Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble: Couldn't Stand the Weather

Couldn't Stand the Weather was Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble's follow-up to their critically acclaimed and commercially successful album (1,000,000 copies sold within 5 weeks), Texas Flood. The album reached number 31 on the Billboard 200 Albums Chart, with the music video for "Couldn't Stand the Weather" regularly featured on MTV. AllMusic gave the record a four out of five star review. "Voodoo Child" and "Tin Pan Alley" are standouts, primarily because of Vaughan's impressive guitar playing.

Similar to Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs' One-Step release of Texas Flood, Couldn't Stand the Weather is a very quiet pressing. The sounds stage is expansive and the detail is impressive. However, in typical MOFI fashion the bass and highs are EQ'd up a bit too much, causing them to boom to hard and ping to high at times. As such, the mids and vocals tend to get lost in the listening experience.

Also typical of a MOFI release, the vinyl is dirty out of the box. The sleeves also arrive split in most cases, as was ours. Poor manufacturing, packaging, shipping, and handling are consistently to blame. For $125 at time of purchase, one expects something more. Especially since others seem to get this aspect of the experience correct.

TRACK LIST
1. Scuttle Buttin'
2. Couldn't Stand The Weather
3. The Things (That) I Used To Do
4. Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
5. Cold Shot
6. Tin Pan Alley
7. Honey Bee
8. Stang's Swang

Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs' One-Step release of Couldn't Stand the Weather leaves a bit to be desired from an audiophile release. It is not horrible by any means. However, "Not Horrible" is not what you want to hear someone say about an audiophile release such as this. If you like big bass and elevated highs, then this, may be the record you are looking for. Especially when you consider that the bass can sound muffled on some of the mass produced versions.  💵

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