"Pride and Joy"
Single by Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble
from the album Texas Flood
B-side"Rude Mood"
ReleasedJune 13, 1983 (1983-06-13) (album)
RecordedNovember 24, 1982
StudioDown Town, Los Angeles
Genreblues
Length3:41
LabelEpic
Songwriter(s)Stevie Ray Vaughan
Producer(s)Stevie Ray Vaughan, Richard Mullen, and Double Trouble
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble singles chronology
"Pride and Joy"
(1983) 		"Couldn't Stand the Weather"
(1984)
Audio
"Pride and Joy on YouTube

"Pride and Joy" is a song by American singer, guitarist and songwriter Stevie Ray Vaughan and his backing band Double Trouble, released in late 1983 by Epic Records. It is an original composition by Vaughan and was released on his debut studio album Texas Flood (1983). "Pride and Joy" was released as Vaughan's debut single and has become one of his most popular songs.

Lyrics

"Pride and Joy" was a feature of Vaughan's live repertoire before he recorded it. According to Double Trouble drummer Chris Layton, Vaughan wrote it for a new girlfriend at the time; somewhat ironically, a later fight with her inspired "I'm Crying'".[1]

Composition

Called "a classic Texas shuffle",[2] it has a twelve-bar blues arrangement, notated in the key of E[2] (although with Vaughan's guitar tuned one-half step lower,[3] resulting in the pitch of E♭) in 4
4 time with a moderately fast tempo. The main guitar figure features a bassline along with muted chord chops to produce a percussive-like effect.[2] Vaughan also "extracts extra sound from the guitar by choosing finger shapes that allow the maximum number of strings to ring at a time (often the top E-string [E♭])".[2]

Chart performance

The song was released as a single and reached #20 on Mainstream Rock.[4]

References

  1. ^ Kitts, Jeff; Tolinski, Brad (2002). Guitar World Presents the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time!. Hal Leonard. p. 147. ISBN 978-0-634-04619-3.
  2. ^ a b c d Gregory, Hugh (2003). Roadhouse Blues: Stevie Ray Vaughan and Texas R&B. Backbeat Books. p. 127. ISBN 978-0-87930-747-9.
  3. ^ Marshall, Wolf (2008). Stuff! Good Guitar Players Should Know: An A-Z Guide to Getting Better. Hal Leonard. p. 129. ISBN 978-1423430087.
  4. ^ "Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble: Chart History – Mainstream Rock Songs". Billboard.com. Archived from the original on September 21, 2019. Retrieved September 21, 2019.
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