THE HOUSE IS ROCKIN'
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN & DOUBLE TROUBLE
SONGWRITERS: Doyle
Bramhall & Stevie Ray Vaughan
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: IN STEP
LABEL: EPIC RECORDS
GENRE: BLUES ROCK
YEAR: 1989
Stephen Ray Vaughan (October 3, 1954 – August
27, 1990) was an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer,
best known as the guitarist and frontman of the blues rock band Double
Trouble. Although his mainstream career only spanned
seven years, he is considered to be one of the most iconic and influential
musicians in the history of blues
music, and one of the greatest guitarists of all
time.
Born and raised in Dallas, Texas,
Vaughan began playing guitar at age seven, initially inspired by his elder
brother Jimmie Vaughan.
In 1972, he dropped out of high school and moved to Austin,
where he began to gain a following after playing gigs on the local club
circuit. Vaughan formed the band Double Trouble in 1978 and established it as
part of the Austin
music scene, which soon became one of the
most popular acts in Texas. He performed at the Montreux
Jazz Festival in 1982 where David Bowie saw him play and contacted him for a studio gig, resulting in Stevie
playing his blues guitar on the album Let's Dance (1983) before being
discovered by John Hammond, who interested major label Epic Records in signing them to a record deal. Within months, Vaughan achieved
mainstream success with Double Trouble for the critically acclaimed debut álbum
Texas Flood.
With a series of
successful network television appearances and extensive concert tours, he
became the leading figure in the blues revival of the 1980s. Playing
his guitar behind his back or plucking the strings with his teeth like Jimi Hendrix did, he earned unprecedented stardom in Europe which later resulted
in breakthroughs for guitar players like Robert Cray, Jeff Healey, Robben Ford
and Walter Trout, amongst others.
During the majority of his life, Vaughan
struggled with drug and alcohol addiction. He also struggled with the personal and professional pressures of
fame, and his marriage to Lenora "Lenny" Bailey. He successfully
completed rehabilitation and began touring again with Double Trouble in
November 1986. His fourth and final studio álbum In Step reached number 33 in the United States in 1989; it was one of
Vaughan's most critically and commercially successful releases and included his
only number-one hit "Crossfire". He became one of the world's most
highly demanded blues performers, and he headlined Madison
Square Garden in 1989 and the Beale Street Music Festival in 1990.
On August 27, 1990, Vaughan and four others
were killed in a helicopter crash in East
Troy, Wisconsin, after performing with Double
Trouble at Alpine Valley Music Theatre. An
investigation concluded that the cause was pilot error and Vaughan's family
later filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Omniflight Helicopters, which was settled out of
court. Vaughan's music continued to achieve commercial success with several
posthumous releases and has sold over 15 million albums in the United States
alone. In 2003, David Fricke of Rolling Stone ranked him the seventh greatest guitarist of all time. Vaughan was
posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2015, along
with Double Trouble bandmates Chris
Layton, Tommy
Shannon, and Reese
Wynans.
In Step is the fourth studio album by Stevie
Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble released in 1989.
The title In Step can be seen as referring to Vaughan's new-found sobriety,
following the years of drug and alcohol use that eventually led Vaughan into
rehabilitation. It
was also Vaughan's final album with Double Trouble, and also Vaughan's last
album to be released during his lifetime. In 1990,
he recorded a collaboration album with his brother, Jimmie Vaughan,
called Family Style; later
that year, Stevie Ray Vaughan died in a helicopter crash.
Well - The house is a
rockin' don't bother knockin'
Yeah - The house is a rockin' don't bother knockin'
Yeah - The house is a rockin' don't bother come on in
Kick off your shoes
start losin' the blues
This old house ain't got nothin' to lose
Seen it all for years start spreadin' the news
We got room on the floor come on baby shake sumpin' loose
Well - The house is a
rockin' don't bother knockin'
Yeah - The house is a rockin' don't bother knockin'
Yeah - The house is a rockin' don't bother come on in
(Solos Piano and
Guitar)
Well - The house is a
rockin' don't bother knockin'
Yeah - The house is a rockin' don't bother knockin'
Yeah - The house is a rockin' don't bother come on in
Walkin' up the street
you can hear the sound
Of some bad honky tonkers really layin' it down
They've seen it all for years and got nothin' to lose
So get down on the floor shimmy 'til you shake sumpin' loose
Well - The house is a
rockin' don't bother knockin'
Yeah - The house is a rockin' don't bother knockin'
Yeah - The house is a rockin' don't bother come on in
I said the house is a rockin' don't bother come on in.
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