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Live Alive is an electric blues album compiled from four live performances by Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble. The performances were recorded on July 16, 1985 at the Montreux Jazz Festival; July 17-18, 1986 at the Austin Opera House; and July 19, 1986 at Dallas Starfest. Much of the album was overdubbed in the studio.
The 1985 Montreux performance was much better received than the 1982 visit, during which some of the crowd booed Vaughan's hard blues sound. The song selection for Live Alive displays many of SRV's biggest influences: Jimi Hendrix ("Voodoo Chile"), Stevie Wonder ("Superstition"), Howlin' Wolf ("Commit A Crime"), and Buddy Guy ("Mary Had A Little Lamb").
[edit] Track listing
- Say What! – 4:51
- Ain't Gone 'n' Give Up On Love – 6:24
- Pride And Joy – 5:04
- Mary Had a Little Lamb (Buddy Guy) – 4:15
- Superstition (Stevie Wonder)– 4:43
- I'm Leaving You (Commit a Crime) (Chester Burnett) – 5:35
- Cold Shot (M. Kindred) – 5:40
- Willie the Wimp (Bill Carter, Ruth Ellsworth) – 4:37
- Look at Little Sister (Hank Ballard) – 4:14
- Texas Flood (Jim W. Scott, Larry C. Davis) – 6:30
- Voodoo Child (Slight Return) (Jimi Hendrix) – 9:37
- Love Struck Baby – 3:46
- Change It (Doyle Bramhall) – 5:03
- Life Without You (appeared only on vinyl copies)
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