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The Sky Is Crying

~ Stevie Ray Vaughan
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  • Audio CD (17 April 2000)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Sony
  • ASIN: B000026L7U
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 8,616 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The Best, 21 Sep 2002
This is the best studio album Stevie never recorded and possibly the best studio album of his altogether. An album I think put together by his brother Jimmy after his death. A selection without a single weakness.
The CD covers every aspect of Stevies style from the rawness of the excellent opener Boot Hill to the jazz/blues of Chitlins Con Carne.
The version of Little Wing is worth the price alone. Sublime and exquisite, Stevie at his best.
The closing song Life by the Drop is, I suppose an obvious choice to put on, bearing in mind his recent recovery from addiction and then cruel death shortly afterwards. But listen to its subtlety, simplicity and aching vocals. Even after listening to it dozens and dozens of time it never fails to send shivers down my back and the closing lines a lump to my throat...
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars 4½ stars. As good as a "real" album, 29 Jul 2003
By Docendo Discimus (Vita scholae) - See all my reviews
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This collection of outtakes from Stevie Ray Vaughan's previous album sessions, released the year after his tragic death, is actually as solid and enjoyable as most of his "real" albums.

It is bluesier than "In Step", recalling his first album, "Texas Flood", and it features an alternative take on the delightful, swinging "Empty Arms" (from "Soul To Soul") and nine previously unreleased songs, including fine renditions of Howlin' Wolf's menacing "May I Have A Talk With You" and Elmore James' immortal "The Sky Is Crying".

Stevie Ray Vaughan's too rarely heard slide playing smoulders on the morbid "Boot Hill" (an alternative version of Elmore James' "Look On Yonder Wall"), which is also highlighted by Reese Wynans' wonderful piano playing.
And Vaughan's guitar playing on this album includes some of the best performances of his career - just listen to that purely instrumental version of "Little Wing", and Lonnie Mack's "Wham" as well.

"The Sky Is Crying" also features Willie Dixon's "Close To You", a supremely jazzy "Chitlins Con Carne", the SRV orginal "So Excited" (also an instrumental), and finally one of Vaughan's best-ever performances, an acoustic solo rendition of Doyle Bramhall's wonderful survivor story "Life By The Drop". Sublime "live" vocal on that one, one of the best things Stevie Ray Vaughan ever committed to tape.
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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A fitting swansong, 26 April 2004
By S. J. Ryder "ryder_simon" (England) - See all my reviews
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Put together after Stevie's death, this album is quite frankly superb. Asit was put together from a few years of sessions, you get a few differentvibes from him, instead of a specific vibe per album. It's got somerocking blues to his more tender side, which is what i want from an album.
I also want to add that 'Life by the Drop' is the perfect and mostbeautiful close for Stevie as a musician (although his legacy lives oninside eveyone who loves him). Not many songs can move me as much as 'Lifeby the Drop'. I cannot state enough, it's absolute perfection for hislast 'semi-proper' album - before the greatest hits albums came out.
It brings a tear to my eye everytime i hear it.
Anyway, my general point is that this album proves to be a fittingswansong to one of the few musicans who was truely touched by god. I'm notreligious but Stevie had what Hendrix had. I have no idea where it camefrom but i adore it.
My advice to everyone is to buy all his albums and listen to them inorder, while reading a SRV book of some sort.
You don't hear that many albums as good as this nowadays
RIP Stevie
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5.0 out of 5 stars he's too good!
Where to start on the album...well it has to be Little Wing...the sleeve notes by Jimmie Vaughan state that with headphones on you can hear his amp buzzing and almost smell the... Read more
Published on 10 Nov 2006 by C. Gorman

5.0 out of 5 stars Wowwww!!!!!!!
This is the album that started my apprehiation of SRV and Double trouble. I guarantee that this will open up your blues collection and you will be buying artist you would never of... Read more
Published on 15 Jun 2005 by Mr C J Curling

5.0 out of 5 stars I never did like helicopters!
Released in 1991 a year after his death, The Sky is Crying is material which Vaughan did not consider good enough to go on any of his previous albums. Read more
Published on 17 Dec 1999

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