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Soul to Soul | 
| Artist: Stevie Ray Vaughan
Label: Legacy
Category: Music
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 20899
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
EAN: 5099749413122
ASIN: B0000256IU
Release Date: March 22, 1999
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| Tracks:
| • | Say What | | • | Looking Out The Window | | • | Look At Little Sister | | • | Ain't Gonna Give Up On Love | | • | Gone Home | | • | Change It | | • | You'll Be Mine | | • | Empty Arms | | • | Come On | | • | Life Without You |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.co.uk Review
Arguably the finest blues guitarist of his generation, Wisconsin-born Stevie Ray Vaughan initially learnt his chops on his brother--and Fabulous Thunderbirds' mainstay--Jimmie's hand-me-down guitars whilst glued to the works of Albert King and Lonnie Mack. After honing his skills in the late 70s with a variety of lacklustre combos, he was headhunted by David Bowie for 1983's Let's Dance tour, but left early to concentrate on his solo work. On this, his third album, Vaughan's virtuosity is both augmented and accentuated by Double Trouble, a backing band of rare competence, finally allowed to shine after having played a singularly supportive role to Stevie on earlier efforts. From the throbbing mid-tempo blues grooves of "Say What", through the barroom shuffle of "Look At Little Sister" to the head-spinning, flying-finger dexterity of "Empty Arms", Soul To Soul stands as a fitting epitaph to a true master of the blues. --Ian Fortnam
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 An Orgasm Of Sound June 7, 2007
This is perhaps SRV's best album. The opening 'Say What!' is the greatest blues-playing ever, and, believe it or not, it was recorded and played live using a wah-pedal that his elder brother, Jimmie Vaughan, got from Jimi Hendrix when he was supporting him in the sixties. Other highlights include the amazing slow-blues of 'Ain't Gone N' Give Up On Love' (which becomes an unbelievably quick blues that would take Steve Vai's breath away when played live. 'Change It' is a great cover of an old blues song, with a great solo. Earl King's 'Come On (Part 3)' is played like the Hendrix version, and whilst Jimi got the better of him here, his cover of 'Little Wing' (one of the bonus tracks) is way better. The closing four-minute guitar solo is too good to be real, and includes some of those amazing noises that Hendrix played in 'Machine Gun'. The closing 'Life Without You' is also excellent.
In short, this is an amazing album, and further proof that Stevie Ray Vaughan was indeed the greatest guitarist ever. BUY IT NOW, along with everything else he ever did. You won't regret it, because you brain, having melted, won't be capable of that emotion.
The finest album of SRV's career October 29, 2005
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
In my opinion, Soul to Soul is the best thing Stevie Ray Vaughan ever did. It is also the most accessible and relaxing album of his legendary repertoire.
His third and penultimate album (not including post-humous The Sky is Crying), this album ranges from everything from straight-ahead blues to jazz to soul/funk.
My favourite tracks are blues anthem 'Look at Little Sister', distorted rocker 'Change It', excellent cover 'Come On' and sensational ballad 'Life Without You'.
Instrumental opener 'Say What' is a great way to get things started, although it lacks the razor sharp appeal of 'Scuttle Buttin', opening track of Couldn't Stand the Weather.
Although I'll be the first to admit this album does have some obvious filler tracks ('You'll Be Mine'), the non-filler tracks are some of the strongest blues songs ever written, all featuring blisteringly-precise fretwork and flawless rhythm.In conclusion, this is an album you must own if you have any kind of appreciation for the blues, or guitar music as a whole. Even if you aren't that fond of blues, you should try this as it is undeniable '80s classic.
 Stevie's Lifestyle has inflections on his playing... April 24, 2005
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
For the Texas Blues veteran of only twentysomething years, Soul To Soul is both the least emotive and the least blue. Attempting to fuse Soul music with Blues and Rock, Stevie Ray created a languid and somewhat disappointing blues-rock album with a few good tunes on it. The highlights are the incredibly fantastically enjoyably brilliant Say What!, a solid return to weeping, tortured blues with Ain't Gone 'N' Give Up On Love, and the dreaming, exquisite, and dainty Life Without You. As well as the others worth mention: Look At Little Sister, a standard but fun blues jaunt, and gone home, a slightly unorganised jazz jam.But then there are still the the lowlights: the unimpressive and passive Lookin' Out The Window, strangely disenchanting Change It, and the empty-sounding You'll Be Mine and Empty Arms. As well as a decent cover of a great tune, Come on, Pt. 3, which fails to really have the brilliance of covers like Texas Flood and Tell Me. Stevie's playing remains unchanged and as great as ever, but by Soul To Soul his playing seems to have become a little tiresome and repetitive, especially when there can be heard almost no true feeling in more than a few of the tracks. For all the low points, it's an album DEFINITELY worth having, if just for the fantastic Wah-jam, Say What! and Life Without you, as well as being an important point in a full catalogue of Stevie's work. Any true fan can't go without it, and any other fan should perhaps go with Texas Flood and In Step instead.
Blues-rock at its finest June 27, 2003
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Stevie Ray Vaughan only lived long enough to release four studio albums and one live (everything else has come out after his tragic death in a 1990 helicopter accident).This is his third album, originally released in October 1985, and for "Soul To Soul", Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble abandoned their original trio format and included keyboardist Reese Wynans and (occationally) saxist Joe Sublett. The music hasn't changed too much, though. It's still a superb blend of blues and rock, and even though Vaughan's guitar is perhaps a little less prominent on some songs, his playing is still masterful.
The material is very strong, with only one or two lesser tunes, and "Soul To Soul" is highlighted by the slow blues ballad "Ain't Gone 'N' Give Up On Love", the swinging "Empty Arms" in 2/4 time, and the terrific rockers "Change It", "Lookin' Out The Window" and "Look At Little Sister" (excellent piano playing on that last one, and a nice saxophone solo as well).
Stevie Ray also covers Howlin' Wolf's "You'll Be Mine", and considering that no-one in the world has yet been able to match the vocal power and ferocious attitude of the Wolf, and probably never will, he does a good job with it, although it's not really one of the highlights of the album. "Soul To Soul" has perhaps the strongest track list of any album released during Stevie Ray Vaughan's all-too-brief lifetime, and it is highly recommended to any and all lovers of blues-rock and contemporary blues music.
It rarely gets any better. In fact, it rarely gets this good.
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