"Lenny" | |
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Song by Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble | |
from the album Texas Flood | |
Released | June 13, 1983 |
Recorded | November 24, 1982 |
Genre |
Electric blues Blues rock Instrumental ballad |
Length | 4:59 |
Label | Epic Records |
Songwriter(s) | Stevie Ray Vaughan |
"Lenny" is the tenth and final track on the first Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble album Texas Flood. [1] The song is in 4/4 time and notated in the key of E flat major (but instruments are tuned down a half-step, so the chordal structure is in E). It is played very slowly and freely, with Vaughan alternating between jazz-inflected chords and solo runs. The main chord featured in the song is a movable major 6th chord to which Vaughan applies moderate vibrato with the tremolo bar. The solos incorporate the E major scale, the E minor pentatonic scale, and the E Minor blues scale. Its style is influenced by Jimi Hendrix ballads like " The Wind Cries Mary". [2] The song was written and named for Vaughan's wife at the time, Lenora. Vaughan also named one of his guitars " Lenny", which he used on "Lenny" and on his later instrumental ballad, " Riviera Paradise". The track was often played at live shows.