Considered a blues standard, it has been recorded by several artists, including Stevie Ray Vaughan, who made it part of his repertoire.

[1] "Texas Flood" is a slow-tempo twelve-bar blues notated in 12/8 time in the key of A flat.

[2] Nominally about a flood in Texas, Davis used it as a metaphor for his relationship problems: Well I'm leavin' you baby, Lord I'm goin' back home to stay (2×) Well where there's no floods or tornadoes, baby the sun shines every day Although Davis later became a guitar player, for "Texas Flood" Fenton Robinson provided the distinctive guitar parts, with Davis on vocals and bass, James Booker on piano, David Dean on tenor saxophone, Booker Crutchfield on baritone saxophone, and an unknown drummer.

Although Vaughan performed it in using G fingering, he tuned his guitar one-half step lower; as a result the song is played in the key of G-flat.

Vaughan's version is listed at number 66 by Rolling Stone magazine in its "100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time"[5]