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Rude Mood
"Rude Mood" is the sixth track on Stevie Ray Vaughan's debut album Texas Flood. It is a blues shuffle instrumental in 4/4 (common time) and played at a challenging 264 beats per minute.
The song was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance in 1984 but lost to Sting's "Brimstone and Treacle".
Origin and structure.
"Rude Mood" is a take-off of a Lightnin' Hopkins song called "Hopkins' Sky Hop". Vaughan
Stand the Weather", and "Rude Mood". During the second half of the performance, Vaughan performed covers by Larry Davis, Buddy Guy, Guitar Slim, Albert King, Jackie Wilson, and Albert Collins. The set ended with Vaughan performing solo renditions of "Lenny" and "Rude Mood".
The "Dallas Times-Herald" wrote of the performance at Carnegie Hall as; "was full of stomping feet and swaying bodies, kids in blue jeans hanging off the balconies, dancing bodies that clogged