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The Sky Is Crying (album)

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Released
  
November 5, 1991

Length
  
38:28

Artist
  
Stevie Ray Vaughan

Recorded
  
January 1984–May 1989

Label
  
Epic

Release date
  
5 November 1991

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The Sky Is Crying (1991)
  
In the Beginning (1992)

Producers
  
Stevie Ray Vaughan, Tommy Shannon, Chris Layton, James Gaines

Genres
  
Blues, Blues rock, Texas blues, Electric blues

Awards
  
Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Album

Similar
  
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble albums, Blues albums

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The Sky Is Crying is the fifth and final studio album containing performances spanning most of the career of Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble. Released about one year after Vaughan's death in 1990, the album features ten previously unreleased tracks, originally recorded between 1984 and 1989. Only one title, "Empty Arms" (complete reprisal), appeared on any of the group's previous albums. The tracks were compiled by Vaughan's brother, Jimmie Vaughan, in an effort to release the title track.

Contents

The Sky Is Crying illustrates many of Vaughan's musical influences, including songs in the style of traditional Delta blues, Texas blues, Chicago blues, jump blues, jazz blues, and Jimi Hendrix's blues-rock. The album's tone alternates primarily between uptempo pieces and gritty, slow blues. The album includes a Grammy-winning extended instrumental cover version of Jimi Hendrix's "Little Wing"; "Chitlins con Carne", a jazz instrumental; and, "Life by the Drop", a song written by Vaughan's friend Doyle Bramhall and played on a twelve-string acoustic guitar.

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Track listing

  1. "Boot Hill" (Simon Bink, James Reyne) – 2:15
  2. "The Sky Is Crying" (Elmore James, Morris Levy, Clarence Lewis) – 4:36
  3. "Empty Arms" (Stevie Ray Vaughan) – 3:29
  4. "Little Wing" (Jimi Hendrix) – 6:49
  5. "Wham" (Lonnie Mack) – 2:25
  6. "May I Have a Talk with You" (Howlin' Wolf) – 5:49
  7. "Close to You" (Willie Dixon) – 3:10
  8. "Chitlins con Carne" (Kenny Burrell) – 3:57
  9. "So Excited" (Stevie Ray Vaughan) – 3:30
  10. "Life by the Drop" (Doyle Bramhall, Barbara Logan) – 2:28

Personnel

  • Stevie Ray Vaughan – guitars, vocals
  • Chris Layton – drums
  • Tommy Shannon – bass guitar
  • Reese Wynans – keyboards
  • Production
  • Track 1 produced by Jim Gaines and Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble
  • Recorded at Kiva Studios, Memphis, TN, 2/89–4/89 Engineered by Jim Gaines and Richard Mullen Assistant engineers – Evan Rush, Danny Jones
  • Tracks 2, 6, 8, and 9 produced by Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble and Richard Mullen
  • Recorded at The Dallas Sound Lab, Dallas, TX, 3/85–5/85 Engineered by Richard Mullen Assistant engineer – Ron Cote
  • Tracks 3–5 and 7 produced by Stevie Ray Vaughan, Chris Layton, Tommy Shannon, Richard Mullen, and Jim Capfer
  • Recorded at The Power Station, NY, 1/84–2/84 Engineered by Richard Mullen Assistant engineer – Rob Eaton
  • Track 10 produced by Stevie Ray Vaughan and Jim Gaines
  • Recorded at Sound Castle Studios, Los Angeles, CA, 4/89–5/89
  • Compilation and additional production – Jimmie Vaughan
  • Mixed and engineered by Richard Mullen
  • Assistant engineer – Jeff Powell
  • Production coordination – Mark Proct, Mark Rutledge, Roger Klein
  • Mastered by Bob Ludwig
  • Art direction – Arnold Levine/Mark Burdett
  • Photography – William Snyder
  • Inside photo – Stephanie Chernakowski
  • Band photo – Alan Messer
  • Songs

    1Boot Hill2:16
    2The Sky Is Crying4:38
    3Empty Arms3:29

    References

    The Sky Is Crying (album) Wikipedia