Live recordings

This page includes both audio and DVD live Stevie Ray Vaughan recordings. We primarily placed it in chronological order of performance. However, some recordings include a few dates so we selected one of the years to list it in. Too the box set, SRV has loads of live performances.

Top picks
DVD
Live at Montreux 1982 & 1985

CD
Live at Carnegie Hall

In the Beginning - 1992

Recorded April 1, 1980
Label: Sony
Recorded live from a KGSR-FM broadcast from Steamboat 1847, a club in Austin, Texas, Apr. 1, 1980.

1. In The Open
2. Slide Thing
3. They Call Me Guitar Hurricane
4. All Your Love I Miss Loving
5. Tin Pan Alley
6. Love Struck Baby
7. Tell Me
8. Shake For Me
9. Live Another Day

Live at Montreux 1982 & 1985- 2001

Recorded Jul 17, 1982, Jul 15, 1985
Label: Sony

Disc: 1 - Jul 17, 1982
1. Hide Away
2. Rude Mood
3. Pride And Joy
4. Texas Flood
5. Love Struck Baby
6. Dirty Pool
7. Give Me Back My Wig
8. Collins Shuffle

Disc: 2 - Jul 15, 1985
1. Scuttle Buttin'
2. Say What!
3. Ain't Gone 'N' Give Up On Love
4. Pride And Joy
5. Mary Had A Little Lamb
6. Tin Pan Alley (aka Roughest Place In Town)
7. Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
8. Texas Flood
9. Life Without You
10. Gone Home
11. Couldn't Stand The Weather

The 1982 set is a trio band and the 1985 show adds Reese Wynans on keyboards.

DVD - it includes two extra tracks with Johnny Copeland, only the middle track is on the audio edition.
Cold Shot
Tin Pan Alley (aka Roughest Place in Town)
Look at Little Sister (with Johnny Copeland)

DVD

Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble - Live at the El Mocambo 1983 - 1991

DVD

Captured live in 1983 at Toronto's El Mocambo club. Vaughan, drummer Chris Layton, and bassist Tommy Shannon

1. Testify
2. So Excited
3. Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
4. Pride and Joy
5. Tell Me
6. Mary Had a Little Lamb
7. Texas Flood
8. Love Struck Baby
9. Hug You, Squeeze You
10. Third Stone from the Sun
11. Lenny
12. Wham!

Exclusive 11/99 Interview with Double Trouble's Clayton and Shannon,
* Lyrics, Timeline and Discography

Live at Carnegie Hall - 1997

Recorded Oct. 4, 1984
Label: Sony

1. Intro - Ken Dashow/John Hammond
2. Scuttle Buttin'
3. Testifyin'
4. Love Struck Baby
5. Honey Bee
6. Cold Shot
7. Letter To My Girlfriend
8. Dirty Pool
9. Pride And Joy
10. The Things That I Used To Do
11. C.O.D.
12. Iced Over
13. Lenny
14. Rude Mood

Tracks 1-6 Double Trouble
Tracks 7-12 with guests
Tracks 13 - 14 solo Stevie Ray

Stevie Ray Vaughan Guitar, Vocals
Chris Layton Drums
Tommy Shannon Bass

Dr. John Keyboards
Jimmie Vaughan Guitar
George Rains Drums

Angela Strehli vocals on C.O.D

The Room Full of Blues Horn Section:

Porky Cohen Trombone
Bob Enos Trumpet
Doug James Sax (Baritone)
Rich Lataille Sax (Alto)
Greg Piccolo Sax (Tenor)

Live in Tokyo - 2006

Jan 24, 1985
Label: Masterplan Records

1. Scuttle Buttin'
2. Say What
3. Voodoo Chile
4. Cold Shot
5. Couldn't Stand The Weather
6. Tin Pan Alley
7. Mary Had A Little Lamb
8. Love Struck Baby
9. Texas Flood
10. Lenny

Live Alive - 1986

The sonic quality of this release is below expectations. It may have been re-mastered after I bought mine.

