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Track List
01) Say What!
02) Ain't Gone 'n' Give Up on Love
03) Pride and Joy
04) Mary Had a Little Lamb
05) Superstition
06) I'm Leaving You (Commit a Crime)
07) Cold Shot
08) Willie the Wimp
09) Look at Little Sister
10) Texas Flood
11) Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)
12) Love Struck Baby
13) Change It
01) Say What!
02) Ain't Gone 'n' Give Up on Love
03) Pride and Joy
04) Mary Had a Little Lamb
05) Superstition
06) I'm Leaving You (Commit a Crime)
07) Cold Shot
08) Willie the Wimp
09) Look at Little Sister
10) Texas Flood
11) Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)
12) Love Struck Baby
13) Change It
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First Released
1986
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Blues
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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 15, 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)"), Howlin' Wolf ("Commit a Crime"), and Buddy Guy ("Mary Had a Little Lamb"). The song "Don't Stop By The Creek, Son" (Johnny Copeland) was performed at the 1985 Montreux show but was omitted from the CD release.
The album received mixed reviews. The album was praised for Vaughan’s live playing, his ability to improvise and his ability to make covers sound like his own, but was criticized for Vaughan’s uneven playing (mainly caused by his drug abuse), and the lack of the typical Vaughan sound.
"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, although Bill Janovitz says otherwise on www.allmusic.com. 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.
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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 15, 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)"), Howlin' Wolf ("Commit a Crime"), and Buddy Guy ("Mary Had a Little Lamb"). The song "Don't Stop By The Creek, Son" (Johnny Copeland) was performed at the 1985 Montreux show but was omitted from the CD release.
The album received mixed reviews. The album was praised for Vaughan’s live playing, his ability to improvise and his ability to make covers sound like his own, but was criticized for Vaughan’s uneven playing (mainly caused by his drug abuse), and the lack of the typical Vaughan sound.
"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, although Bill Janovitz says otherwise on www.allmusic.com. 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.
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