Stevie Ray Vaughan - BBC Sessions, Volume 3: In Concert, Austin City Limits Studio, Austin, TX, 10-10-1989

Here is the third and last album of guitar wizard Stevie Ray Vaughan performing for the BBC. Sadly, he died a year later. So it's unlikely for there to be more BBC material unless I missed something from earlier. This is a concert.

This one is rather strange for a "BBC concert," because it clearly originally was an episode of the U.S. TV show "Austin City Limits." However, it was also broadcast on BBC radio. You can even find it listed on the BBC website as part of their "In Concert" series. This kind of thing seemed to have happened more than I'd first realized when starting out with my big BBC project. I'm guessing there were times when a musical act was really popular and the BBC wanted to feature them, but they couldn't arrange to record them. For instance, perhaps they weren't going to Britain that year. So instead the BBC would simply buy the rights to someone else's radio or TV broadcasts. 

That's one reason I'm really enjoying gathering this BBC material, because they so often managed to feature musical acts at their commercial and/or creative peaks, because the BBC had the power and money to do that kind of thing. The one glaring exception is when a musical act got so popular that they decided not to do any radio or TV broadcasts at all. That certainly happened sometimes. A classic example was the Beatles stopping all BBC broadcasts in mid-1965, even though they kept touring for another year.

Anyway, I digress. Getting back to this recording, although you can easily find video of this show on YouTube and elsewhere, it hasn't been released in audio format. In fact, I was surprised that I couldn't even find any audio bootlegs of this, only a few songs here and there. So I put it together myself, based on a high quality video source. The sound quality is excellent. But one problem was that there often wasn't enough audience applause at the ends of songs. Probably, there were cutaways to commercials or an emcee talking. So in many cases I patched in applause from the ends of other songs to give adequate space after every song. 

Of course it's a tragedy that he died as young as he did. But it's especially tragic because, in my opinion, he was getting better and better as a songwriter and guitar player, probably helped by the fact that he'd stopped abusing drugs and alcohol. So of the three BBC albums I've posted by him, I think this one is the best.

This album is an hour and six minutes long.

01 The House Is Rockin' (Stevie Ray Vaughan)
02 Tightrope (Stevie Ray Vaughan)
03 talk (Stevie Ray Vaughan)
04 May I Have a Talk with You (Stevie Ray Vaughan)
05 Mary Had a Little Lamb (Stevie Ray Vaughan)
06 Leave My Girl Alone (Stevie Ray Vaughan)
07 Crossfire (Stevie Ray Vaughan)
08 Look at Little Sister (Stevie Ray Vaughan)
09 Superstition (Stevie Ray Vaughan)
10 talk (Stevie Ray Vaughan)
11 Cold Shot (Stevie Ray Vaughan)
12 Couldn't Stand the Weather (Stevie Ray Vaughan)
13 Voodoo Child [Slight Return] (Stevie Ray Vaughan)
13 Riviera Paradise [Instrumental] (Stevie Ray Vaughan)

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alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/S9ykouDU5WbkFrP/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert.