12 Perfect Classic Rock Albums With NO Bad Songs

12. Texas Flood - Stevie Ray Vaughan

The bluesy guitar player has been gotten glossed over so many times that it's pretty much a cliche at this point. Ever since the days of Hendrix, it feels like every other guitar player feels like they can get by by just getting a fuzz pedal and blasting some BB King riffs that they learned in their garage. It's been played out, guys...and Stevie Ray Vaughan already reached that perfection back in the '80s.

Yeah, as much as it seems like this record existed since the dawn of time, it took until the '80s that we were visited by one of the greatest bluesmen this side of Muddy Waters and Albert King. Fresh off his time as a session musician backing David Bowie on Let's Dance, Stevie turned down the chance to tour with the Thin White Duke to craft this collection of songs, which remain the textbook example of blues rock.

Although every single one of these tunes follow the standard bluesy progression that everyone's tired of, not once does it ever seem boring coming from Stevie, whether it's the loose groove of Pride and Joy or the freight train intensity of something like the instrumental Rude Mood. Stevie may not have had much time with us on this Earth, but what he did give us is something we've been trying to decipher for years.