Artist: STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN AND DOUBLE TROUBLE
Album: THE SKY IS CRYING (CD)

Release date: 1991
Media type: CD

The Sky Is Crying is an electric blues album containing studio performances spanning most of the career of Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble. Released about one year after Vaughan's death in 1990, the album features ten tracks originally recorded between 1984 and 1989.

The Sky is Crying illustrates many of Vaughan's musical influences, including songs in the style of traditional Delta blues, Chicago blues, jump blues, jazz blues, and Jimi Hendrix. The album's tone alternates primarily between uptempo pieces and gritty, slow blues. The album includes a Grammy-winning extended instrumental cover version of Jimi Hendrix's "Little Wing"; "Chitlins Con Carne", a jazz instrumental; and "Life By The Drop", an acoustic guitar performance whose lyrics were written by Vaughan's friend Doyle Bramhall. This song is not about Vaughan's struggle with drug abuse, as many think, but actually about Vaughan's friendship with Doyle Bramhall from Bramhall's perspective.

TRACKLIST:

"Boot Hill" (Writer Unknown) – 2:15
"The Sky Is Crying" (Elmore James, M. Levy, Clarence Lewis) – 4:36
"Empty Arms" (Stevie Ray Vaughan) – 3:29
"Little Wing" (Jimi Hendrix) – 6:49
"Wham" (Lonnie Mack) – 2:25
"May I Have A Talk With You" (Howlin' Wolf) – 5:49
"Close To You" (Willie Dixon) – 3:10
"Chitlins Con Carne" (Kenny Burrell) – 3:57
"So Excited" (Vaughan) – 3:30
"Life By The Drop" (Doyle Bramhall, Barbara Logan) – 2:28