STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN AND DOUBLE TROUBLE
''S.R.VAUGHAN BOX SET, DISC ONE''
NOVEMBER 21, 2000
230:35
DISC ONE
1. Thunderbird (Recorded In Austin, Texas 1977) (Paul Ray & The Cobras)
2. I’m Cryin’
3. You’re Gonna Miss Me Baby (Recorded During An Austin, Texas Soundcheck 1979)
4. They Call Me Guitar Hurricane (Live)
5. All Your Love I Miss Loving (Live) (Recorded At The Steamboat In Austin, Texas 1980)
6. Come On (Pt.III)
7. Letter To My Girlfriend
8. Lenny (KUT-FM Radio Performance, Austin, Texas 1981)
9. Don’t Lose Your Cool (Live)
10. Crosscut Saw (Live)
11. Manic Depression (Live) (Recorded At Fitzgerald’s Club, Houston, Texas 1981)
12. Texas Flood (Live)
13. Collins’ Shuffle (Live) (Recorded At The Montreux International Jazz Festival 1982)
14. Pride And Joy (Taken From The Album Texas Flood 1982)
15. Love Struck Baby (First ‘Austin City Limits’ Television Appearance 1983)
16. Hug You, Squeeze You (Live) (Recorded At The El Mocambo, Toronto, Canada 1983)
17. Don’t Stop By The Creek, Son (Taken From The Album Texas Twister 1982) (Johnny Copeland with Stevie Ray Vaughan)
18. Ask Me No Questions (Taken From The Album In Session 1983) (Albert King with Stevie Ray Vaughan)
DISC TWO
1. Scuttle Buttin’
2. Couldn’t Stand The Weather (Taken From The Album Couldn’t Stand The Weather 1984)
3. Empty Arms (Taken From The Album The Sky Is Crying 1984)
4. Little Wing/Third Stone From The Sun (Live) (CBS Records Convention, Honolulu, Hawaii 1984)
5. If You Have To Know (Taken From The Album Strike Like Lightning 1984) (Lonnie Mack with Stevie Ray Vaughan)
6. These Blues Is Killing Me (Taken From The Album I’m In The Wrong Business 1984) (A.C. Reed with Stevie Ray Vaughan)
7. Boilermaker (Outtake From The Soul To Soul Sessions 1985)
8. Change It (Taken From The Album Soul To Soul 1985)
9. Shake ‘N Bake (Outtake From The Soul To Soul Sessions 1985)
10. Mary Had A Little Lamb (Live) (Taken From The Album Living Alive 1985)
11. I’m Leavin’ You (Commit A Crime) (Live) (MTV’s ‘Mardi Gras’ Appearance 1987)
12. Rude Mood/Pipeline (Live) (MTV’s ‘Mardi Gras’ Appearance 1987) (Stevie Ray Vaughan and Jimmie Vaugha)
13. The Sky Is Crying (Live)
14. Voodoo Chile (Slight Return) (Recorded At Carnegie Hall, New York, New York 1984)
DISC THREE
1. Lookin’ Out The Window (Live)
2. Look At Little Sister (Live)
3. Willie The Wimp (Live) (Recorded At The Mann Music Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1987)
4. The House Is Rockin’ (Taken From The Album In Step 1989)
5. Crossfire (Live) (Recorded At Tingley Coliseum, Albuquerque, New Mexico 1989)
6. Wall Of Denial (Taken From The Album In Step 1989)
7. Dirty Pool (SRV Solo On Timothy White’s ‘Rock Lives’ Radio Program 1989) (Stevie Ray Vaughan)
8. Goin’ Down (Live) (Recorded At Tingley Coliseum, Albuquerque, New Mexico 1989) (Stevie Ray Vaughan and Jeff Beck)
9. Rude Mood (Live) (Stevie Ray Vaughan)
10. Pride And Joy (Live) (Stevie Ray Vaughan)
11. Testify (Live) (SRV Solo Acoustic From MTV’s ‘Unplugged’ 1990) (Stevie Ray Vaughan)
12. Long Way From Home (Taken From The Album Family Style 1990) (The Vaughan Brothers)
13. Tightrope (Live)
14. Cold Shot (Live) (Recorded In Houston, Texas 1990)
15. The Things (That) I Used To Do (Live)
16. Let Me Love You Baby (Live)
17. Leave My Girl Alone (Live)(Recorded At Alpine Valley, East Troy, Wisconsin 1990)
REVIEW
By Don McLeese
This career-spanning box of three CDs and a DVD celebrates a legacy that looms larger than that of any blues-rocking guitarist since Jimi Hendrix. Despite fears that a series of posthumous releases had depleted the Stevie Ray Vaughan vaults, previously unreleased gems dominate the selection. Highlights extend from Vaughan's swaggering apprenticeship with Paul Ray and the Cobras to slash-and-burn concert performances from the final month of his life. There are obligatory dips into the songbooks of Hendrix and Buddy Guy, appearances on MTV Unplugged and Austin City Limits, and instrumental interplay with brother Jimmie Vaughan and tourmate Jeff Beck. Though his guitar never loses its flamethrower intensity, the set documents his progression from the showoff licks of the young "Stevie Rave On" into a fully rounded artistry of soulful depth.
