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STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN:
Soul to Soul
Guitar Recorded Versions
Say What · Lookin' Out The Window · Look At Little
Sister · Ain't Gone N' Give Up On Love · Gone Home
· Change It · You'll Be Mine · Empty Arms
· Come On (Part III) · Life Without You. Includes
photos.
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Inventory #HL690025
Book $19.95 (US)
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Stevie Ray Vaughan
In 1983, Stevie Ray Vaughan’s tunes "Pride and Joy"
and "Lenny" began trickling onto the airwaves and the
blues and rock worlds did a simultaneous double take and a "What
the hell was that?" unlike anything since Jimi Hendrix’s
ascension in 1967. The power and the passion of his playing was
unmistakable from hearing only the first few bars - here was a
force to be reckoned with, a new sound from old sounds distilled
into a blazing mix of nuance and ferocity.
A native Texan based in Austin, Vaughan and his brother Jimmie
had honed their chops for years before Stevie was discovered by
the Stones. He played Montreux where David Bowie found him and
gave him his break - playing on the Let’s Dance album
- but it was with his band Double Trouble that SRV came into his
own with the Texas Flood album in ’83. A simple setup
- rock solid bass and drums with guitar - this power trio reinterpreted
both the blues and blues-based rock of previous decades and sparked
a blues revival, resurrecting the careers of old bluesmen at the
same time they inspired a generation of young ones.
Vaughan never claimed to be inventing something new, and continually
paid tribute to his influences - Albert King, Lonnie Mack, Buddy
Guy, T-Bone Walker, Hendrix - whose licks he copped and whose
"feel" he internalized. But no one had ever played those
guys’ material like Stevie did.
Through four studio albums Vaughan’s range and depth grew, surviving a cocaine addiction that he kicked before
recording 1989’s In Step. In 1990 he released Family Style, a joyful work with his brother
Jimmie, but it was all cut short that summer, when Stevie Ray Vaughan died in a helicopter crash at Alpine Valley
in East Troy, Wisconsin.
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