1. Sky Is Crying - A. King, B.B. King 	
2. Soulful Dress - Marcia Bell 	
3. Don't Stop by the Creek - Johnny Copeland 	
4. Miami Strut - A.C. Reed 	
5. Na-Na-Ne-Na-Nay 	
6. Goin' Down - Jeff Beck 	
7. Oreo Cookie Blues - Lonnie Mack 	
8. On the Run - Katie Webster 	
9. Albert's Shuffle - Albert Collins 	
10. Change It - The SNL Horns, Jimmie Vaughan 	
11. You Can Have My Husband - Lou Ann Barton 	
12. Texas Flood - Bonnie Raitt 	
13. Pipeline 	
14. Let's Dance - David Bowie 	


Produced for Legacy Recordings by Bob Irwin
A&R assistance: Vince Payne and Craig Hopkins
Mastered by Vic Anesini at Sony Music Studios, New York
Special thanks to Harvey Leeds, Jimmie Vaughan, Vince Payne and Craig Hopkins . . . . 
 
Posted 08nov07
 

Music DVD Review
SRV & Double Trouble - Pride and Joy
Written by Ray Ellis
Published November 05, 2007

Remembering a Blues Great

Every kid growing up in Texas who ever picked up a guitar wanted to play the blues at one time or another. You can hear it in any music that’s ever come out of Texas, whether it’s rock and roll, country and western, or even mainstream pop. Give a Texan a guitar, and strings are going to bend. Playing the blues and making the blues come alive are two different things, however. Stevie Ray Vaughan, in a recording career that barely spanned seven years, reimagined electric blues, and transformed the genre forever.

While most press links Stevie Ray Vaughan to Austin, he had a huge following in Dallas long before his major label debut in 1983. I used to see him and Double Trouble at a tiny venue called St. Christopher’s. It was a pool hall/bar that also booked bands. It didn’t have a stage to speak of—just a corner of the club for the band to play. To call it “intimate” would be charitable—it was the definition of a dive, and I mean that in the most convivial way possible. It was the kind of place that didn’t enforce capacity codes efficiently, but it did have a helluva jukebox. It was always crowded and hot, and when Stevie Ray and Double Trouble played, it was a lot hotter.

You can get a rough idea, albeit a bit cleaned up, as to what St. Christopher’s was like on the “Love Struck Baby” video, which introduces the DVD release of Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble: Pride and Joy. Originally released shortly after Vaughan’s untimely death in 1990, Pride and Joy was a collection of the six videos released to promote the albums Texas Flood, Couldn’t Stand the Weather and Crossfire. In its original version, it also included a live version of “I’m Leaving You (Commit a Crime)” and a sorta “live” performance of “Superstition” (the audio from the latter was from a live performance, but the video was staged).

Technically, the DVD version of Pride and Joy is a reissue of the 1990 release, but only in the narrowest of definitions. This new release not only expands the original’s half-hour length to over 70 minutes, but benefits from remixed stereo and 5.1 Dolby audio enhancements. Besides being crystalline both in audio and video, the DVD also has a clearer sense of Vaughan’s historical significance. Now at seventeen tracks, the DVD is more a chronicle of his too-short career than the ragtag collection of MTV promo clips that the original was.

Those clips are still there, of course, and they still hold up musically, if somewhat dated visually. They date from the days when MTV actually promoted music via video, and still have a certain nostalgic charm about them. Despite their mini-movie style, and even though they hardly showcased the intricacies of his style, it’s a fact they helped promote Vaughan’s abilities to a wider audience. Three previously unreleased performances from MTV’s Unplugged series rectify that. On “Rude Mood,” “Pride and Joy” and “Testify,” Vaughan channels all his flash into a 12-string acoustic, with results every bit as electrifying as his signature Stratocaster performances.

The DVD also includes posthumously released promo videos from the album The Vaughan Brothers, the album Vaughan was working on with his brother Jimmie Vaughan shortly before the helicopter crash that took Stevie Ray’s life. Most haunting, though, is the inclusion of his instrumental version of Jimi Hendrix’s “Little Wing.” Besides being a haunting rendition of the tune, it’s a visual montage of great guitarists, most, but not all of whom have passed. There’s a fleeting instant depicting Stevie Ray Vaughan performing.

