Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble - Essential Stevie Ray Vaughan
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Free Music Review: Every Stevie Ray fan should have this one....
Hit: 5 Stars
This is an excellent CD set from SRV, has some of his best music on it and can be listened to for hours.Free Music Review: The Man
Hit: 5 Stars
What else can i say other than Stevie ray Vaughn is the MAN and everyone should listen to all his music.Free Music Review: 4 1/2 stars. A terrific introduction to the finest blues guitarist to emerge since the 60s
Hit: 4 Stars
First of all, yes, there are more Stevie Ray Vaughan compilations out there than original studio releases. But there are only a few of them which are really any good, and this is one of them.
There are 33 tracks here, excactly one more than on the obvious alternative of "The Real Deal: Greatest Hits vol. 1" and "The Real Deal: Greatest Hits vol. 2" combined. And almost all of Stevie Ray's must-have songs are here: The swaggering "Pride And Joy", the scorching blues "Texas Flood", the melodic "Cold Shot", the rollicking boogie of "Look At Little Sister", the wonderful riff-rocker "Willie The Wimp", and several other career highlights, including the intense and touching acoustic "Life By The Drop", and a sizzling cover of Hound Dog Taylor's "Give Me Back My Wig".
The slow blues tunes "Dirty Pool" and "Ain't Gone 'n' Give Up On Love" are missing, however, and the delightful rocker "Lookin' Out The Window" is, too, and that's a minus for this one and a plus in the "Real Deal" column. (Which one did I choose? Well, I have all of the original albums, so I don't really need a compilation on top of that, but now that "The Real Deal vol. 1" has replaced the original lousy 11-track "Greatest Hits" album from 1995, I might be tempted to lean towards the "Real Deal" vol. 1 and 2 double. But it's damn close!)
I would've given a clean five stars here if those three songs that I just mentioned had been included, and I almost did anyway, because the stuff that _is_ here is excellent, absolutely stellar. You'll rarely find a 33-track compilation which maintains such an amazing level of quality all the way through, nor such a varied and yet completely cohesive collection of songs. And if you don't want to invest in the even more fabulous "SRV"-box set, you should either go for this one or the two "Real Deal" CDs right away.
Free Music Review: The Essential SRV & DT
Hit: 4 Stars
As best-of collections go, this one is pretty great. They could not have made this much better without including a third disc - at which point would have become a box set.
One limitation of this set is that, in an attempt to include his more serious, "important" stuff, they've had to leave off some of his *funnest* songs - like "Honey Bee" (from Couldn't Stand The Weather), "Travis Walk" (from In Step), and the studio version of "Rude Mood" (from Texas Flood).
Major kudos to the compilers, however, for the insanely good live tracks they included. There's "Shake For Me," a racous, super-fast live track from his early days on the Austin blues club circuit (from In The Beginning), the incredible "Rude Mood/Hideaway" medley, which makes Cream and The Hendrix Experience look like soft rock trios (from Live At Montreaux), and an 11+ minute rendition of my all-time favorite guitar song, "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)," from the SRV box set. The live "Voodoo Child" is so good (and so distinctly Stevie) that I'm thinking about dropping $35 for the box set after all.
My advice: Stop reading and go buy this collection, let it blow you away, and later worry about what ELSE to get by him. This is an awesome intro to get a person into SRV - it was mine.
Free Music Review: Vaughan is a guitar blues legend--find out why!
Hit: 4 Stars
I was unfamiliar with Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble when I purchased this album. Being a guitarist, I'd of course heard of him; but I didn't know what to expect. Obviously, I wasn't disappointed with what I heard!
Vaughan has a way with the blues. That's putting it simply. Whether picking out Hendrix on "Little Wing" or singing of his baby on his own "Pride and Joy," Vaughan is incredible. With minimal production and raw attitude, he transforms gives the blues a rock edge: one that's enjoyable and awe-inspiring. All of these tunes are great examples of what a merger between rock and blues sounds like; maybe we'll throw in a little country, too, just for the heck of it. What you get is this: a cool, rollickin sound like none other.
"The Essential Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble" is a must-have for blues/rock fans. In it, you'll find great musicianship, skillful songwriting, and soul. You'll also find some of Vaughan's musical influences; as he quips at the end of one of the live tracks, "It's fun playing Hendrix in Carnegie Hall." It's fun listening to it, too.