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Stevie Ray Vaughan And Double Trouble: Live Alive (CD)

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"Live Alive", originally released in 1986, is an important album of the blues genre, compiled from four live concerts by STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN and DOUBLE TROUBLE.

The concerts were recorded in 1985 at the Montreux Jazz Festival (July 16), at the Austin Opera House (July 17 and 18) and at the Dallas Starfest (July 19). This great live album is packed with song gems from STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN's first three albums; joined by a terrific version of "Willie The Wimp" with his brother Jimmy (who also appears on "Love Struck Baby," "Look At Little Sister" and "Change It").

The track list reveals some of VAUGHAN's biggest influences: JIMI HENDRIX "(Voodoo Child (Slight Return)"), STEVIE WONDER ("Superstition"), HOWLIN' WOLF ("Commit A Crime") and BUDDY GUY.

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Interpret: Stevie Ray Vaughan And Double Trouble
Album titlle: Live Alive (CD)
Label EPIC
Genre Blues
Artikelart CD
EAN: 2500001062765
weight in Kg 0.11

Vaughan, Stevie Ray - Live Alive (CD) CD 1
01	Say what!	Stevie Ray Vaughan And Double Trouble
02	Ain't Gonna Give Up On Love	Stevie Ray Vaughan And Double Trouble
03	Pride And Joy	Stevie Ray Vaughan And Double Trouble
04	Mary Had A Little Lamb	Stevie Ray Vaughan And Double Trouble
05	Superstition	Stevie Ray Vaughan And Double Trouble
06	I'm leavin' you (Commit a crime)	Stevie Ray Vaughan And Double Trouble
07	Cold Shot	Stevie Ray Vaughan And Double Trouble
08	Willie The Wimp	Stevie Ray Vaughan And Double Trouble

Vaughan, Stevie Ray - Live Alive (CD) CD 2
01	Look At Little Sister	Stevie Ray Vaughan And Double Trouble
02	Texas Flood	Stevie Ray Vaughan And Double Trouble
03	Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)	Stevie Ray Vaughan And Double Trouble
04	Love Struck Baby	Stevie Ray Vaughan And Double Trouble
05	Change It	Stevie Ray Vaughan And Double Trouble
06	Life without you	Stevie Ray Vaughan And Double Trouble

Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble Texas was always ground zero for groundbreaking blues... more

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"Stevie Ray Vaughan And Double Trouble"

Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble

Texas was always ground zero for groundbreaking blues guitarists. Stevie Ray Vaughan came out of that hallowed Lone Star tradition and injected a heady blast of rock into his savage attack. Not only were Freddy and Albert King, Johnny ‘Guitar' Watson, and Lonnie Mack among his heroes, Vaughan drew much from the sonic bombast of Jimi Hendrix, covering several of his best-known pieces.

Born October 3, 1954 in Dallas, Stevie followed in his older brother Jimmie's footsteps as a blues guitarist. Stevie dropped out of high school, moved to Austin in 1972, and played in Krackerjack, the Nightcrawlers, and Paul Ray & the Cobras before forming the Triple Threat Revue with singing bassist W.C. Clark and vocalist Lou Ann Barton. Several members left within a year, so Stevie and Lou Ann formed Double Trouble, named after Otis Rush's seminal '58 Cobra single. Barton soon split to join Roomful of Blues, so Stevie was Double Trouble's sole front man by the dawn of the 1980s.

Former Atlantic Records honcho Jerry Wexler was so impressed with the group that he helped them nail down a slot at the '82 Montreux Jazz Festival—a real rarity for an unsigned band. David Bowie saw Vaughan there and hired him to play on Bowie's 1983 album ‘Let's Dance.' The band had cut a demo tape at Jackson Browne's L.A. studio that eventually found its way to legendary producer John Hammond, who helped get them signed to Epic Records. Double Trouble was by then Vaughan, bassist Tommy Shannon, and drummer Chris Layton, and their stripped-down Texas trio sound fairly leaped out of the grooves of their '83 Epic debut set ‘Texas Flood.' Its title track was the 1958 Duke classic by Larry Davis, and Stevie's own rocking Pride And Joy was one of the album's standouts, thanks to Vaughan's twangy, lightning-bolt axe and drawled vocal.

Vaughan and Double Trouble followed it up the next year with another acclaimed hit LP, ‘Couldn't Stand The Weather.' Drug use threatened to derail Vaughan's momentum more than once, but he and Double Trouble released ‘Soul To Soul' in 1985, ‘Live Alive' the next year, and after he'd cleaned up his act, ‘In Step' in '89. There was also a 1990 collaboration with his brother Jimmie, ‘Family Style.'

Tragically, Vaughan was killed in a Wisconsin helicopter crash on August 27, 1990 after an appearance at Alpine Valley Music Theatre on a star-studded bill with Eric Clapton, Buddy Guy, and Robert Cray. Judging from the countless Stevie Ray imitators still on the scene to this day, he'll never be forgotten.

Bill Dahl

Chicago, Illinois

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