The Essential Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble

Infobox Album |
Name = The Essential Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble
Type = compilation
Artist = Stevie Ray Vaughan


Released = 2002
Recorded = 1980-1990
Genre = Blues Rock
Length = 2:56:21
Label = Epic
Producer = Bob Irwin
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:d9frxq9aldse link]
Last album = "Live at Montreux 1982 & 1985"
(2001)
This album = "The Essential Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble"
(2002)
Next album = "Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues - Stevie Ray Vaughan"
(2003)

"The Essential Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble" is a compilation album of material by Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble released in 2002 (see 2002 in music). The album was released by Epic Records and includes songs from 1980 to 1990 including several live tracks on two discs.

Track listing

*All songs previously released.

Disc One

#“Shake for Me” (live) (Willie Dixon) – 3:51 (released on "In the Beginning")
#“Rude Mood/Hide Away” (live) (Vaughan, Freddie King, Sonny Thompson) – 4:58 (released on "Live at Montreux 1982 & 1985")
#“Love Struck Baby” (Vaughan) – 2:22 (released on "Texas Flood")
#“Pride and Joy” (Vaughan) – 3:40 (released on "Texas Flood")
#“Texas Flood” (Larry Davis, Joseph Wade Scott) – 5:21 (released on "Texas Flood")
#“Mary Had a Little Lamb” (Buddy Guy) – 2:47 (released on "Texas Flood")
#“Lenny” (Vaughan) – 4:57 (released on "Texas Flood")
#“Scuttle Buttin’” (Vaughan) – 1:51 (released on "Couldn't Stand the Weather")
#“Couldn't Stand the Weather” (Vaughan) – 4:41 (released on "Couldn't Stand the Weather")
#“The Things (That) I Used To Do” (Eddie Jones) – 4:54 (released on "Couldn't Stand the Weather")
#“Cold Shot” (Michael Kindred, W.C. Clark) – 4:01 (released on "Couldn't Stand the Weather")
#“Tin Pan Alley (aka Roughest Place in Town)” (Robert Geddins) – 9:12 (released on "Couldn't Stand the Weather")
#“Give Me Back My Wig” (T.R. Taylor) – 4:07 (released on "Couldn't Stand the Weather")
#“Empty Arms” (Vaughan) – 3:29 (released on "The Sky Is Crying")
#“The Sky Is Crying” (Live) (Elmore James, Morris Levy, Clarence Lewis) – 7:20 (live from Carnegie Hall in New York City)
#“Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" (Live) (Jimi Hendrix) – 11:53 (live from Carnegie Hall in New York City)

Disc Two

#“Say What!” (Vaughan) – 5:23 (released on "Soul to Soul")
#“Look at Little Sister” (Hank Ballard) – 3:08 (released on "Soul to Soul")
#“Change It” (Doyle Bramhall) – 3:57 (released on "Soul to Soul")
#“Come On (Part III)” (Earl King) – 4:30 (released on "Soul to Soul")
#“Life without You” (Vaughan) – 4:18 (released on "Soul to Soul")
#“Little Wing” (Hendrix) – 6:48 (released on "The Sky Is Crying")
#“Willie the Wimp” (live) (Ruth Ellsworth-Carter, B. Carter) – 4:35 (released on "Live Alive")
#“Superstition” (live) (Stevie Wonder) – 4:41 (released on "Live Alive")
#“Leave My Girl Alone” (live) (Guy) – 4:47 (studio version released on "In Step")
#“The House Is Rockin’” (Vaughan, Bramhall) – 2:24 (released on "In Step")
#“Crossfire” (Carter, Chris Layton, Ellsworth-Carter, Reese Wynans, Tommy Shannon) – 4:10 (released on "In Step")
#“Tightrope” (Vaughan, Bramhall) – 4:39 (released on "In Step")
#“Wall of Denial” (Vaughan, Bramhall) – 5:36 (released on "In Step")
#“Riviera Paradise” (Vaughan) – 8:50 (released on "In Step")
#“Telephone Song” (Vaughan, Bramhall) – 3:28 (released on "Family Style")
#“Long Way from Home” (Vaughan, Bramhall) – 3:15 (released on "Family Style")
#“Life by the Drop” (Bramhall, Barbara Logan) – 2:27 (released on "The Sky Is Crying")

Personnel

*A complete list of personnel can be found on each previous release.

Production for compilation

*Bob Irwin – producer
*Vic Anesini – mastering
*Steve Berkowitz – A&R
*John Jackson – project director
*Josh Cheuse – art direction and design
*Stephanie Chernikowski – cover photography, liner photos
*Alan Messer – liner photos
*Don Hunstein – liner photos
*David Gahr – photography
*Robert Matheu – photography
*James Minchin III – photography

References

*cite book| title = The Essential Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble album liner notes | publisher = Epic Records