We willen deze dagen niet voorbijgaan aan het feit dat Stevie Ray Vaughan 20 jaar geleden helaas is omgekomen bij een helicopter crash.
Vanwege dit feit heeft Sony Legacy Recordings besloten om een reissue uit te geven van zijn met platina bekroonde album uit 1984 “Couldn’t Stand the Weather”
Stevie Ray heeft nog steeds een enorme invloed op jonge gitaristen over de hele wereld.
Zijn invloed op de blues muziek mag dan ook niet vergeten worden.
R.I.P. Stevie Ray…
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN & DOUBLE TROUBLE’S 1984 ALBUM, COULDN’T STAND THE WEATHER, NOW EXPANDED TO TWO CDs
COULDN’T STAND THE WEATHER: LEGACY EDITION commemorates the 20th anniversary year of the passing of legendary guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan. It revisits the commercial breakthrough of the second album by Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble. Released in May of 1984, it was their first LP to earn RIAA gold certification, and their first platinum-seller as well.
The first entry by Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble in the prestigious Legacy Edition series of multi-disc packages, COULDN’T STAND THE WEATHER: LEGACY EDITION will be available as a two-CD set at all physical and digital retail outlets.
Disc one restores the original eight-song, 38-minute album with “Cold Shot” (a Top 30 Modern Rock track), indelible covers of blues standards including “Tin Pan Alley (aka Roughest Place In Town)” and Guitar Slim’s “The Things (That) I Used to Do” and, most notably, Hendrix’s “Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)” (also a Top 30 Modern Rock track and a Grammy®-nominated performance); the sequence expands with another 11 studio outtakes from the original recording sessions in January 1984, three of them previously unreleased;
Disc two premieres a previously unreleased live concert captured three month’s after the original LP’s release, from August 17, 1984, at The Spectrum in Montreal, Canada. The band played two sets that night and this disc captures selections from the late show. Featured are a mix of songs from the just-released Couldn’t Stand the Weather (among them “Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)”), plus tunes from the 1983 Texas Flood debut.
As with every title in the Legacy Edition series, the booklet contains a comprehensive liner notes essay written by an acknowledged expert. Andy Aledort, associate editor of Guitar World magazine, is a blues-rock maven and accomplished guitarist in his own right. He has authored more than a dozen guitar instruction books on trailblazers like Hendrix, Van Halen, Joe Satriani, Jeff Healey and others; and annotated CDs on Buddy Guy, Johnny Winter, Dickey Betts and more. Aledort has been covering Stevie Ray’s career since his arrival at Epic Records in the summer of 1983, and has written liner notes for several of his Epic/Legacy releases, including the four-disc box set SRV (2000); The Essential Stevie Ray Vaughan (2002); The Real Deal: Greatest Hits, Vol. 1 (2006); and Solos, Sessions & Encores (2007).
Aledort’s 2,700-word essay sets the stage: “Though a mere six months had passed between the release of Texas Flood
The bonus track studio outtakes on disc one add a new perspective to the band’s chronology at this early stage, starting with Stevie’s original, “Empty Arms,” one of several tracks here from the first posthumous SRV collection, 1991’s Grammy Award-winning The Sky Is Crying. Hank Ballard & the Midnighters’ “Look At Little Sister” and New Orleans blues man Earl King’s standard “Come On” (covered by Hendrix on Electric Ladyland) showed up in different versions on SRV&DT’s next album, 1985’s Soul To Soul. They had performed Freddie King’s “Hide Away” and Hound Dog Taylor’s “Give Me Back My Wig” at shows (cf. Live At Montreux 1982 & 1985), but neither song would ever show up on one of their albums during Stevie Ray’s life¬time.
The previously unreleased versions here of “Boot Hill” and Elmore James’ “The Sky Is Crying” are different than those heard on The Sky Is Crying. In addition to “Empty Arms,” that album contained a number of tracks from the January 1984 sessions, including covers of Lonnie Mack’s “Wham!,” Hendrix’s “Little Wing” and Willie Dixon’s “Close To You.” Disc one comes to a close with a previously unreleased alternate take of the short instrumental, “Stang’s Swang” – compare it to the version that closes the original Couldn’t Stand The Weather album and it’s evident this version strips away the saxophone.
