Track Listing

1. Love Struck Baby
2. Pride and Joy
3. Texas Flood
4. Tell Me
5. Testify
6. Rude Mood
7. Mary Had a Little Lamb
8. Dirty Pool
9. I'm Cryin'
10. Lenny
11. SRV Speaks [#][*] - Stevie Ray Vaughan, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble
12. Tin Pan Alley (AKA Roughest Place in Town) [#][*]
13. Testify [Live][#][*]
14. Mary Had a Little Lamb [Live][#][*]
15. Wham! [Live][#][*]

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #991017 in Music
• Released on: 2008-10-14
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: 1.20 pounds

Album Description
Remastered reissue of 1983 album includes five bonus tracks, 'SRV Speaks', 'Tin Pan Alley' (AKA Roughest Place In Town), 'Testify' (Live), 'Mary Had A Little Lamb' (Live), & 'Wham!' (Live).

Amazon.com
Stevie Ray Vaughan was already an underground hero in blues circles and had begun earning national attention for his hard-edged-but-tasteful playing on David Bowie's Let's Dance album when this solo debut arrived. Produced by legendary talent scout John Hammond, the CD captures the rising guitar star tending fields seeded by earlier legends Buddy Guy, Albert King, and Jimi Hendrix. His own "Lenny," a tribute to his then wife, suggests a jazz-inclined complexity that would emerge in later recordings. But overall this album is the kind of raw double shot of blues and rock that made Vaughan one of the 1980s' best in-concert performers. --Ted Drozdowski

Customer Reviews

SRV on SACD?
Plenty of people have written reviews of this album. All I wish to comment on is the quality of the SACD transfer.

I compared the SACD to the original (not the re-mastered) CD of this album, which has been in my collection for many, many years. I had both queued up in two separate players: a Sony DVP-S9000ES for the CD and a Sony SCD-E555ES for the SACD. I used the DACs in the players and used an "analog direct" setup to ensure that no further signal processing occurred. Levels were matched closely enough that we couldn't identify a difference.

With most of the program material we couldn't tell the difference between the two disks. The only difference I noticed with any regularity was a slightly increased sharpness of high transient sounds such as rimshots and cymbals. If there was any difference in guitar, vocals, bass, ambience or spaciousness, we couldn't hear it.

There are other albums that I own both a CD and SACD of where I can identify significant differences. In fact, with the multi-channel SACDs that I've listened to, the sound quality is magnificent. This disk just isn't one of them.

That said, this is one of my all-time favorite albums. This is my third copy (LP, CD and SACD) and even after almost twenty years it gets played frequently. I certainly recommend the album, but I'm not sure it is worth getting in SACD.

SACD is excellent, much better than the CD
I respectfully disagree with A Music Fan from Ellensburg, WA USA - listening both on a friend's Marantz player, and my Esoteric transport / DAC combination, there are distinct differences between the CD release and the SACD on both systems. The SACD provides a delicious sense of depth and dynamics, and 'air' on the live tracks, that is lacking on the Redbook release. In addition, the shimmer of cymbals and the attack and release of SRVs guitar work (whether during ferocious or quiet work) is much more detailed and distinct on the SACD - the leading and trailing edges of notes are much easier to discern and follow.

In any case, you can't go wrong with this disc. Highest recommendation!

The SACD release is quite excellent!
I strongly agree with Mr. Steinhauer's comments regarding the quality of this SACD release. If you enjoyed the LP (as I have for many years since it's original release), you will rediscover how good this recording is (and of course the music itself). For reference, I am playing the disc on a McCormack UDP-1. Both clarity and depth are outstanding. Man, this is good SRV. (Now I wish there was an SACD release of "The Sky is Crying!")