Stevie Ray Vaughan playing "Tin Pan Alley" with Double Trouble and Johnny Copeland at Montreux's Festival in 1985. Tin Pan Alley (aka Roughest Place In Town) from 1984 album: Couldn't Stand the Weather. Couldn't Stand the Weather is the second studio album by American blues rock band Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble. It was released on May 15, 1984 by Epic Records as the follow-up to the band's critically and commercially successful 1983 album Texas Flood. Recording sessions took place in January 1984 at the Power Station in New York City. The song written by Robert Geddins. Robert L. "Bob" Geddins (February 6, 1913 -- February 16, 1991) was an American San Francisco Bay Area blues and rhythm and blues musician and record producer. Geddins was born in Highbank, Texas, United States, a town ten miles south of Marlin, who came to Oakland, California during World War II, and worked there until his death of liver cancer in 1991. Tin Pan Alley is the name given to the collection of New York City-centered music publishers and songwriters who dominated the popular music of the United States in the late 19th century and early 20th century. The start of Tin Pan Alley is usually dated to about 1885, when a number of music publishers set up shop in the same district of Manhattan. The end of Tin Pan Alley is less clear cut. Some date it to the start of the Great Depression in the 1930s when the phonograph and radio supplanted sheet music as the driving force of American popular music, while others consider Tin Pan Alley to have continued into the 1950s when earlier styles of American popular music were upstaged by the rise of rock & roll. Tin Pan Alley was originally a specific place in New York City, West 28th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenue. There is a plaque on the sidewalk on 28th St between Broadway and Fifth with a dedication. This block is now considered part of Manhattan's Flatiron District. The origins of the name "Tin Pan Alley" are unclear. The most popular account holds that it was originally a derogatory reference to the sound made by many pianos all playing different tunes in this small urban area, producing a cacophony comparable to banging on tin pans. With time this nickname was popularly embraced and many years later it came to describe the U.S. music industry in general. The term is also used to describe any area within a major city with a high concentration of music publishers or musical instrument stores. Lyrics: Went down to Tin Pan Alley See what was going on Things was too hot down there Couldn't stay very long Hey hey hey hey, Alley's the roughest place I've ever been All the people down there Livin' for their whisky, wine, and gin I heard a woman scream Yeah and I peeped through the door Some cat was workin' on Annie with a Lord with a two-by-four Hey hey hey hey, Alley's the roughest place I've ever been All the people down there Livin' for their whisky, wine, and gin I heard a pistol shoot Yeah and it was a .44 Somebody killed a crap shooter cause he didn't Shake, rattle, and roll Hey hey hey hey, Alley's the roughest place I've ever been All the people down there Killin' for their whisky, wine, and gin I saw a cop standing With his hand on his gun He said "this is a raid, boy Nobody run" Hey hey hey hey, Alley's the roughest place I've ever been Yeah they took me away from Alley Lord they took me right back to the pen.