Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble - Texas Flood - 1983

Brad Holland was told that Stevie Ray wanted to be portrayed in a western get-up; riding a horse with his guitar slung over his back. After some charcoal sketches Brad was not satisfied about this idea. He told the art director that this whole idea was old fashioned and that a more straight-forward painting would be better.

The problem was that Brad only was given a crummy Polaroid of Stevie Ray playing his guitar to work from. But this didn't work out so he told him that if he wanted the guy on the cover to look like Stevie Ray, he'd have to fetch him in from Texas and send him down to Brad's studio.

And so it happened - an iconic art work was born.
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