BIOGRAPHY
by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
With his astonishingly accomplished guitar playing, Stevie Ray Vaughan ignited the blues revival of the '80s. Vaughan drew equally from bluesmen like Albert King, Otis Rush, and Muddy Waters and rock & roll players like Jimi Hendrix and Lonnie Mack, as well as the stray jazz guitarist like Kenny Burrell, developing a uniquely eclectic and fiery style that sounded like no other guitarist, regardless of genre. Vaughan bridged the gap between blues and rock like no other artist had since the late '60s. For the next seven years, Stevie Ray was the leading light in American blues, consistently selling out concerts while his albums regularly went gold. His tragic death in 1990 only emphasized his influence in blues and American rock & roll.
Born and raised in Dallas, Vaughan began playing guitar as a child, inspired by older brother Jimmie. When he was in junior high school, he began playing in a number of garage bands, which occasionally landed gigs in local nightclubs. By the time he was 17, he had dropped out of high school to concentrate on playing music. Vaughan's first real band was the Cobras, who played clubs and bars in Austin during the mid-'70s. Following that group's demise, he formed Triple Threat in 1975. Triple Threat also featured bassist Jackie Newhouse, drummer Chris Layton, and vocalist Lou Ann Barton. After a few years of playing Texas bars and clubs, Barton left the band in 1978. The group decided to continue performing under the name Double Trouble, which was inspired by the Otis Rush song of the same name; Vaughan became the band's lead singer.
For the next few years, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble played the Austin area, becoming one of the most popular bands in Texas. In 1982, the band played the Montreux Festival and their performance caught the attention of David Bowie and Jackson Browne. After Double Trouble's performance, Bowie asked Vaughan to play on his forthcoming album, while Browne offered the group free recording time at his Los Angeles studio, Downtown; both offers were accepted. Stevie Ray laid down the lead guitar tracks for what became Bowie's Let's Dance album in late 1982. Shortly afterward, John Hammond, Sr. landed Vaughan and Double Trouble a record contract with Epic, and the band recorded its debut album in less than a week at Downtown.
Vaughan's debut album, Texas Flood, was released in the summer of 1983, a few months after Bowie's Let's Dance appeared. On its own, Let's Dance earned Vaughan quite a bit of attention, but Texas Flood was a blockbuster blues success; receiving positive reviews in both blues and rock publications, reaching number 38 on the charts, and crossing over to album rock radio stations. Bowie offered Vaughan the lead guitarist role for his 1983 stadium tour, but he turned him down, preferring to play with Double Trouble. Vaughan and Double Trouble set off on a successful tour and quickly recorded their second album, Couldn't Stand the Weather, which was released in May of 1984. The album was more successful than its predecessor, reaching number 31 on the charts; by the end of 1985, the album went gold. Double Trouble added keyboardist Reese Wynans in 1985, before they recorded their third album, Soul to Soul. The record was released in August 1985 and was also quite successful, reaching number 34 on the charts.
