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The CD 'opens' with In the Open, a Freddy King number, performed at SRV's raunchiest, with his own 'Texas' interpretation.
Other familiar SRV tracks include Tin Pan Alley and Love Struck Baby.
On this CD Stevie has covered other artists' material ranging from Willie Dixon (Shake for me) to Howling Wolf (Tell Me). Yet each and every track bears his own trade mark - his distinctive frenetic guitar style. There is no attempt to imitate the styles of the original bluesmen who recorded the tracks before him.
He proves himself a worthy bottleneck guitarist on Slide Thing, recalling elements of Elmore James, (although Stevie wrote this himself).
This is a CD which predates SRV's studio successes. It has the an even greater raw quality that his studio works had.
This is an essential addition to the CD collection of any blues fan.
It features Vaughan, drummer Chris Layton and then-bassist Jackie Newhouse tearing through a nine-song set with youthful enthusiasm....three of the songs, including the smoking Elmore James-inspired slide guitar instrumental "Slide Thing", are Stevie Ray Vaughan-originals, the rest are cover versions of classc blues and R&B tunes.
Stevie Ray does a funky rendition of Eddie "Guitar Slim" Jones' "They Call Me Guitar Hurricane", a supremely groovy "All Your Love (I miss loving)" (the Otis Rush classic) with some excellent syncopated drumming by Chris Layton, and a very good and very mature take on the classic slow blues "Tin Pan Alley".
And you get to hear early versions of his own "Love Struck Baby", the opening track on his debut album three years later, and the wonderful, swinging blues-rocker "I'm Cryin'", which was called "Live Another Day" back in 1980, after the line "(If) I can't love my baby / I can't live another day".
This is a really, really good "live in the studio" album, with only a few SRV originals, but featuring some well-chosen and masterfully executed cover songs. A very worthy and highly enjoyable addition to Stevie Ray's catalogue.
Recorded in Austin in 1980 "In the Beginning [LIVE]" bears witness to the fact that Stevie Vaughan was a guitar great even before he added the 'Ray' to his name. Read more
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