelove09]

Wow!!!

[YoCyrus87]

They should just ban comments from Youtube. All i can say is Haters stands for having anger for everyone reaching success.

[jmj5150]

Even Jimi Hendrix wasn't original he was just the first to go mainstream commercial.

[tkdGU]

It's nonsense to complain about blues artists being copy-cats. How many of you complainers play only your own music and never anything else? People usually learn by playing others' songs and when they get good they continue to do so just because they love the stuff other artists put out. Don't consider it a rip-off, consider it a tribute. Besides, music is more than lyrics, or else it would just be poetry.

[flyinv1967]

how else can SRV's voice come out except the way he's singing?

[TheRealWanDeezy]

call me ignorant, but i thought this was an SRV original till now, wow but i love this too!! both are great, glad i can finally pay respect to the original!!

[DancingOwl]

One of the first Duke label 45's I found in Houston on my first blues record hunting trip in 1966. Lyons Avenue and Lockwood Drive were fantastic places to go record hunting with several great record stores, lots of thrift shops and bars and dives too numerous to count. By then Fenton Robinson, who plays guitar on this cut, was already in Chicago, I think, but Hop Wilson and Lightnin' were still very active, lots of others too, many unknown.

[gitfiddlejim]

The blues is full of unknowns, great talents never got the exposure deserve, their original unique style & talent never became influenced by commercial pressure to have a No1, or go Showbiz blues . We have vastly inferior immitators lauded as international guitar gods. Funny ole world aint it. We have to suffer BBC 2 radio shows playing bad copiesof the original track,, why not play the original , it would be a better show, the blues would be better served, attract new enthusiasts.

[pastyourhorizon]

Oooooh I'm so damn glad to hear the original. Doesn't matter how great any guitar player can be because time can't ever be beaten.

[scoured62]

all great bluesmen gave tribute to others great bluesmen, so what the problem with SRV ? ALL HIS tribute ARE TOO MUCH AWESOME!!!!!

[colemontelongo]

anyone heard Alber King's "Rainin' in California" ... ? ... ". . . all the hot wires are down. . . " cant find it on youtube, but I wonder who wrote it first. SRV jacks the solo note4note from King. Still, covers are a blues tradition. I'm a Texan and proud that we got a statue of him down the st. from the state capital, but he was definitely a better guitarist before he went sober. straight up

[gitfiddlejim]

@colemontelongo

Whisperin Smith used that phrase but used Texas in his, not Ca.

[bluelouise13]

well now we know where SRV got his voice and licks!!!

[Django5198]

I discover more amazing blues songs everyday!!!!! It's stuff like this that makes me think to myself "How can some people be so close minded and listen to that dross on the shite radio stations?". Some people are going plastic (getting into all this celebrity shite that is taking over their lives). Just listen to this. It makes me feel like a guy working in a coffee shop somewhere in Colorado around 1967. My idea of heaven

[Dreko41]

beautiful

[lethaldosage6040]

Kinda looks like the black guy from Hot Tub Time Machine.......

[jrichardsphotography]

Glad I got to hear this, thanks.

[modguitar]

I did not know this version, I thought it was a song made by SRV ...

[gitfiddlejim]

@modguitar

No guys like SRV and thousands of other "copiers" I have yet to hear any who actually came up with their own great blues song or tune, lyrics, all just seem to copy.

[pokeymon89]

@gitfiddlejim, Lol then you must be deaf or just plain retarded. SRV has many of his own great blues songs and the songs he did covers on he made sound twiceas good as the original.

[DancingOwl]

Sure sounds like Fenton Robinson on guitar too....love that mid to late 50's biting, hard guitar sound......stolen by so many white kids not even born when this was recorded.

[sab777]

drinkin shots with this guy in jj's introduces himself, later that night he rip's

TF onstage with SRV. no lie.

[Django5198]

@sab777 incredible!!!!!!!!!!

[mnunezper]

in the Texas Flood

[peterpterodactyl]

floodin' down in Texas. Larry Davis 1958. Annapolis, and Binghampton, too

[bobobekker]

I first heard this song by the late Whispering Smith and Lightning Slim in the early 60 thanks for posting it

[fmilktoast]

stevie really copped this guy's vocal style. that's bizarre.

[boxingin]

@fmilktoast According to his fans (SRV) he wrote the song. So I'm just a hater according to them...

[fmilktoast]

@boxingin yes. stevie ray vaughan must have written this song, regardless of the fact that larry davis recorded it in the late 50s. that is perfectly logical.

[boxingin]

@fmilktoast Maybe SRV owned a time machine....

