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  • Pride And Joy
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  • Epic Records singles
  • 1983 songs
  • Stevie Ray Vaughan songs
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  • %22Pride and Joy%22 is a song by Texas singer/guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan and his backup band Double Trouble. It is an original composition by Vaughan and appeared on his 1983 Epic Records debut album Texas Flood. %22Pride and Joy%22 was also released as Vaughan's first single and has become one of his best-known songs.%22Pride and Joy%22 was a feature of Vaughan live repertoire before he recorded it. According to Double Trouble drummer Chris Layton, Vaughan wrote it for a new girlfriend at the time (a later fight with her inspired his %22I'm Cryin'%22).Well, you've heard about love givin' sight to the blindMy baby's lovin' 'cause the sun to shineShe's my sweet little thing, she's my pride and joyShe's my sweet little baby, I'm her little lover boyCalled %22a classic Texas shuffle%22, it has a twelve-bar blues arrangement, notated in the key of E (although with Vaughan's guitar tuned one-half step lower, 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. Vaughan also %22extracts 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♭])%22.Vaughan's song was released as a single and reached number 20 in Billboard magazine's Mainstream Rock chart. A cover of the song was featured in the music video game Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock. His album Texas Flood was also a best seller and helped renew interest in blues music.
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  • Stevie Ray Vaughan
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  • Stevie Ray Vaughan
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  • Epic Records
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  • Pride And Joy
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