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Released
  
November 15, 1986

Length
  
70:26

Release date
  
15 November 1986

Recorded
  
1985-6

Live Alive (1986)
  
In Step (1989)

Label
  
Epic/Sony Records

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Producer
  
Stevie Ray Vaughan, Double Trouble

Artists
  
Stevie Ray Vaughan, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble

Genres
  
Electric blues, Rhythm and blues, Funk

Similar
  
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble albums, Electric blues albums, Other albums

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Contents

Live Alive is the first live 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, when 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 Child (Slight Return)"), Stevie Wonder ("Superstition"), Howlin' Wolf ("Commit a Crime"), and Buddy Guy ("Mary Had a Little Lamb").

"I'm Leaving You (Commit a Crime)" is incorrectly credited on the album to C. Burnett, better known as Howlin' Wolf. Although Howlin' Wolf was the first to record the song on the album The London Howlin' Wolf Sessions, it was written by James Oden. The title is also incorrect, because "I'm Leaving You" is a completely different song by Howlin' Wolf. The song was originally titled "What a Woman!", but was released in 1981 (after Wolf's death) as "Commit a Crime" on the album "All Night Boogie". It is not unlikely that the title used on Live Alive was an honest mistake, since the lyrics start with "I'm leaving you woman, before I commit a crime". When Kenny Wayne Shepherd recorded the song for his 1995 album Ledbetter Heights, he carried on the mistake and used Stevie Ray Vaughan's title for the song, and also credited Howlin' Wolf as the writer.

Track listing

All songs were written by Stevie Ray Vaughan, except where noted.

  1. "Say What!" – 4:51
  2. "Ain't Gone 'n' Give Up on Love" – 6:24
  3. "Pride and Joy" – 5:04
  4. "Mary Had a Little Lamb" (Buddy Guy) – 4:15
  5. "Superstition" (Stevie Wonder) – 4:43
  6. "I'm Leaving You (Commit a Crime)" (Chester Burnett) – 5:35
  7. "Cold Shot" (W. C. Clark, Michael Kindred)" – 5:40
  8. "Willie the Wimp" (Bill Carter, Ruth Ellsworth) – 4:38
  9. "Look at Little Sister" (Hank Ballard) – 4:13
  10. "Texas Flood" (Joseph Wade Scott, Larry C. Davis) – 6:30
  11. "Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)" (Jimi Hendrix) – 9:37
  12. "Love Struck Baby" – 3:46
  13. "Change It" (Doyle Bramhall) – 5:04
  14. "Life Without You" - 9:30 (appeared only on vinyl and cassette copies)

Personnel

Double Trouble
  • Stevie Ray Vaughan – guitar and vocals
  • Tommy Shannon – bass
  • Chris "Whipper" Layton – drums
  • Reese Wynans – keyboards
    • Additional personnel
  • Stevie Ray Vaughan's older brother, Jimmie Vaughan (guitar, bass), appeared as a special guest on July 17, 1986 and is featured on "Willie the Wimp", "Love Struck Baby", "Look at Little Sister" and "Change It".

    • Songs

    1Say What!4:51
    2Ain't Gone 'n' Give Up on Love6:25
    3Pride and Joy5:05

    References

    Live Alive Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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