The Sky Is Crying

Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble - The Sky Is Crying

The Sky Is Crying
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Artist: Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble
Edition: Music CD
Published: 1991
CD Release Date: 1991-11-05
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
  1. Boot Hill
  2. Sky Is Crying
  3. Empty Arms
  4. Little Wing
  5. Wham!
  6. May I Have a Talk With You
  7. Close to You
  8. Chitlins con Carne
  9. So Excited
  10. Life by the Drop

Free Music Notes for The Sky Is Crying

Free Music Review: Posthumous perfection
Hit: 5 Stars

Collections of this sort are frequently uneven and often feel patched together. There are usually rough demos and half finished bits that someone has gone through and tried to sew together into a viable album.
This is definitely NOT one of those albums. From start to finish this posthumous collection of SRV's work feels solid and tight, as though it was actually meant to be an album right from the start.
The title track and cover of Elmore James' The Sky is Crying exudes every inch of sadness fans felt at the death of Vaughan. His cover of Hendix's Little Wing is simply sublime and the closing Life By The Drop is a heartfelt and hard earned acoustic tale of alcoholism defeated.
In between those highlights are pieces that are every bit as perfect and every bit as memorable as anything the guitar master ever recorded.
In an odd way this may be may favorite of Vaughan's releases. Perhaps my judgement of it is colored just slightly with his loss to the world, but in truth I think it really does stand up as one of his finest releases.

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Released after Vaughan's death in a 1990 helicopter accident, The Sky Is Crying collects unreleased studio tracks from throughout the guitarist's recorded career. In Vaughan's early years, he was a stylist who thought nothing of using ten notes when three would have worked. Rock stardom, cocaine, and alcohol did little to temper his tendency towards overstatement, but by In Step, his last studio album (and first clean-and-sober effort), he'd begun to transcend his many influences to forge a hard-boiled style of his own. The collection documents this passage, starting with unreleased covers of Lonnie Mack's "Wham" and Jimi Hendrix's "Little Wing" from the time of his debut album. "The Sky Is Crying" was originally cut by Elmore James, but Vaughan's lead guitar owes its stylistic debt to the bluesman who had a most profound influence on his playing, Albert King. The highlights are two tracks cut at the time of In Step--the hard-edged "Boot Hill," with Vaughan on slide guitar, and "Life by the Drop," in which Vaughan accompanies himself on acoustic guitar and toasts a life that would end far too soon. --John Milward

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