Artist: STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN AND DOUBLE TROUBLE
Album: SOUL TO SOUL REMASTERED (CD)

Year: 1985/ 1999
EAN/UPS: 5099749413122
Media type: CD

Guitar lovers will flip over this reissue's new bonus tracks: a conversation in which Stevie Ray Vaughan extols the virtues of Jimi Hendrix's playing and then essays them all in a medley of "Little Wing/Third Stone From the Sun." There's also the brief slide-guitar instrumental "Slip Slidin' Slim." What's breathtaking about these and the 10 remastered cuts that were the original 1985 album are the remarkably live amplifier tones. It sounds as though Vaughan's plugged directly into your stereo--especially at the climax of "Little Wing," where his Stratocaster feeds back through a wall of spinning Leslie speakers in a fit of psychedelic bliss. Otherwise, this CD still seems like a creative holding pattern for Vaughan, despite the addition of keyboardist Reese Wynans to broaden his band's palette. Nonetheless, the prophetic "Change It," which foreshadowed Vaughan's recovery from addiction by a year, and his in-concert staples "Ain't Gone 'n' Give Up on Love" and "Life Without You" debut here.

TRACKLIST CD:

1. Say What!
2. Lookin' Out The Window
3. Look at Little Sister
4. Ain't Gone 'N' Give Up On Love
5. Gone Home
6. Change It
7. You'll Be Mine
8. Empty Arms
9. Come On (Part 3)
10. Life Without You

11. SRV Speaks (Bonus Track)
12. Little Wing/Third Stone From The Sun (Bonus Track)
13. Slip Slidin' Slim (Bonus Track)