Stevie Ray Vaughn: C or D / S & D

I appreciate that my phone autocorrected to Thorp good, that should be some dance producer’s name.

the only 'original'-ish thing i can recall since his death is the revelation of junior kimbrough

buddy guy took his shot with 'sweet tea' and it was incredible. i would very much like to have heard SRV's take on that, even if his vocals sucked

omg mookie thank you for reminding me about sweet tea

I can appreciate his talent, but I've never been able to get into him at all. As unperson points out, his voice is a really big hurdle for me (and believe I recognize the irony as someone who had no problem with Billy Corgan pre-1990), but I just found it obnoxious. The other reason was that I knew two huge SRV boosters in college and they were both the most annoying, pestering guys that dressed and acted exactly like the Blues Hammer dudes you might expect. Both of them just consistently refused to engage in any music outside of SRV or the artists he covered and collaborated with, although I do remember them both really getting into Kenny Wayne Shepherd towards the end of college.

Every time I've come across "I hate SRV because of these people I know..." I inevitably think of this.

Now, like, Kenny Wayne Shepherd? Jonny Lang? Jeff Healy? I never heard much character in any of those cats. Maybe someone like Warren Haynes does, but he's going for something different from those other dudes.

Anyway, yeah, at the very least, if you don't like his vox Vaughan has a bunch of great instrumental stuff. Like his interpretation of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqwGkADH_GY

Or this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3x1vfs_zmcw

Just looking, I was surprised to see Xgau was an unabashed fan.

Sounds like you guys would jump on a Andrea Bocelli sings the blues album.

Sounds like you guys would jump on a Andrea Bocelli sings the blues album.
LMAO

SRV doesn't rank among my favorite singers, but dismissing someone altogether with "I can't stand his voice" is worthless criticism, it's typically a sign of personal prejudice and not much else. Too many voices to name are acquired tastes.

Ah then that shows my beautiful purity, since I hate all singers, and music, and in fact most everything. I am only interested in concrete walls.

Or, y'know, sometimes people just find certain voices really off-putting. I swear to god, the amount of energy people put into assuming bad or dishonest intent when someone doesn't like a particular artist is bonkers to me.

It's kind of the Rush corollary for me: in the end, I'm really not listening for the singing.

I can usually put aside voices I don't love, I mean stoner rock in particular is littered with mediocre to awful singes but they usually are sparse and/or buried enough in fuzz that they don't bother me. SRV's voice, however, seems to just cut right through everything to pierce my appreciation of his guitar playing. His instrumentals are pretty good though!

Just here to say “life by the drop” is a beautiful song

I swear to god, the amount of energy people put into assuming bad or dishonest intent when someone doesn't like a particular artist is bonkers to me.

Oh please, it doesn't take nearly as much effort as going on and on about how everyone is wrong to like someone because THE VOICE!