''The Essential Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble'' is a compilation album of material by Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble released in 2002 (see

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). The album was released by Epic Records and includes songs from 1980 to 1990 including several live tracks on two discs. In 2008, the album was re-released as part of the Limited Edition 3.0 series, with a third bonus disc containing six additional songs culled from studio albums.

Track listing

*All songs previously released.

Disc One

#"Shake for Me" (live) ( Willie Dixon) – 3:51 (released on '' In the Beginning'') #"

Rude Mood "Rude Mood" is the sixth track on Stevie Ray Vaughan's debut album, ''Texas Flood''. It is a blues shuffle instrumental in 4/4 (common time) and played at 264 beats per minute. The song was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrument ...

/ Hide Away" (live) (Vaughan,

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) – 4:58 (released on ''Live at Montreux 1982 & 1985'') #"

Love Struck Baby "Love Struck Baby" is a blues rock song performed by Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble. Vaughan wrote the song about the night that he moved in with his then-wife, Lenny. The track was produced by Vaughan for the band's debut album '' Texas ...

" (Vaughan) – 2:22 (released on '' Texas Flood'') #" Pride and Joy" (Vaughan) – 3:40 (released on ''Texas Flood'') #" Texas Flood" (Larry Davis, Joseph Wade Scott) – 5:21 (released on ''Texas Flood'') #"

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" (

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) – 2:47 (released on ''Texas Flood'') #" Lenny" (Vaughan) – 4:57 (released on ''Texas Flood'') #" Scuttle Buttin’" (Vaughan) – 1:51 (released on ''

Couldn't Stand the Weather ''Couldn't Stand the Weather'' is the second studio album by American blues rock band Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble. It was released on May 15, 1984, by Epic Records as the follow-up to the band's critically and commercially successful 19 ...

'') #"Couldn't Stand the Weather" (Vaughan) – 4:41 (released on ''Couldn't Stand the Weather'') #" The Things (That) I Used To Do" ( Eddie Jones) – 4:54 (released on ''Couldn't Stand the Weather'') #"Cold Shot" (Michael Kindred, W.C. Clark) – 4:01 (released on ''Couldn't Stand the Weather'') #"Tin Pan Alley (aka Roughest Place in Town)" ( Robert Geddins) – 9:12 (released on ''Couldn't Stand the Weather'') #"Give Me Back My Wig" ( T.R. Taylor) – 4:07 (released on ''Couldn't Stand the Weather'') #"Empty Arms" (Vaughan) – 3:29 (released on '' The Sky Is Crying'') #" The Sky Is Crying" (Live) (

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, Clarence Lewis) – 7:20 (released on ''SRV'' boxed set) #"

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" (Live) ( Jimi Hendrix) – 11:53 (released on ''SRV'' boxed set)

Disc Two

#" Say What!" (Vaughan) – 5:23 (released on '' Soul to Soul'') #"Look at Little Sister" (

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) – 3:08 (released on ''Soul to Soul'') #"Change It" (

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) – 3:57 (released on ''Soul to Soul'') #"Come On (Part III)" (

Earl King Earl Silas Johnson IV (February 7, 1934 – April 17, 2003),
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) – 4:30 (released on ''Soul to Soul'') #"Life Without You" (Vaughan) – 4:18 (released on ''Soul to Soul'') #"

Little Wing "Little Wing" is a song written by Jimi Hendrix and recorded by the Jimi Hendrix Experience in 1967. It is a slower tempo, rhythm and blues-inspired ballad featuring Hendrix's vocal and guitar with recording studio effects accompanied by bass, ...

" (Jimi Hendrix) – 6:48 (released on ''The Sky Is Crying'') #" Willie the Wimp" (live) (Ruth Ellsworth-Carter, B. Carter) – 4:35 (released on ''

Live Alive ''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; a ...

'') #" Superstition" (live) ( Stevie Wonder) – 4:41 (released on ''Live Alive'') #"Leave My Girl Alone" (live) (Buddy Guy) – 4:47 (released on Epic promotional disc ESK 1998 and '' The Real Deal: Greatest Hits Volume 2'') #"The House Is Rockin’" (Vaughan, Doyle Bramhall) – 2:24 (released on ''In Step'') #"

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" (Carter, Chris Layton, Ellsworth-Carter, Reese Wynans,

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) – 4:10 (released on ''In Step'') #"Tightrope" (Vaughan, Doyle Bramhall) – 4:39 (released on ''In Step'') #"Wall of Denial" (Vaughan, Doyle Bramhall) – 5:36 (released on ''In Step'') #"Riviera Paradise" (Vaughan) – 8:50 (released on ''In Step'') #"Telephone Song" (Vaughan, Doyle Bramhall) – 3:28 (released on ''

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'') #"Long Way from Home" (Vaughan, Doyle Bramhall) – 3:15 (released on ''Family Style'') #"Life by the Drop" (Doyle Bramhall, Barbara Logan) – 2:27 (released on ''The Sky Is Crying'')

Disc Three Limited Edition 3.0" release only/h2>
#"Dirty Pool" (Vaughan) – 5:00 (released on ''Texas Flood'') #"I'm Cryin" (Vaughan) – 3:43 (released on ''Texas Flood'') #"Honey Bee" (Vaughan) – 2:42 (released on ''Couldn't Stand the Weather'') #"Ain't Gone 'N' Give Up On Love" (Vaughan) – 6:07 (released on ''Soul to Soul'') #"You'll Be Mine" (Dixon) – 3:45 (released on ''Soul to Soul'') #"Scratch-N-Sniff" (Vaughan, Bramhall) – 2:42 (released on ''In Step'')

Personnel

*A complete list of personnel can be found on each previous release.

Production for compilation

*Bob Irwin – producer *Vic Anesini – mastering *Steve Berkowitz – A&R *John Jackson – project director *Josh Cheuse – art direction and design *Stephanie Chernikowski – cover photography, liner photos *Alan Messer – liner photos *

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– liner photos *David Gahr – photography *Robert Matheu – photography *James Minchin III – photography

Certifications

References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Essential Stevie Ray Vaughan Stevie Ray Vaughan albums 2002 greatest hits albums