A talent like Stevie Ray Vaughan comes along only once every couple of generations—and that’s if we’re lucky. The sting of irony is that those talents invariably seem to leave us too quickly. Pride and Joy falls short of being a definitive chronicle of Stevie Ray Vaughan’s life. It focuses more on his videos, which were, as the industry demands, oriented to wide audiences. Still, it offers moments of insight into his short life. And it’s all done with his beloved Stratocasters as the main star. There's no narration, nothing extraneous--just the man and his guitar working in unearthly synchronocity.

I think he would have wanted it that way.

Posted 08nov07

Thanks Paul.

Guitar World Legends is a series of special issue magazines, usually focused on one area of musical interest

This issue is of Stevie Ray Vaughan. It will be on newstands until October 18th.

Headlines include:

4 Spectacular SRV Interviews!
Never Before Seen Photos
The Secrets Of His Incredible Guitar Sound!
The Complete Story Of His Life & Death
A Look Inside Stevie's Greatest Recording Sessions
Transcribed! How To Play SRV's Greatest Hits
(Crossfire, Look At Little Sister, Texas Flood, Mary Had A Little Lamb, Tell Me, Scuttle Buttin')

The upcoming 2-DVD set will be the visual companion to Epic/Legacy's 2001 release of the 2-CD set "Live at Montreux 1982 & 1985." The package features the concert from 1982 (same track listing as the earlier CD set) as well as the concert from 1985 (track listing features two additional tracks that did not appear on the CD). In addition, this set will include a newly-created documentary about the shows, featuring on-camera interviews with Jackson Browne, John Mayer, and Tommy Shannon and Chris Layton of Double Trouble.

By the summer of 1982, Stevie Ray Vaughan was already a veteran of the Southern blues circuit. Desperately searching for his big break, he was asked to play "Blues Night" at the annual Montreux Jazz Festival in Montreux, Switzerland. Playing like his life depended on it, Stevie put on a fiery performance - full of future SRV classics like "Pride And Joy" and "Love Struck Baby." The audience could not have cared less. Every song Stevie played was greeted by an increasing wave of boos and hisses and he left the stage bewildered and heart-broken.

As fate would have it, this would be the most important single show Stevie ever played. In attendance at the festival were two figures who would prove instrumental in Stevie's subsequent rise to stardom: David Bowie and Jackson Browne. They immediately recognized Stevie's raw talent and limitless passion. As a result, Jackson Browne offered Stevie the opportunity to record (free of charge) at his own studio--the tapes that would be Texas Flood--Stevie's first studio album for Epic Records. In addition, Stevie was asked to play on Bowie's hugely successful Let's Dance album and tour.

Three years later, when Stevie was invited back to headline "Blues Night" at the festival, the crowd, now familiar with Stevie's songs and albums treated him like the conquering hero. And Stevie again played like his life depended on it - because, as we all came to recognize and respect, that was the only way he knew how.

TRACK LISTING
DISC ONE - July 17, 1982

1. Hide Away
2. Rude Mood
3. Pride And Joy
4. Texas Flood
5. Love Struck Baby
6. Dirty Pool
7. Give Me Back My Wig
8. Collins' Shuffle

DISC TWO - July 15, 1985

1. Scuttle Buttin'
2. Say What!
3. Ain't Gone N' Give Up On Love
4. Pride And Joy
5. Mary Had A Little Lamb
6. COLD SHOT* (with Johnny Copeland)
7. Tin Pan Alley (aka Roughest Place In Town) (with Johnny Copeland)
8. LITTLE SISTER* (with Johnny Copeland)
9. Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
10. Texas Flood
11. Life Without You
12. Gone Home
13. Couldn't Stand The Weather

*DVD BONUS TRACK

DIRECT MEDIA INQUIRIES TO:
LegacyMediaRelations@sonymusic.com

ADDRESS TEARSHEETS TO:

Tom Cording or Randy Haecker
SONY LEGACY
550 Madison Avenue, 17th floor
New York, NY 10022-3211

1973 Nightcrawlers album to be released? Marc Benno is allegedly trying to clear legal hurdles to release the album recorded in 1973 featuring Stevie Vaughan and Doyle Bramhall among the band members. (submitted by Dirk)

Sony/Epic released this double-CD set on October 1st.