[Dreambro1]

@boxingin Welll, i think its like this, songs have existed long before a particular artist brought it to the Charts! Like whitneys version of I will always love you! and Madonna's Fever,, both songs were around long before they became huge hits! And non of the singers who made them hits, wrote the songs!

[boxingin]

What a shame that people (specially the SRV's retarded fans) really believe that SRV wrote this great tune.

[pontil1]

I too, thought SRV wrote this.  What a great discovery!

[grksath]

1958???

[Dreambro1]

@grksath yeah, 1958,,,,i think thats year Stevie Ray was born,, either that or 1956 , i forget!

[Dreambro1]

@Dreambro1 ooops,, he was born in 1954,,, Stevie was only 4 years old when this song came out! lol

[Tubyubber]

ALL THE TELE-PHONE LINES ARE DOWN

[Tubyubber]

floodin down in Texas

[Tubyubber]

well there's

[joshua9312]

@Iputrandomstuff i know how you feel bro

[JSLLH]

this is just killer ! thank you for the great music and thank you randomand rare for turning me on to your channel !

[ShitSoda]

i had no idea SRV's version was a cover. oh well, both versions are great

[xo1tom1ox]

the vocals are so much better than stevie however he had a graet cover track. I like the original not to shabby :P

[charliespaceship]

awesome tune.

[snorrevonflake]

great, i didnt know that original version until lately - i think stevie ray killed that track.

[diamondjayhiphop]

Original Blues song. written with Joseph Wade Scott. Joe Scott made" turn on your love light" and many more classic Houston blue songs of that era,some were hidden (Big Mama Thornton).Bobby Bland is a Joe Scott creation. Just a little info.

[jessicaR4bbit]

It is such a great shame that brilliant music like this, and REAL talent exist under the radar and out of the spotlight and you have thousands of rubbish no talent artists out there raking in the money.

If I could get every single person on this planet to listen, I'd make them all hear the blues... B.B, Larry Davis, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Bessie Smith, Albert King..

[HoleHeadedLiar]

@jessicaR4bbit And don't forget Stevie Ray.

[SRVblueshero1]

Thanks for uploading this video this is really cool

[justchill919]

great post dude

[jessejamescahn]

professionally and Blues in particular for 20yrs at that point and had a Country Rock band in Santa Cruz doing quite well as my 2nd marriage dissolved. TMI... but nevertheless..

I have played and taught Blues now for over 40 years and when I finish playing "5 Long Years" at a gig and someone says (continued)

[jessejamescahn]

Wullieboy... Age *does* - determine musical taste in so much as the time one forms it is usually permeated with one or the other style/fad... I am just now reading Andy Summers' Autobiography and this is very apparent as he surfs thru the Skiffle, then Hippie, then Punk eras inEngland in a few short years... And not to cap on your age - were you born in 1985? - I had been playing music

[kingofthemosh]

Kinda reminds me of old Otis Rush.  Good stuff.

[jodyv]

Cool, it's great too finally hear the original!

[stareman]

One of the great singers and guitarists in blues/soul and deserving of much wider recognition. His CDs are full of this wonderful sound.

[alanstrainor]

The soul in this track is unbelievable, thanks for posting.

[rocfanatic13]

thanks for posting this original classic. I wish Larry Davis had more music available, only been able to find a few cds.

[jessejamescahn]

Yes kiddies... there was Blues before Clapton....

[Wullieboy1985]

Yup there was also blues before Robert Johnson, Son House, Sonny Boy Williamson old man whats your point? With that out the way I enjoyed Backslider Blues... Age does not determine musical taste.

[srvfan454]

Man this guy has a VOICE!

[mDarkPoet]

My mother knew him personally and was very sad when he passed. She wanted me to take a listen to this and it's mighty impressive. Too bad I was 2 when he died I would have loved to have met him.

[DrewAnti1960]

very cool,love the original's,peace

[ShaneBrunell]

Thats a very cool version. Available anywhere in mp3 format? or on cd?

[1Bluesboy1]

I've got it on the cd compilation

The Best of Duke-Peacock Blues - Various Artists.

But I also use ares as my free file-sharing, downloading program and I bet it would be there, also.

[M1M83]

@ShaneBrunell Blues Classics (3CD)

[Chariotz5]

@ShaneBrunell you could rip the mp3 file from this video by going to many of the free online sites such as video2mp3 and following the on-screen instructions. Not sure if it's legal though.

[187Takeapicturetrick]

@ShaneBrunell you tube downloader has a converter to

[jianlian]

wow.. never knew SRV's version was actually a cover.. go figure

[MikeG62]

Recorded in Houston in 1958 with Fenton Robinson on lead guitar. I have the 45 of this.

[d820m]

i have it on 45 and 78

[abcaines]

Great pick.

[Hb35Jazz]

Is this tune from 1958!? :O