17/09/2026
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble started playing "Tin Pan Alley" at New York's Power Station before the engineers had even finished setting the sound.
It was January 1984. They took the old blues down almost to a whisper.
When it ended, John Hammond, the man who had signed Bob Dylan, leaned into the talkback microphone and told them something no band expects to hear about a take nobody had even set levels for.
On September 21, 1985, they played it again at the Capitol Theatre in Passaic, New Jersey.
The first song Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble recorded for Couldn't Stand the Weather was a 1953 blues. They tried to beat that first take and never did.
