Stevie Ray Vaughan - Solos, Sessions & Encores
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Free Music Review: More SRV
Hit: 4 Stars
Another great CD with various cuts with other musicians including Albert and B.B King, and brother Jimmy to name a few. Classic songs and a must for a SRV collection.Free Music Review: Some Gems
Hit: 4 Stars
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!Free Music Review: Hit and Miss
Hit: 3 Stars
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.
Free Music Review: Essential for collectors...
Hit: 3 Stars
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.
Free Music Review: Just enjoy it
Hit: 3 Stars
What is wrong with some of these people? I don't think Stevie Ray is coming out of his grave to put out any new material. Enjoy it for what it is, material from the vault that most people haven't heard. Hendrix stuff has been coming out almost 40 years after his death. Zappa has almost 200 hours of material stashed away. The record companies suck, it's true, but this is for the hardcore fan. Stop bitching. I don't normally post but some of you guys are ridiculous.