Customer Reviews
he's too good! - By: C. Gorman, 10 Nov 2006 
Where to start on the album...well it has to be Little Wing...the sleeve notes by Jimmie Vaughan state that with headphones on you can hear his amp buzzing & almost smell the pipes burning...and indeed you can, very rarely is anything this good!...add to this stevie's own redition of the title track, though the best version of this is to found on Martin Scorsese's Stevie collection. (a blistering live version).
This album was released just after Vaughan's death & is very possibly his best (studio) album.
What would he have been like if he had lived!?!?
Wowwww!!!!!!! - By: Mr C J Curling, 15 Jun 2005 This is the album that started my apprehiation of SRV & Double trouble. I guarantee that this will open up your blues collection & you will be buying artist you would never of thought of buying. Hendrix's 'Little Wing' displays that SRV plays from his heart & after listening to it you realise the talent lost. From his battered stratocaster comes a pure genius, which from a man who used to sneek into his brothers room & play his guitar when he went out then not be taken seriously by his family, shows skill & passion with his instrument. The CD starts with 'Boot Hill' & kicks things offin the finest style, though pure blues & texas shuffle & it ends with 'life by the drop' which is a 12 string guitar & stevie & some amazing emotional lyrics. This album was complied by Jimmie Vaughan after his brothers death so you get the finest of SRV studio takes. Inlay of the disc is an interview with Jimmie Vaughan & the members of Double Trouble & gives a background to the songs & Stevie's arrangment of them. The Songs, Talent & personality of this man shines though is playing will leave youin awe. He has left behind music that inspires, influences & encourages all us guitar players. Buy it, enjoy it, then watch your SRV collection grow.
A fitting swansong - By: S. J. Ryder, 26 Apr 2004 Put together after Stevie's death, this album is quite frankly superb. Asit was put together from a few years of sessions, you get a few differentvibes from him, instead of a specific vibe per album. It's got somerocking blues to his more tender side, which is what i want from an album.
I also want to add that 'Life by the Drop' is the perfect & mostbeautiful close for Stevie as a musician (although his legacy lives oninside eveyone who loves him). Not many songs can move me as much as 'Lifeby the Drop'. I cannot state enough, it's absolute perfection for hislast 'semi-proper' album - before the greatest hits albums came out.
It brings a tear to my eye everytime i hear it.
Anyway, my general point is that this album proves to be a fittingswansong to one of the few musicans who was truely touched by god. I'm notreligious but Stevie had what Hendrix had. I have no idea where it camefrom but i adore it.
My advice to everyone is to buy all his albums & listen to them inorder, while reading a SRV book of some sort.
You don't hear that many albums as good as this nowadays
RIP Stevie
As good as a "real" album - By: Docendo Discimus, 29 Jul 2003 
This collection of outtakes from Stevie Ray Vaughan's previous album sessions, released the year after his tragic death, is actually as solid & enjoyable as most of his "real" albums.
It is bluesier than "In Step", recalling his first album, "Texas Flood", & it features an alternative take on the delightful, swinging "Empty Arms" (from "Soul To Soul") & nine previously unreleased songs, including fine renditions of Howlin' Wolf's menacing "May I Have A Talk With You" & Elmore James' immortal "The Sky Is Crying".
Stevie Ray Vaughan's too rarely heard slide playing smoulders on the morbid "Boot Hill" (an alternative version of Elmore James' "Look On Yonder Wall"), which is also highlighted by Reese Wynans' wonderful piano playing.
And Vaughan's guitar playing on this album includes some of the best performances of his career - just listen to that purely instrumental version of "Little Wing", & Lonnie Mack's "Wham" as well.
"The Sky Is Crying" also features Willie Dixon's "Close To You", a supremely jazzy "Chitlins Con Carne", the SRV orginal "So Excited" (also an instrumental), & finally one of Vaughan's best-ever performances, an acoustic solo rendition of Doyle Bramhall's wonderful survivor story "Life By The Drop". Sublime "live" vocal on that one, one of the best things Stevie Ray Vaughan ever committed to tape.
The Best - By: , 21 Sep 2002 This is the best studio album Stevie never recorded & possibly the best studio album of his altogether. An album I think put together by his brother Jimmy after his death. A selection without a single weakness.
The CD covers every aspect of Stevies style from the rawness of the excellent opener Boot Hill to the jazz/blues of Chitlins Con Carne.
The version of Little Wing is worth the price alone. Sublime & exquisite, Stevie at his best.
The closing song Life by the Drop is, I suppose an obvious choice to put on, bearingin mind his recent recovery from addiction & then cruel death shortly afterwards. But listen to its subtlety, simplicity & aching vocals. Even after listening to it dozens & dozens of time it never fails to send shivers down my back & the closing lines a lump to my throat...