In August 1984, SRV&DT headlined Montreal’s Spectrum arena, where they performed an early and a late set, the latter chronicled on disc two here. They reprised a number of songs from the well-received Texas Flood debut of the year before, among them “Testify,” “Love Struck Baby,” “Texas Flood,” “Lenny,” and “Pride And Joy.” But the bulk of the attention that night was given to the songs on the new album, Couldn’t Stand The Weather, among them “Voodoo Chile (Slight Return),” “The Things (That) I Used To Do” “Honey Bee,” “Couldn’t Stand The Weather,” “Cold Shot,” “Tin Pan Alley (aka Roughest Place In Town),” and (for a third time in this package) “Stang’s Swang.”
COULDN’T STAND THE WEATHER: LEGACY EDITION by STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN AND DOUBLE TROUBLE
Disc One:
1. Scuttle Buttin’
2. Couldn’t Stand The Weather
3. The Things (That) I Used To Do
4. Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)
5. Cold Shot
6. Tin Pan Alley (aka Roughest Place In Town)
7. Honey Bee
8. Stang’s Swang
Bonus tracks (studio outtakes from the Couldn’t Stand The Weather sessions):
9. Empty Arms (A)
10. Come On (Pt. III) (B)
11. Look At Little Sister (B)
12. The Sky Is Falling (C)
13. Hide Away (B)
14. Give Me Back My Wig (B)
15. Boot Hill (C)
16. Wham! (A)
17. Close To You (A)
18. Little Wing (A)
19. Stang’s Swang (alternate take) (C)
Key to bonus tracks:
A – from the 1991 album The Sky Is Crying (Epic)
B – from the 1999 expanded edition of Couldn’t Stand The Weather (Epic/Legacy)
C – previously unreleased
Disc Two (recorded live at The Spectrum, Montreal, Canada, August 17, 1984 (late show)
1. Testify
2. Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)
3. The Things (That) I Used To Do
4. Honey Bee
5. Couldn’t Stand The Weather
6. Cold Shot
7. Tin Pan Alley (aka Roughest Place In Town)
8. Love Struck Baby
9. Texas Flood
10. Band Intros
11. Stang’s Swang
12. Lenny
13. Pride And Joy
Internet : www.legacyrecordings.com
Dit is nou net de cd van SRV die ik zelden of nooit beluister.
Vrij matig album vergeleken met de rest van het repetoire van SRV.
De studio extra’s op deze nieuwe uitgave is natuurlijk pure oplichting van de koper aangezien de meeste tracks al eerder zijn uitgebracht op div heruitgaven.
De live bonus is wel aardig maar biedt weinig nieuws.
SRV is live veelal van hetzelfde.
Ik denk dat het beter was geweest om de live-cd apart te verkopen en eventueel een reissue uit te brengen van betere albums als Texas Flood of Soul To Soul.
Dit is de vijfde versie van Couldn’t stand the weather die ik heb gekocht. Naast de LP, daarna natuurlijk op CD en de speciale versies. Iedere keer voelde ik me wel een beetje beduveld, maar ik moet zeggen dat deze uitvoering wel het meest de moeite waard is. CSTW was mijn eerste plaat van SRV en is nog steeds mijn favoriet. Hier staat gewoon alles op wat hem zo geweldig maakte. Het geweldige titelnummer, een shuffle, een slow-blues, Hendrix, en een paar vlammende instrumentals. En dat dan ook allemaal nog een keertje live op de tweede cd. Van harte aanbevolen, ook als je al een oudere versie hebt.
Ja, je kan hier vanalles over zeggen, maar dit album blijft een uniek exemplaar zoals hij nu is uit gebracht naar mijn idee. Het erfgoed van Stevie is groot volgens mij, en nog steeds erg hoorbaar bij welke blues muzikant dan ook. Ik vind trouwens niet dat stevie elke keer hetzelfde doet live.
Ik zou wel willen dat die session van MTV eens uitgebracht werd, dat was weergaloos met Joe Satriani, wie weet?
Hij wordt in ieder geval terecht geeerd weer, maar eerlijk is eerlijk voor mij: JIMI-STEVIE-WALTER, athans in dit genre, Jimi blijft mijn god. Sorry- Frank