Despite several posthumous releases, Stevie Ray Vaughan and DoubleTrouble’s catalog has never received the multi-disc “Legacy Edition” treatment untilnow. This version of the trio’s second album, 1984’s Couldn’t Stand theWeather, restores (and remasters) the original eight-song, 38-minutealbumincluding “Cold Shot” and “Voodoo Child (Slight Return)”and thenstretches it to nearly 79 minutes by adding 11 bonus tracks. Among the threepreviously unreleased songs, a sax-free version of “Stang’s Swang” is mostrevealing. The second disc features an edgy 76-minute performance at TheSpectrum in Montrealon Aug. 17, 1984.
That’s a lot of Stevie Ray Vaughan to digest. But it serves as a timelyreminder of who we lost 20 years ago in that early-morning,southeastern-Wisconsin fog.
