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- Artist: Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble
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- Release Date: October 01, 2002
- Type: Compilation (best of)
- Genre: Rock
Review
Epic's The Essential Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble gathers two discs' worth of the late blues guitarist's work, including many live performances and a few tracks with the Vaughan Brothers. The collection presents Vaughan's material in roughly chronological order, from the 1980 live recording "Shake for Me" to 1989's "Life by the Drop." It also touches on most of Vaughan's definitive songs and performances, including "Tightrope," "Wall of Denial," "Couldn't Stand the Weather," and "Cold Shot," and live versions of "The Sky Is Crying," "Superstition," and "Rude Mood/Hide Away." Though this album doesn't offer anything that hasn't already been released in some form or another, it does go into slightly more depth than several of the other Stevie Ray Vaughan retrospectives by presenting both his greatest studio hits and some of his best live work. ~ Heather Phares, All Music GuideTracks
CD 1
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Shake for Me [Live] | Willie Dixon | (3:51) | |
| Rude Mood/Hide Away [Live] | Freddie King, Sonny Thompson, Stevie Ray Vaughan | (4:58) | |
| Love Struck Baby | Stevie Ray Vaughan | (2:22) | |
| Pride and Joy | Stevie Ray Vaughan | (3:40) | |
| Texas Flood | Larry Davis, |
(5:21) | |
| Mary Had a Little Lamb | Buddy Guy | (2:47) | |
| Lenny | Stevie Ray Vaughan | (4:57) | |
| Scuttle Buttin' | Stevie Ray Vaughan | (1:51) | |
| Couldn't Stand the Weather | Stevie Ray Vaughan | (4:41) | |
| The Things (That) I Used to Do | (4:54) | ||
| Cold Shot | W.C. Clark, Michael Kindred | (4:01) | |
| Tin Pan Alley (AKA Roughest Place in Town) | (9:11) | ||
| Give Me Back My Wig | (4:07) | ||
| Empty Arms | Stevie Ray Vaughan | (3:29) | |
| The Sky Is Crying [Live] | Stevie Ray Vaughan | (7:19) | |
| Voodoo Child (Slight Return) [Live] | Jimi Hendrix | (11:52) |
CD 2
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Say What! | Stevie Ray Vaughan | (5:24) | |
| Look at Little Sister | Hank Ballard | (3:08) | |
| Change It | Doyle Bramhall | (3:57) | |
| Come on, Pt. 3 | Earl King | (4:31) | |
| Life Without You | Stevie Ray Vaughan | (4:18) | |
| Little Wing | Jimi Hendrix | (6:47) | |
| Willie the Wimp [Live] | (4:34) | ||
| Superstition [Live] | Stevie Wonder | (4:41) | |
| Leave My Girl Alone [Live] | Buddy Guy | (4:47) | |
| The House Is Rockin' | Doyle Bramhall, Stevie Ray Vaughan | (2:24) | |
| Crossfire | (4:10) | ||
| Tightrope | Doyle Bramhall, Stevie Ray Vaughan | (4:40) | |
| Wall of Denial | Doyle Bramhall, Stevie Ray Vaughan | (5:36) | |
| Riviera Paradise | Stevie Ray Vaughan | (8:50) | |
| Telephone Song | Doyle Bramhall, Stevie Ray Vaughan | Vaughan Brothers | (3:29) |
| The Long Way From Home | Doyle Bramhall, Stevie Ray Vaughan | Vaughan Brothers | (3:17) |
| Life by the Drop | Doyle Bramhall, |
(2:27) |