Although his professional career was soaring, Vaughan was sinking deep into alcoholism and drug addiction. Despite his declining health, Vaughan continued to push himself, releasing the double live album Live Alive in October of 1986 and launching an extensive American tour in early 1987. Following the tour, Vaughan checked into a rehabilitation clinic. The guitarist's time in rehab was kept fairly quiet, and for the next year Stevie Ray and Double Trouble were fairly inactive. Vaughan performed a number of concerts in 1988, including a headlining gig at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, and wrote his fourth album. The resulting record, In Step, appeared in June of 1989 and became his most successful album, peaking at number 33 on the charts, earning a Grammy for Best Contemporary Blues Recording, and going gold just over six months after its release.
In the spring of 1990, Stevie Ray recorded an album with his brother Jimmie, which was scheduled for release in the fall of the year. In the late summer of 1990, Vaughan and Double Trouble set out on an American headlining tour. On August 26, 1990, their East Troy, WI, gig concluded with an encore jam featuring guitarists Eric Clapton, Buddy Guy, Jimmie Vaughan, and Robert Cray. After the concert, Stevie Ray boarded a helicopter bound for Chicago. Minutes after its 12:30 a.m. takeoff, the helicopter crashed, killing Vaughan and the other four passengers. He was only 35 years old.
Family Style, Stevie Ray's duet album with Jimmie, appeared in October and entered the charts at number seven. Family Style began a series of posthumous releases that were as popular as the albums Vaughan released during his lifetime. The Sky Is Crying, a collection of studio outtakes compiled by Jimmie, was released in October of 1991; it entered the charts at number ten and went platinum three months after its release. In the Beginning, a recording of a Double Trouble concert in 1980, was released in the fall of 1992 and the compilation Greatest Hits was released in 1995. In 1999, Vaughan's original albums were remastered and reissued, with The Real Deal: Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 also appearing that year. 2000 saw the release of the four-disc box SRV, which concentrated heavily on outtakes, live performances, and rarities.
''S.R.VAUGHAN BOX SET, DISC ONE''
NOVEMBER 21, 2000
230:35
DISC ONE
1. Thunderbird (Recorded In Austin, Texas 1977) (Paul Ray & The Cobras)
2. I’m Cryin’
3. You’re Gonna Miss Me Baby (Recorded During An Austin, Texas Soundcheck 1979)
4. They Call Me Guitar Hurricane (Live)
5. All Your Love I Miss Loving (Live) (Recorded At The Steamboat In Austin, Texas 1980)
6. Come On (Pt.III)
7. Letter To My Girlfriend
8. Lenny (KUT-FM Radio Performance, Austin, Texas 1981)
9. Don’t Lose Your Cool (Live)
10. Crosscut Saw (Live)
11. Manic Depression (Live) (Recorded At Fitzgerald’s Club, Houston, Texas 1981)
12. Texas Flood (Live)
13. Collins’ Shuffle (Live) (Recorded At The Montreux International Jazz Festival 1982)
14. Pride And Joy (Taken From The Album Texas Flood 1982)
15. Love Struck Baby (First ‘Austin City Limits’ Television Appearance 1983)
16. Hug You, Squeeze You (Live) (Recorded At The El Mocambo, Toronto, Canada 1983)
17. Don’t Stop By The Creek, Son (Taken From The Album Texas Twister 1982) (Johnny Copeland with Stevie Ray Vaughan)
18. Ask Me No Questions (Taken From The Album In Session 1983) (Albert King with Stevie Ray Vaughan)
DISC TWO
1. Scuttle Buttin’
2. Couldn’t Stand The Weather (Taken From The Album Couldn’t Stand The Weather 1984)
3. Empty Arms (Taken From The Album The Sky Is Crying 1984)
