''In Session'' is a

blues Blues is a music genre and musical form which originated in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Blues incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the Afr ...

album by

Albert King Albert Nelson (April 25, 1923 – December 21, 1992), known by his stage name Albert King, was an American guitarist and singer who is often regarded as one of the greatest and most influential blues guitarists of all time. He is perhaps b ...

with

Stevie Ray Vaughan Stephen Ray Vaughan (October 3, 1954 – August 27, 1990) was an American musician, best known as the guitarist and frontman of the blues rock trio Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble. Although his mainstream career spanned only seven years, ...

recorded live for television on December 6, 1983, at

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studios in

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, when Vaughan was 29 and King was 60. It was released as an album on August 17, 1999, and re-released with a supplemental video recording on DVD on September 28, 2010. It has also been released on CD and SACD. It was the first of two collaborations captured for television, the second being as invited guests on a show led by

B.B. King Riley B. King (September 16, 1925 – May 14, 2015), known professionally as B.B. King, was an American blues singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer. He introduced a sophisticated style of soloing based on fluid string bending, shi ...

in 1987. It was recorded for one of a series of live television sessions recording the performances of various artists. The show was called ''In Session''. The album includes a few short segments of the banter by King and Vaughan between songs. Initially, King was not going to do the show as he did not know who Vaughan was. He did not realize that Vaughan was actually 'little Stevie', the 'skinny kid' that he let sit in when King played in Texas. King talks about this on one of the conversation tracks. When he realized who Vaughan was, he agreed to play. The album's material is mostly King's concert line up, with one Vaughan cut, "Pride and Joy" on the audio CD (the DVD also features Vaughan's "Texas Flood"). King is 'driving' the session, but he features Vaughan's guitar extensively on most of the songs. According to the introductory credits on the DVD, a number of the tunes are included there for the first time, having been omitted from the original TV broadcast for reasons of time.

Track listing

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Call It Stormy Monday "Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday Is Just as Bad)" (commonly referred to as "Stormy Monday") is a song written and recorded by American blues electric guitar pioneer T-Bone Walker. It is a slow twelve-bar blues performed in the West Coast b ...

" ( Aaron "T-Bone" Walker) - 8:59 #"Old Times" alk- 1:15 #" Pride and Joy" (

) - 5:57 #"Ask Me No Questions" (

) - 5:02 #"Pep Talk" alk- 0:51 #"Blues at Sunrise" (

) - 15:08 #"Turn It Over" alk- 0:51 #"Overall Junction" (Albert King) - 8:19 #" Match Box Blues" (

Blind Lemon Jefferson Lemon Henry "Blind Lemon" Jefferson (September 24, 1893 – December 19, 1929)Some sources indicate Jefferson was born on October 26, 1894. was an American blues and gospel singer-songwriter and musician. He was one of the most popular blues sing ...

) - 7:38 #"Who Is Stevie?" alk- 0:43 #" Don't Lie to Me" (Hudson Whittaker) - 8:56 DVD: # ntroduction#"Born Under a Bad Sign" * #"Texas Flood" (featuring Stevie Ray Vaughan on vocals) * #"Call It Stormy Monday" #"Old Times" alk#"Match Box Blues" #"Pep Talk" alk#"Don't Lie To Me" #"Who Is Stevie?" alk#"Pride and Joy" (featuring Stevie Ray Vaughan on vocals) #"

I'm Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town "We Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town" is a song originally recorded on September 3, 1936, by Piedmont blues musician Casey Bill Weldon. Weldon performed it as a solo piece, with vocals and acoustic guitar plus piano and double bass accompanime ...

" * # uttro (* = not previously released/not on audio CD) Based on the conversations, key changes and tempo count-offs, the tracks for the full performance were in the following order: # ntroduction#"Born Under a Bad Sign" #"Texas Flood" #"Call It Stormy Monday" #"Old Times" alk ersion from CD#"Pride and Joy" #"Ask Me No Questions" #"Pep Talk" alk#"Blues at Sunrise" #"Turn It Over" alk#"Overall Junction" #"Match Box Blues" #"Who Is Stevie?" alk#"Don't Lie to Me" #"I'm Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town" # uttro

Personnel

- electric guitar, vocals *

- electric guitar, vocals on "Pride and Joy" *

Tony Llorens Tony Llorens (born August 2, 1952) is an American musician, composer, pianist, and actor, known for the films '' A Wedding'' (1978), '' No God, No Master'' (2013) and ''Heavens Fall'' (2006). He has worked as music director for Chicago based ETA ...

- piano, organ * Gus Thornton - bass * Michael Llorens - drums Production *Ian Anderson - original recordings *Doug McClement - engineer *Bill Belmont - producer *Stephen Hart - remixing *Chris Clough - reissue A&R *Bill Belmont - reissue A&R *George Horn - remastering

Charts

References

External links

STLBlues.net
– Interview of Gus Thornton includes information on the session * {{Stevie Ray Vaughan Albert King live albums Stevie Ray Vaughan live albums 1999 live albums Stax Records live albums Live blues albums