Friday, March 7, 2008

Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble - "Live Alive"

I can't remember when and where I got this album either. It was sometime back in the late 90s and I bought it because it has SRV's version of Jimi Hendrix's "Voodoo Chile". This album has a different feel than the other SRV albums I have, which may be due to it being earlier in his career. Plus, because it's a live album there is a much looser feel to it. The playing isn't as good as his "Live at Carnegie Hall album". Sort of the difference between thinking "That's awesome, I'm going to practice like crazy until I can play like that", vs. "Holy *Bleep*! I will never sound that good no matter how much time I spend practicing." This album also has the song "Look at Little Sister", which I've always thought works so much better on an acoustic than an electric, largely because it's a simple blues riff that just sounds like some blind guy out of Mississippi should be banging it out on an old carved top Gibson. It's a good album, but when I want an SRV fix, I will almost always grab a different album of his. And of course, the Amazon link.

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