4. Little Wing/Third Stone From The Sun (Live) (CBS Records Convention, Honolulu, Hawaii 1984)
5. If You Have To Know (Taken From The Album Strike Like Lightning 1984) (Lonnie Mack with Stevie Ray Vaughan)
6. These Blues Is Killing Me (Taken From The Album I’m In The Wrong Business 1984) (A.C. Reed with Stevie Ray Vaughan)
7. Boilermaker (Outtake From The Soul To Soul Sessions 1985)
8. Change It (Taken From The Album Soul To Soul 1985)
9. Shake ‘N Bake (Outtake From The Soul To Soul Sessions 1985)
10. Mary Had A Little Lamb (Live) (Taken From The Album Living Alive 1985)
11. I’m Leavin’ You (Commit A Crime) (Live) (MTV’s ‘Mardi Gras’ Appearance 1987)
12. Rude Mood/Pipeline (Live) (MTV’s ‘Mardi Gras’ Appearance 1987) (Stevie Ray Vaughan and Jimmie Vaugha)
13. The Sky Is Crying (Live)
14. Voodoo Chile (Slight Return) (Recorded At Carnegie Hall, New York, New York 1984)
DISC THREE
1. Lookin’ Out The Window (Live)
2. Look At Little Sister (Live)
3. Willie The Wimp (Live) (Recorded At The Mann Music Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1987)
4. The House Is Rockin’ (Taken From The Album In Step 1989)
5. Crossfire (Live) (Recorded At Tingley Coliseum, Albuquerque, New Mexico 1989)
6. Wall Of Denial (Taken From The Album In Step 1989)
7. Dirty Pool (SRV Solo On Timothy White’s ‘Rock Lives’ Radio Program 1989) (Stevie Ray Vaughan)
8. Goin’ Down (Live) (Recorded At Tingley Coliseum, Albuquerque, New Mexico 1989) (Stevie Ray Vaughan and Jeff Beck)
9. Rude Mood (Live) (Stevie Ray Vaughan)
10. Pride And Joy (Live) (Stevie Ray Vaughan)
11. Testify (Live) (SRV Solo Acoustic From MTV’s ‘Unplugged’ 1990) (Stevie Ray Vaughan)
12. Long Way From Home (Taken From The Album Family Style 1990) (The Vaughan Brothers)
13. Tightrope (Live)
14. Cold Shot (Live) (Recorded In Houston, Texas 1990)
15. The Things (That) I Used To Do (Live)
16. Let Me Love You Baby (Live)
17. Leave My Girl Alone (Live)(Recorded At Alpine Valley, East Troy, Wisconsin 1990)
REVIEW
By Don McLeese
This career-spanning box of three CDs and a DVD celebrates a legacy that looms larger than that of any blues-rocking guitarist since Jimi Hendrix. Despite fears that a series of posthumous releases had depleted the Stevie Ray Vaughan vaults, previously unreleased gems dominate the selection. Highlights extend from Vaughan's swaggering apprenticeship with Paul Ray and the Cobras to slash-and-burn concert performances from the final month of his life. There are obligatory dips into the songbooks of Hendrix and Buddy Guy, appearances on MTV Unplugged and Austin City Limits, and instrumental interplay with brother Jimmie Vaughan and tourmate Jeff Beck. Though his guitar never loses its flamethrower intensity, the set documents his progression from the showoff licks of the young "Stevie Rave On" into a fully rounded artistry of soulful depth.
BIOGRAPHY
by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
With his astonishingly accomplished guitar playing, Stevie Ray Vaughan ignited the blues revival of the '80s. Vaughan drew equally from bluesmen like Albert King, Otis Rush, and Muddy Waters and rock & roll players like Jimi Hendrix and Lonnie Mack, as well as the stray jazz guitarist like Kenny Burrell, developing a uniquely eclectic and fiery style that sounded like no other guitarist, regardless of genre. Vaughan bridged the gap between blues and rock like no other artist had since the late '60s. For the next seven years, Stevie Ray was the leading light in American blues, consistently selling out concerts while his albums regularly went gold. His tragic death in 1990 only emphasized his influence in blues and American rock & roll.
