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Chris Layton
real name Christopher Layton
Corpus Christi, United States
Chris Layton is credited on 124 albums across 569 pressings tracked on Gatefold, active 1983–2026 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

124
Albums
569
Pressings
5
Decades active
421
In collections
Biography
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American drummer, born 16 November 1955. Sometimes known as Chris "Whipper" Layton.
Bio from Discogs
Credited work
124 albums · 569 pressings · active 1983–2026
- Performance · 695
- Production · 169
- Other credits · 81
Studios: Riverside Sound · Dallas Sound Lab · Down Town Studio · Kiva Studios
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.

Texas Flood
1983

Couldn't Stand The Weather
1984

Soul To Soul
1985

In Step
1989

The Sky Is Crying
1991

Live Alive
1986

Greatest Hits
1995

The Essential Stevie Ray Vaughan And Double Trouble
2002

Live At Carnegie Hall
1997

Ledbetter Heights
1995

In The Beginning
1992

The Traveler
2019

Trouble Is...25
2022

Live At Montreux 1982 & 1985
2001

Blues At Sunrise
2000

The Real Deal: Greatest Hits Volume 2
1999

Trouble Is...
1997

Buddy's Baddest: The Best Of Buddy Guy
1999

Slippin' In
1994

Arc Angels
1992

Live At The El Mocambo
1991
Dirt On My Diamonds Volume 1
2023

Lay It On Down
2017

Pierced Arrow
2016
Frequent collaborators
- Stevie Ray Vaughan
- Stevie Ray Vaughan And Double Trouble
- Various
- Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble
- Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band
- Arc Angels
- W. C. Clark
- The Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band
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