| | |  | Television | Home » » » Solos, Sessions & Encores | | | | | | | Product Promotions: | | | | | Description: | | 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 | | | Product Details: | | | Audio CD Release Date:
| November 06, 2007 | | Studio:
| Sony Legacy | | Number Of Discs:
| 1 | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 29 reviews |
| | | Track Listing: | | | 1. | The Sky Is Crying | | 2. | Soulful Dress | | 3. | Don't Stop By the Creek, Son | | 4. | Miami Strut | | 5. | Na-Na-Ne-Na-Nay | | 6. | Goin' Down | | 7. | Oreo Cookie Blues | | 8. | On the Run | | 9. | Albert's Shuffle | | 10. | Change It | | 11. | You Can Have My Husband | | 12. | Texas Flood | | 13. | Pipeline | | 14. | Let's Dance | |
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 Hit and MissJul 20, 2010
When an album is created featuring the work of many artists, even with a genius like Stevie Ray Vaughan to tie them all together, it can be overwhelming. There are approaches to blues on this CD, all fine, and probably wonderful on their own. Put together, on one CD, it is hit and miss.
While Pipeline, featuring SRV and Dick Dale, is an instant classic and on my IPod's Top 25, Miami Strut, with AC Reed and Na-Na-Ne-Na-Nay with Bill Carter, could have been left off the compilation. Plus, Let's Dance, David Bowie? I realize the CD Let's Dance,kick started SRV's career, but Cat People would have been a better choice, with the rugged riffing guitar work.
Not to poo-poo all over this CD, there are other good songs. Albert's Shuffle, with Albert Collins smokes. Four songs featuring women lead singers are good, and lend interesting, "new" wrinkles to SRV's work. Those songs are You Can Have My Husband, with Lou Ann Barton, On the Run with Katie Webster, Soulful Dress by Marcia Ball and Texas Flood, with Bonnie Raitt. The first mentioned may be the best of the four, filled with wry Blues humor. Texas Flood, however, is also very good, a cool blues with some serious guitar work.
For a SRV completist, don't bother listening to me, just pick it up. For someone who likes SRV and wants to get something a little more off the beaten path, perhaps a bit meaty, get the SRV Box. It is a little more SRV as leader, with touches of special guests and early bands.
While this may be seen as a record company money grab, with a little under half of this CD being previously released, this CD, at a reasonable price, is worth it for Pipeline alone. Add the aforementioned Albert's Shuffle, and Texas Flood, and it's worth the three stars, maybe half a star more.
 Same old stuff but still greatJun 28, 2010
There really isn't anything on this album that will blow you away and if you are a huge SRV fan then you probably already have most of these tracks on other albums. The main thing that this album does it put them all together on one single disc for you to have instead of trying to carry around 4 or 5 other albums with you. So, unless you are a diehard SRV fan you might want to just hold off on getting this album because you will probably be disappointed by the fact you already have these songs.
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Some GemsDec 21, 2009
This is worth having for the incendiary playing not least on Going Down with Jeff Beck, you can see the video of this on You Tube - amazing!
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 srv solos, sessions and encoresJun 22, 2009
sooooooo great to hear stevie again ! i hadn't heard this one before. what a nice surprize .
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Essential for collectors...Apr 20, 2009
This set is essential if you want to have a (almost) complete collection of SRV. However, my gripes are in the mixing, most noteably "Texas Flood" and "Sky Is Crying."
In "Texas Flood" Bonnie Raitt's guitar overpowers the mix and should have been remixed completely. With "Sky Is Crying" it is extremely apparent that this version was cut from a much longer one and you can here it 3:07. Even if this song were 20 minutes long I would have preferred a full version over the inclusion of "Oreo Cookie Blues" or "Pipeline."
I dig this disc for the inclusion of a handful of Stevie's guest appearances (for more you'll have to Google his discography to see other artist's whose music he had guested on). But the mixes could have been better.
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