The Real Deal: Greatest Hits Vol. 1
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Producer: Bob Irwin
Legacy Recordings, 2006
1 CD
Catalogue #: 51129
EAN: 0828768151129
UPC: 828768151129
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In his day, Stevie Ray Vaughan's explosive talent and passionate take on the blues not only impressed the hardcore genre enthusiasts but also reignited a public love affair--albeit brief--with the bluesman/guitar god archetype typified by Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix. No traditionalist blues player has reached his height of stardom since. And given that early-2000s public adoration was reserved for minimalist avatars like Jack White and Nick Zinner, it's arguable that Vaughan was the last of his kind.
THE ULTIMATE STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN: THE REAL DEAL, VOL. 1 strives to outdo previously released greatest-hits collections like Sony's THE ESSENTIAL STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN AND DOUBLE TROUBLE, and includes a mix of crisper hits like "Cold Shot," "Pride and Joy," and "The House is Rockin'" with more stretched-out fret odysseys like "Tin Pan Alley (A.K.A. The Roughest Place in Town)" and the live scorcher "The Sky Is Crying." There are glaring gaps here--most notably "Look at Little Sister" and his stirring covers of Stevie Wonder's "Superstition" and Hendrix's "Little Wing"--but one presumes that Epic is saving some choice cuts for Vol. 2.
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Stevie Ray Vaughan
In the 1980s, many assumed blues rock was left for dead, but Stevie Ray Vaughan helped breath life back into it. More than a straight-ahead bluesman, Texas-native Vaughan was influenced as much by Jimi Hendrix as he was by Otis Rush, and the singer/songwriter/guitarist possessed jaw-dropping technical abilities and pure soul in equal amounts. With his trio Double Trouble (later expanded to include keyboardist Reese Wynans), Vaughan helped spearhead something of a blues revival in the '80s. Like his hero Hendrix, though, the flamboyant guitar hero died too soon, killed in a helicopter accident in 1990.
