Stevie Ray Vaughan - Solos, Sessions & Encores

The blues-rock guitar hero's studio vaults were nearly empty when he died in an August 27, 1990, helicopter crash. This set unearths a 1978 Austin session track of "You Can Have My Husband" with Vaughan as second fiddle to his then girlfriend, singer Lou Ann Barton, but it's undistinguished compared to the previously unreleased live performances that compose this disc's heart. Vaughan contributes teeth-baring pentatonic solos to Lonnie Mack's "Oreo Cookie Blues" at Atlanta's Fox Theatre in 1986 and brings his bullish tone to the late blues piano stomper Katie Webster's "On the Run" at the 1988 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. Bonnie Raitt's distinctively keening slide adds elegance to a "Texas Flood" from Bumbershoot 1985 in Seattle, and when Stevie's older sibling Jimmie Vaughan stops by Saturday Night Live to play rhythm on a 1985 "Change It," li'l bro' squeezes out screaming fireworks. But the best cut's a breathtaking '88 Jazz Fest slugfest with Texas Telecaster blaster Albert Collins that's jammed with howling, shaken notes and machine-gun riffing. Both are in top form. The rest is culled from Vaughan's guest appearances on others' releases or previous retrospectives and include matches with blues godfathers B.B. King and Albert King, as well as Johnny Copeland and A.C. Reed, Jeff Beck, Austin barrelhouser Marcia Ball, surf guitar king Dick Dale, and David Bowie, whose "Let's Dance" introduced Vaughan to the mainstream in 1983. --Ted Drozdowski Amazon.com

stevie at his best

WAITED A LONG TIME FOR SOMETHING I HADNT HEARD BEFORE AND SOME OF THE NUMBERS WERE NEW TO ME. MIND YOU IT WOULDNT MATTER WHAT HE PLAYED IT WAS ALWAYS GREAT. SO SAD THAT THERE WONT BE ANY MORE. REST IN PEACE STEVIE RAY May 27, 2008

More SRV, Can't get enough?

Hi,
If you are reading this review, then you must be a true SRV follower as I am.This CD is Stevie jammin' with other blues cats at different stages in his cut short music career. Highlights are Pipeline & Lets Dance.I bet you
wouldn't have brought a Bowie record for this one song that put Stevie on the world stage, but now you can have it.
The live tracks capture Stevie on equal footing with his pears sometimes even holding back so as not to overpower then with his mighty guitar prowess.
Hopefully the SRV Estate will be able to also come up with a DVD of like material for us to remember him by also. March 15, 2008

Just enjoy it

What is wrong with some of these people? I don't think Stevie Ray is coming out of his grave to put out any new material. Enjoy it for what it is, material from the vault that most people haven't heard. Hendrix stuff has been coming out almost 40 years after his death. Zappa has almost 200 hours of material stashed away. The record companies suck, it's true, but this is for the hardcore fan. Stop bitching. I don't normally post but some of you guys are ridiculous. February 10, 2008

SRV Must Have!

A wonderful addition to any SRV collection. A good mix of old and timeless jam sessions with the greatest minds of electric blues. Definitely a must have for any serious SRV fan. February 9, 2008

Anything from SRV is GOLD to us!

My husband and I would buy anything and everything that the record companies can find where SRV plays. PERIOD. They know it; we know it. He was the BEST! No one can replace him and we would buy a polka if SRV were playing on it. We want everything he did and are MORE than happy to pay the price! You can hear his genius through it all. So everyone just CHILL. January 25, 2008

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