Born and raised in Dallas, Vaughan began playing guitar as a child, inspired by older brother Jimmie. When he was in junior high school, he began playing in a number of garage bands, which occasionally landed gigs in local nightclubs. By the time he was 17, he had dropped out of high school to concentrate on playing music. Vaughan's first real band was the Cobras, who played clubs and bars in Austin during the mid-'70s. Following that group's demise, he formed Triple Threat in 1975. Triple Threat also featured bassist Jackie Newhouse, drummer Chris Layton, and vocalist Lou Ann Barton. After a few years of playing Texas bars and clubs, Barton left the band in 1978. The group decided to continue performing under the name Double Trouble, which was inspired by the Otis Rush song of the same name; Vaughan became the band's lead singer.
For the next few years, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble played the Austin area, becoming one of the most popular bands in Texas. In 1982, the band played the Montreux Festival and their performance caught the attention of David Bowie and Jackson Browne. After Double Trouble's performance, Bowie asked Vaughan to play on his forthcoming album, while Browne offered the group free recording time at his Los Angeles studio, Downtown; both offers were accepted. Stevie Ray laid down the lead guitar tracks for what became Bowie's Let's Dance album in late 1982. Shortly afterward, John Hammond, Sr. landed Vaughan and Double Trouble a record contract with Epic, and the band recorded its debut album in less than a week at Downtown.
Vaughan's debut album, Texas Flood, was released in the summer of 1983, a few months after Bowie's Let's Dance appeared. On its own, Let's Dance earned Vaughan quite a bit of attention, but Texas Flood was a blockbuster blues success; receiving positive reviews in both blues and rock publications, reaching number 38 on the charts, and crossing over to album rock radio stations. Bowie offered Vaughan the lead guitarist role for his 1983 stadium tour, but he turned him down, preferring to play with Double Trouble. Vaughan and Double Trouble set off on a successful tour and quickly recorded their second album, Couldn't Stand the Weather, which was released in May of 1984. The album was more successful than its predecessor, reaching number 31 on the charts; by the end of 1985, the album went gold. Double Trouble added keyboardist Reese Wynans in 1985, before they recorded their third album, Soul to Soul. The record was released in August 1985 and was also quite successful, reaching number 34 on the charts.
Although his professional career was soaring, Vaughan was sinking deep into alcoholism and drug addiction. Despite his declining health, Vaughan continued to push himself, releasing the double live album Live Alive in October of 1986 and launching an extensive American tour in early 1987. Following the tour, Vaughan checked into a rehabilitation clinic. The guitarist's time in rehab was kept fairly quiet, and for the next year Stevie Ray and Double Trouble were fairly inactive. Vaughan performed a number of concerts in 1988, including a headlining gig at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, and wrote his fourth album. The resulting record, In Step, appeared in June of 1989 and became his most successful album, peaking at number 33 on the charts, earning a Grammy for Best Contemporary Blues Recording, and going gold just over six months after its release.
In the spring of 1990, Stevie Ray recorded an album with his brother Jimmie, which was scheduled for release in the fall of the year. In the late summer of 1990, Vaughan and Double Trouble set out on an American headlining tour. On August 26, 1990, their East Troy, WI, gig concluded with an encore jam featuring guitarists Eric Clapton, Buddy Guy, Jimmie Vaughan, and Robert Cray. After the concert, Stevie Ray boarded a helicopter bound for Chicago. Minutes after its 12:30 a.m. takeoff, the helicopter crashed, killing Vaughan and the other four passengers. He was only 35 years old.
Family Style, Stevie Ray's duet album with Jimmie, appeared in October and entered the charts at number seven. Family Style began a series of posthumous releases that were as popular as the albums Vaughan released during his lifetime. The Sky Is Crying, a collection of studio outtakes compiled by Jimmie, was released in October of 1991; it entered the charts at number ten and went platinum three months after its release. In the Beginning, a recording of a Double Trouble concert in 1980, was released in the fall of 1992 and the compilation Greatest Hits was released in 1995. In 1999, Vaughan's original albums were remastered and reissued, with The Real Deal: Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 also appearing that year. 2000 saw the release of the four-disc box SRV, which concentrated heavily on outtakes, live performances, and rarities.
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