Live at Montreux 1982 & 1985

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If you have even a passing interest in Stevie Ray Vaughan's peerless mastery of urban blues guitar, you must own Live at Montreux 1982 & 1985. Spaced almost exactly three years apart, these concerts (60 and 93 minutes, respectively) represent the Texan blues god at his fiery best, with Double Trouble (drummer Chris Layton and bassist Tommy Shannon) laying the solid foundation upon which SRV built a Fender-driven sound as fierce as it was perfectly refined. The '82 show was truly 'success in disguise,' because despite booing from a festival audience lulled by a day of acoustic blues, and the stunned dejection that SRV felt after persevering through a uncompromising set, this was the turning point in SRV's career, leading to post-show encounters with Jackson Browne and David Bowie, who proved instrumental in bringing Stevie's music to an appreciative global audience.

July 17, 1982
01. Hide away
02. Rude mood
03. Pride and joy
04. Texas flood
05. Love stuck baby
06. Dirty pool
07. Give me back my wig
08. Collins shuffle

July 15, 1985
09. Scuttle buttin`
10. Say whatt!
11. Ain`t Gone `n` give up on love
12. Pride and joy
13. Mary had a little lamb
14. Cold shot
15. Tin pan alley
16. Look at little sister
17. Voodoo child
18. Texas flood
19. Life without you
20. Gone home
21. Couldn`t stand the weather