Lenny (Stevie Ray Vaughan song)

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“Lenny”
Song by Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble
Album	Texas Flood
Released	June 13, 1983
Recorded	1982
Genre	Electric blues Blues rock
Length	4:59
Label	Epic Records
Writer	Stevie Ray Vaughan
Texas Flood track listing
"I'm Cryin'" (9) “Lenny” (10)

"Lenny" is the 10th track on the first Stevie Ray Vaughan album Texas Flood. The song is in 4/4 time and is played very slowly and freely, as it was often played at live shows. The song itself was written and named for his wife at the time, Lenora. Vaughan also named one of his guitars "Lenny". He used this guitar during the song "Lenny" and also "Riviera Paradise".

The jazz/fusion guitarist Stanley Jordan covered this song under the title A Salute To Stevie Ray Vaughan. It features on the album A Tribute To Stevie Ray Vaughan, where other influential jazz and blues guitarists, such as Eric Clapton and B.B. King, also play covers of some of Vaughan's best-known work.

John Mayer covered Lenny at a concert in Birmingham, Alabama, where his album Any Given Thursday was recorded.

In 2007, select Guitar Centers will be selling exact replica's of Lenny, the guitar, and is being advertised in many guitar magazines. The release date for the signature series "Lenny" stratocaster is December 12, 2007.