Editing Stevie Ray Vaughan (section)

==== ''Couldn't Stand the Weather'' ====
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In January 1984, Double Trouble began recording their second studio album, ''[[Couldn't Stand the Weather]]'', at the [[Power Station (recording studio)|Power Station]], with John Hammond as executive producer and engineer Richard Mullen.<ref name="Hopkins 2011 46">{{harvnb|Hopkins|2011|p=46}}: "January: Studio sessions for ''Couldn't Stand the Weather'', nineteen days at New York City's Power Station."</ref> Layton later recalled working with Hammond: "he was kind of like a nice hand on your shoulder, as opposed to someone that jumped in and said, 'let's redo this, let's do that more.' He didn't get involved in that way at all. He was a feedback person."<ref name="Hopkins 2011 46" /> As the sessions began, Vaughan's cover of [[Bob Geddins]]' "Tin Pan Alley" was recorded while audio levels were being checked. Layton remembers the performance: "...&nbsp;we did probably the quietest version we ever did up 'til that point. We ended it and [Hammond] said; 'that's the best that song will ever sound,' and we went; 'we haven't even got sounds, have we?' He goes, 'that doesn't matter. That's the best you'll ever do that song.' We tried it again five, six, seven times – I can't even remember. But it never quite sounded like it did that first time."<ref>''In the Studio'', Album Network, 1993, Redbeard (primary source); {{harvnb|Hopkins|2011|p=46}} (secondary source)</ref>

During recording sessions, Vaughan began experimenting with other combinations of musicians, including [[Fran Christina]] and [[Stan Harrison]], who played drums and saxophone respectively on the jazz instrumental, "Stang's Swang".<ref name="Patoski Crawford 173">{{harvnb|Patoski|Crawford|1993|p=173}}</ref> Jimmie Vaughan played rhythm guitar on his cover of [[Guitar Slim]]'s "[[The Things That I Used to Do]]" and the title track, in the latter of which Vaughan carries a worldly message in his lyrics.<ref name="Patoski Crawford 176">{{harvnb|Patoski|Crawford|1993|p=176}}</ref> According to [[musicologist]] Andy Aledort, Vaughan's guitar playing throughout the song is marked by steady rhythmic strumming patterns and improvised lead lines, with a distinctive R&B and [[Soul music|soul]] single-note riff, doubled in octaves by guitar and bass.<ref name="Aledort CSTW">{{cite magazine|title=In Deep: Stevie Ray Vaughan's Playing on "Couldn't Stand the Weather"|url=http://www.guitarworld.com/deep-stevie-ray-vaughans-playing-couldnt-stand-weather|magazine=[[Guitar World]]|access-date=April 13, 2014}}</ref>

''Couldn't Stand the Weather'' was released on May 15, 1984, and two weeks later it had rapidly outpaced the sales of ''Texas Flood''.<ref>{{harvnb|Hopkins|2011|p=59}}</ref>{{refn|group=nb|Three weeks after its release, ''Couldn't Stand the Weather'' sold 242,000 copies and was ultimately certified platinum, selling over one million units by the end of the year.<ref name="Patoski Crawford 176" />}} It peaked at number 31 and spent 38 weeks on the charts.<ref name="Patoski Crawford 176" /> The album includes Vaughan's cover of [[Jimi Hendrix]]'s song, "[[Voodoo Child (Slight Return)]]", which provoked inevitable comparisons to Hendrix.<ref>{{harvnb|Patoski|Crawford|1993|p=174}}</ref> According to AllMusic editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine, ''Couldn't Stand the Weather'' "confirmed that the acclaimed debut was no fluke, while matching, if not bettering, the sales of its predecessor, thereby cementing Vaughan's status as a giant of modern blues."<ref>{{cite web|title=Couldn't Stand the Weather – Stevie Ray Vaughan: Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/couldnt-stand-the-weather-mw0000196175 |website=AllMusic |access-date=April 13, 2014}}</ref> According to authors Joe Nick Patoski and Bill Crawford, the album "was a major turning point in Stevie Ray Vaughan's development" and Vaughan's singing improved.<ref name="Patoski Crawford 173" />