Solos, Sessions & Encores

Performer: Stevie Ray Vaughan
Producer: Bob Irwin (Compilation)
Distributor: Sony Music Distribution (

Notes: Additional personnel: David Bowie, Dick Dale, A.C. Reed, Jeff Beck, Jimmie Vaughan, Johnny Copeland, Katie Webster, Albert Collins, Albert King, Lonnie Mack, Lou Ann Barton, Marcia Ball, Paul Butterfield, B.B. King, Bill Carter, Bonnie Raitt. Though Texas blues guitar legend Stevie Ray Vaughan will obviously be best remembered for his own catalog, he was a man who liked to spread his talent around. SOLOS, SESSIONS & ENCORES is a collection of archival tracks (most of them previously unreleased) that find the six-string wizard sitting in with everybody from Albert Collins to David Bowie, and generating the kind of excitement that made him the preeminent blues artist of his era, yet still never hogging the spotlight from his worthy cohorts.

Uncut (p.106) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Stevie Ray Vaughan was a prolific and enthusiastic jammer. This collects seven live recordings..."

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.

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