#359/995
September 30 1985
Stevie Ray Vaughn & Double Trouble
Soul to Soul
Genre: Rock
Highlights:
You’ll Be Mine
1999.
Some dinner club in Santa Monica.
Little improvisational blues trio.
Fat, sweaty white guy on lead guitar.
The music was fine but what was memorable was the stank faces he made as he played every single note.
Remember Dana Carvey’s rock guitarist who changed chords and made it seem like he discovered penicillin? Like that only on every note.
Never forgot the guy.
I often wondered was that practiced? Did he know just what he looked like making sex faces over pentatonic scales?
There’s a lot of that on this album.
It’s kind of amazing how, over the course of three records, Vaughan has gone from remarkable upstart to staid and boring professional.
The dude can play. Like, I bet in his sleep he can ride some terrific licks. But that’s the problem. He’s not exploding anymore. He’s filling time, keeping pace and I’m not inspired. There’s no greatness here. Just talented guys playing blues based rock.
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