Live Alive

Infobox Album | Name = Live Alive
Type = Live album
Artist = Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble


Released = November 15, 1986
Recorded = 1985-6
Genre = Electric blues
Length = 70:19
Label = Epic Records
Producer = Stevie Ray Vaughan, Double Trouble
Reviews =
Last album = "Soul to Soul"
(1985)
This album = "Live Alive"
(1986)
Next album = "In Step"
(1989) |

"Live Alive" is an electric blues album compiled from four live performances by Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble. The performances were recorded on July 16, 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, during which 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)"), Stevie Wonder ("Superstition"), Howlin' Wolf ("Commit A Crime"), and Buddy Guy ("Mary Had A Little Lamb").

Track listing

# Say What! – 4:51
# Ain't Gone 'n' Give Up On Love – 6:24
# Pride And Joy – 5:04
# Mary Had a Little Lamb (Buddy Guy) – 4:15
# Superstition (Stevie Wonder)– 4:43
# I'm Leaving You (Commit a Crime) (Chester Burnett) – 5:35
# Cold Shot (M. Kindred) – 5:40
# Willie the Wimp (Bill Carter, Ruth Ellsworth) – 4:37
# Look at Little Sister (Hank Ballard) – 4:14
# Texas Flood (Jim W. Scott, Larry C. Davis) – 6:30
# Voodoo Child (Slight Return) (Jimi Hendrix) – 9:37
# Love Struck Baby – 3:46
# Change It (Doyle Bramhall) – 5:03
# Life Without You (appeared only on vinyl copies)

Personnel

*Stevie Ray Vaughan—Guitar and Vocals
*Tommy Shannon—Bass
*Chris "Whipper" Layton—Drums
*Reese Wynans—Keyboards
*Stevie Ray Vaughan's older brother, Jimmie Vaughan (guitar, bass), appeared as a special guest on July 17, 1986 and is featured on "Willie The Wimp," "Love Struck Baby," "Look At Little Sister" and "Change It."