Sunday, January 19, 2025

Stevie Ray Vaughan - BBC Sessions, Volume 1: Reading Festival, Reading, Britain, 8-27-1983

There are still many great musical acts where I haven't even begun to post album from them. Legendary guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan is a case in point. He's only shown up so far by chance at a B.B. King concert I've posted. I have plans to post several stray tracks albums from him. But those take a lot of work to prepare. In the meantime, I've found three BBC concerts he performed. So here's the first of them.

Vaughan first burst into the mainstream in 1983 with his first proper studio album, "Texas Flood." It sold two million copies in the U.S. alone. That led to many opportunities, including a Europe tour, which included this concert at a prominent rock festival. 

I don't think anything from this concert has been officially released. However, it's been frequently bootlegged, due to it being broadcast by the BBC at the time.

This album is 44 minutes long.

01 Testify [Instrumental] (Stevie Ray Vaughan)
02 talk (Stevie Ray Vaughan)
03 So Excited [Instrumental] (Stevie Ray Vaughan)
04 Voodoo Chile [Slight Return] (Stevie Ray Vaughan)
05 Pride and Joy [Edit] (Stevie Ray Vaughan)
06 Mary Had a Little Lamb (Stevie Ray Vaughan)
07 Love Struck Baby (Stevie Ray Vaughan)
08 Texas Flood (Stevie Ray Vaughan)
09 talk (Stevie Ray Vaughan)
10 Come On [Part III] (Stevie Ray Vaughan)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/PyKfViQk

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/hMaXT2xlc3nRGxN/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. The image was a little rough, but I fixed it up with the Krea AI program.

11 comments:

  1. Wow Thanks Paul! Always desire more Stevie Ray. Didn’t know this one! Thank you as ever I will post links to head folks across!

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  2. Thanks for the early SRV, Paul. These BBC recordings generally have fabulous sound, and your sharing ifvthem is much appreciated!
    Sax and Guitar

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  3. This should be labeled as 8.27.1983 per SRVArchive and the bootleg I have. Looking forward to your stray tracks compilations!!!!

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    1. I'm pretty sure it was the 27th, not the 28th. You can find a concert poster from the time here showing he was scheduled to play there on the 27th:
      https://verian.wordpress.com/2015/08/30/reading-festival-1983/

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  4. Can you correct the date on the artwork, Paul? Thanks again for sharing this show!

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    1. Okay, I just redid it with that slight change.

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  5. Thank you very much, Paul, for responding to my suggestion so rapidly! Your artwork is a strong addition to your fine show edits.
    Regards,
    Sax and Guitar

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    1. Thanks. I don't get many comments about the album cover art. I'm psyched that I can now improve a lot of the crappy covers with Krea AI, but it's a big task and I'm tackling it a little bit at a time.

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