In Session

King / Stevie Ray Vaughan, Albert

Genre: music4me > Jazz & Blues > Blues

Format: CD Album

Released: Mon 6 Nov 2006

Catalogue Number: 1875012

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Description:
Personnel: Albert King, Stevie Ray Vaughan (vocals, guitar); Tony Llorens (piano, organ); Gus Thornton (bass); Michael Llorens (drums).
Recorded at CHCH studios, Hamilton, Ontario on December 6, 1983. Includes liner notes by Bill Belmont, Lee Hildebrand and Dan Forte.
Digitally remastered by George Horn (1999, Fantasy, Berkeley, California).
Throughout his short ride in the public eye, Stevie Ray Vaughan constantly cited his musical influences: older brother Jimmie, Buddy Guy, Jimi Hendrix, and Lonnie Mack. The one elder statesman whose playing stood out in shaping not only the incendiary style of S.R.V., but that of Eric Clapton, Hendrix, and Jimmy Page was southpaw blues giant Albert King. Known for his short, sharp phrasing wrapped in a driving rhythm, King gained fame during the seven years he recorded for Stax, a Memphis soul label.
This 1983 session was recorded a decade after the cantankerous King first had Vaughan, then a skinny teenager, sit in with him at an Austin club. Although this taping was definitely King's turf, he shared the stage and was no less a proud and paternal mentor, as evidenced by the laudatory in-between song patter that's been included. The playing is top-notch and includes slow-burn readings of T-Bone Burnett's classic "Call It Stormy Monday" and of "Blues at Sunrise," an early-'60s number that King recalled playing live with Hendrix and Janis Joplin at the Fillmore West. Elsewhere, the duo picks up the tempo with the instrumental shuffle "Overall Junction" and an upbeat take on B.B. King's "Ask Me No Questions."

Details:

Distributors: Pinnacle, Universal Music
Producers: Ian Anderson, Bill Belmont
Discs: 1
Release Year: 2003
Release Year: 2006

Track Listing:

1.	Call It Stormy Monday
2.	Old Times
3.	Pride and Joy
4.	Ask Me No Questions
5.	Pep Talk
6.	Blues at Sunrise
7.	Turn It Over
8.	Overall Junction
9.	Match Box Blues
10.	Who Is Stevie?
11.	Don't Lie to Me