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Music CD - Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble: Couldn't Stand the Weather
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Music CD: Couldn't Stand the Weather
Artist: Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble
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Manufacturer: Sony
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Tracks:
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1. Scuttlebuttin'
2. Couldn't Stand The Weather
3. Things That I Used To Do
4. Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)
5. Cold Shot
6. Tin Pan Alley
7. Honey Bee
8. Stang's Swang
9. SRV Speaks (previously unreleased)
10. Hide Away (previously unreleased)
11. Look At Little Sister (previously unreleased)
12. Give Me Back My Wig (previously unreleased)
13. Come On (Pt. III) (previously unreleased)
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0074646587126
Format: Extra tracks
Label: Sony
Manufacturer: Sony
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Sony
Release Date: 1999-03-23
Studio: Sony
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Summary: Good, but not his best
Comment: This has never been one of my favorite releases from Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble. It's not bad by any stretch, but it never hooked me that way I would have liked. For example, "Scuttle Buttin'" is a decent opener, and a high energy one at that, but I've never thought it to be quite up to some of their other instrumental pieces. And, while a bit of Jimi Hendrix is always appreciated, his treatment of "Voodoo Chile" doesn't really offer up anything new and, so, is a bit disappointing.
None of these songs are bad. They just don't grab my attention the way SRV did with his debut, Texas Flood, or would again on later albums. There are some very strong points, however, such as the soulful slow blues of "Tin Pan Alley," which really is a top notch track.
This seems like a negative review...but I really like this album! It's just that I have high standards when it comes to SRV, and this one doesn't quite measure up to his best work. But it's still good!
The album sounds great, so it gets high marks for the remaster.
The bonus tracks are always a nice addition, but they just don't make a big impact on this one. "Hide Away" is relatively mild and "Look at Little Sister" doesn't come across as much different than the version on Soul to Soul. Decent additions...but not much that's above and beyond.
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Summary: one of the best blues albums
Comment: one of my friends was trying to get me to buy this cd and I was septical because if you have heard one blues artist you have heard them all right? WRONG! this guys is probubly the best "blues" guitar players I have ever heard. He is nothing like anything you have ever heard. This earns 10 stars even though there is only room for 5. If your into blues music, do your self a favor and pic up this album. it will imediatly become the one you compair all the others to. ENJOY!
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Summary: Bluesy, Jazzy Vaughan Breaks From the Pack
Comment: On Couldn't Stand The Weather, Stevie Ray Vaughan began to separate himself from every other modern bluesman with his distinct playing style.
On this record, you can hear a number of influences both individual and stylistic. The obvious Hendrix influence in a scorching version of "Voodoo Chile," Guitar Slim/Albert King/Albert Collins on "The Things That I Used To Do," and jazzy influenced "Tin Pan Alley" and "Stang's Swang." These, plus "Cold Shot" and the title cut elevated Vaughan to a different level than most of his contemporaries.
This is a fantastic blues/jazz album.
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Summary: Better than Hendrix!
Comment: I defy anyone to tell me SRV does NOT do a better shot at Voodoo Chile!!
The man FOREVER!!
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Summary: With this album, Stevie Ray dethroned Eddie Van Halen
Comment: The first time I heard Stevie Ray Vaughan on the radio, I thought it was Hendrix. And I think he ranks with Hendrix as one of the two greatest guitar players in Rock history.
From the late 1970s until this album came out, Eddie Van Halen seemed to be the undisputed King of Rock guitar. With this album, Stevie Ray Vaughan left no question as to who, among the living, was #1. Although, like Hendrix, Vaughan would be cut down in the prime of his life, he left gargantuan tracks. (Why is it always the best who die young? Why couldn't they have gotten Jon Bon Jovi in that helicopter? "C'mon Jon, there's a hairdresser on board. Yeah, yeah, get inside Jon!")
The album contains an excellent cover of Guitar Slim's blues tune "Things that I Used to Do," as well as divine original tracks such as "Scuttle Buttin", "Honey Bee" and the title track. But the CD's highlight for this reviewer is Vaughan's cover of Jimi Hendrix' "Voodoo Chile."
While Stevie Ray's musicianship really shines through on this CD, when I saw him live for the first time, opening up for Dire Straights at the Montreal Forum in the mid-80s, it was just jaw-dropping amazing! He blew Mark Knopfler and the boys off the stage. If you like the music on this CD and haven't seen Vaughan perform in concert, I highly recommend his Live at Montreux DVD.
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Editorial Reviews:
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In a brief interview that precedes this CD's four bonus tracks--all unreleased gems from the original 1984 sessions--Stevie Ray Vaughan makes the point that "music used to be more based on common everyday occurrences like a train's sound going down the track ... a horse walking." Then he comes on with a version of Freddie King's "Hideaway" that chugs like a locomotive. There's also a heretofore unheard slide-guitar-powered "Give Me Back My Wig" and a blueprint of what became Soul to Soul's radio hit "Look at Little Sister." All those follow the improved mixes of the original CD, which include Vaughan's heartbreak chronicles "Couldn't Stand the Weather" and "Cold Shot"; his first jazzer, "Stang's Swang"; and his initial Hendrix outing, "Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)." It's the sound of the guitar hero growing as an artist on his own terms--sidestepping the irony that poisoned '90s rock to stay true to the real-life aesthetic of the blues. --Ted Drozdowski
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