14 Tracks, Recorded between 1978 & 1988 – Seven Of Them Live – Six Previously Unreleased
Features the SRV Classics “The Sky Is Crying” With Albert King, B.B. King And Paul Butterfield; “Texas Flood” With Bonnie Raitt; “Change It” With Jimmie Vaughan (On Saturday Night Live) .
Also includes some great covers: “Goin’ Down” With Jeff Beck; “Pipeline” With Dick Dale; “Oreo Cookie Blues” With Lonnie Mack, & more!
Solos, Sessions & Encores gathers 14 varied performances – half of them live, including the near-mythic 1984 jam with Jeff Beck at the CBS Records Convention in Honolulu. With one 1978 exception, the album spans five of his years as an Epic Records artist, from 1983 to 1988. There are album session tracks with Albert King, B.B. King, Paul Butterfield, Marcia Ball, Johnny Copeland, A.C. Reed, Bill Carter, Dick Dale, and David Bowie’s “Let’s Dance” (the worldwide #1 chart smash that ignited Stevie Ray’s stardom in 1983) – plus six previously unreleased tracks (five of them live) with Lonnie Mack, Katie Webster, Albert Collins, Jimmie Vaughan, Lou Ann Barton, and Bonnie Raitt.
*** denotes previously unreleased track
