Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble - In Step
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Artist: Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double TroubleEdition: Music CD
Format: Extra tracks, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1999-03-23
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- The House Is Rockin'
- Crossfire
- Tightrope
- Let Me Love You Baby
- Leave My Girl Alone
- Travis Walk
- Wall Of Denial
- Scratch `N' Sniff
- Love Me Darlin'
- Riviera Paradise
- SRV Speaks - (previously unreleased)
- The House Is Rockin' (previously unreleased, live)
- Let Me Love You Baby - (previously unreleased, live)
- Texas Flood - (previously unreleased, live)
- Life Without You - (previously unreleased, live)
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Free Music Review: (4.5 stars) IN STEP... STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN SOULFULLY ROCKIN' THE BLUES ! (SRV's last album)
Hit: 5 Stars
Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble's In Step (1989) finds SRV clean and sober yet still as intense and powerful as ever. Sadly, this would be their last album as Stevie was tragically killed in a helicopter crash one year after In Step was released. On October 3, 2008, Stevie Ray Vaughan would have been fifty four years old.
In Step is a very good album with several great songs on it. It features more rock and funky soul music than straight up blues, and that's OK with me even though I love the blues. Stevie's singing is as impassioned here as it ever has been, and his guitar work is spectacular as ever. He does include some traditional blues, most notably his SRV slow blues treatment of Buddy Guy's Leave My Girl Alone. It's no Texas Flood, but if you lean your head back and close your eyes, it will get you to where you want the blues to take you. He does a romp n' rockin' version of Willie Dixon's Let Me Love You Baby and this ripping cover of Howlin' Wolf's Love Me Darlin' sounds like something out of fellow Texas bluesman Johnny Winter's playbook.
Crossfire is the big winner on the album. It's a soulful and rockin' tune that includes a horn section and sounds like bluesy soul music with a powerful blues/rock electric guitar. It's a lonely plea for help from a disillusioned soul who has been left to fend for himself in a world full of greed and thoughtlessness.
I am stranded, caught in the crossfire
I need some kind of kindness
Some kind of sympathy
Tightrope and Wall Of Denial are also good bluesy rockin' soul music tunes that feature Stevie's intense guitar solos. It seems that Stevie wanted to explore new ways to express himself and still stay true to his blues roots on this album, and he is successful at both. The 1950s rock and boogie anthem The House Is Rockin' is a lot of fun and it rocks, too.
When the house is a rockin' don't bother knockin'
When the house is a rockin' don't bother, come on in
Stevie really charts new waters with the 9:00 minute sexy smooth jazz instrumental, Riviera Paradise. Slow and mood altering, this beauty highlights Stevie's guitar talents in an entirely different way while it changes the listener's atmosphere to tranquility in aqua blue.
I always say that the best SRV is live SRV. I was fortunate enough to see Stevie live at the Norfolk Scope in 1985. I treasure that memory. There are five bonus tracks on this edition of In Step, the first being an "SRV Speaks" segment where Stevie talks about his last "regular" job in a kitchen that ended in disaster. The other four bonus tracks are live recordings from the fateful In Step Tour including an excellent 7:28 minute version of Texas Flood. Life Without You closes the album, and at 13:17 minutes, the song is well worth the price of admission here. It features two smokin' extended guitar solos that are as good or better than anything Stevie ever did. He also gets serious for several minutes during the song and talks about cleaning up his act and being there for the people who love him. It's an interesting and revealing insight into Stevie Ray Vaughan, and who he really was.
In Step won two Grammy Awards; one in 1989 for Best Traditional Blues Album, and one in 1990 for Best Contemporary Blues Album.
You really can't go wrong with this album if you like Stevie Ray Vaughan and his music. The essence and passion of SRV are clearly experienced here, and even though this isn't the blues/rock monument that Texas Flood is, it is every bit as powerful as anything SRV ever did, and even more interesting in a lot of ways because it's something different. This stuff can put sand in your crawl and bring tears to your eyes.
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