July 16, 1985 - Montreaux, Switzerland
July 17-18, 1986 - Austin Opera House, TX
July 19, 1986 - Dallas Starfest, TX
Label: Sony

1. Say What
2. Ain't Gone 'N' Give Up On Love
3. Pride And Joy
4. Mary Had A Little Lamb
5. Superstition
6. I'm Leaving You (Commit A Crime)
7. Cold Shot
8. Willie The Wimp
9. Look At Little Sister
10. Texas Flood
11. Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)
12. Love Struck Baby
13. Change It

Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble - Live From Austin, Texas - 1995

Austin TX
1983 and October 1989

1 Pride and Joy
2 Texas Flood
3 Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
4 The House Is Rockin'
5 Tightrope
6 Cold Shot
7 Crossfire
8 Riviera Paradise
9 Tick Tock
10 Little Wing

DVD also includes the posthumous music video "Little Wing," featuring clips of Double Trouble and archival footage of blues greats from the 1920s to the mid-1990s.

DVD

SRV - 2000

Stevie Ray Vaughan's box-set is targeted more for the hard core fan, IMO. There are lots of rare live material and other rarities. Three CD's and a DVD.

DVD - Accompanying DVD videodisc entitled "One night in Texas". These tracks were recorded live at "Austin City Limits," October 10, 1989 and are previously un-issued.

Disc: 1

1. Thunderbird (Recorded In Austin, Texas 1977) - Stevie Ray Vaughan
2. I'm Cryin'
3. You're Gonna Miss Me Baby (Recorded During An Austin, Texas Soundcheck 1979)
4. They Call Me Guitar Hurricane (Live)
5. All Your Love I Miss Loving (Live) (Recorded At The Steamboat In Austin, Texas 1980)
6. Come On (Pt.III)
7. Letter To My Girlfriend
8. Lenny (KUT-FM Radio Performance, Austin, Texas 1981)
9. Don't Lose Your Cool (Live)
10. Crosscut Saw (Live)
11. Manic Depression (Live) (Recorded At Fitzgerald's Club, Houston, Texas 1981)
12. Texas Flood (Live)
13. Collins' Shuffle (Live) (Recorded At The Montreux International Jazz Festival 1982)
14. Pride And Joy (Taken From The Album Texas Flood 1982)
15. Love Struck Baby (First 'Austin City Limits' Television Appearance 1983)
16. Hug You, Squeeze You (Live) (Recorded At The El Mocambo, Toronto, Canada 1983)
17. Don't Stop By The Creek, Son (Taken From The Album Texas Twister 1982) - Stevie Ray Vaughan
18. Ask Me No Questions (Taken From The Album In Session 1983) - Stevie Ray Vaughan

Disc: 2
1. Scuttle Buttin'
2. Couldn't Stand The Weather (Taken From The Album Couldn't Stand The Weather 1984)
3. Empty Arms (Taken From The Album The Sky Is Crying 1984)
4. Little Wing/Third Stone From The Sun (Live) (CBS Records Convention, Honolulu, Hawaii 1984)
5. If You Have To Know (Taken From The Album Strike Like Lightning 1984) - Stevie Ray Vaughan
6. These Blues Is Killing Me (Taken From The Album I'm In The Wrong Business 1984) - Stevie Ray Vaughan
7. Boilermaker (Outtake From The Soul To Soul Sessions 1985)
8. Change It (Taken From The Album Soul To Soul 1985)
9. Shake 'N Bake (Outtake From The Soul To Soul Sessions 1985)
10. Mary Had A Little Lamb (Live) (Taken From The Album Live Alive 1985)
11. I'm Leavin' You (Commit A Crime) (Live) (MTV's 'Mardi Gras' Appearance 1987)
12. Rude Mood/Pipeline (Live) (MTV's 'Mardi Gras' Appearance 1987) - Stevie Ray Vaughan
13. The Sky Is Crying (Live)
14. Voodoo Chile (Slight Return) (Recorded At Carnegie Hall, New York, New York 1984)

Disc: 3
1. Lookin' Out The Window (Live)
2. Look At Little Sister (Live)
3. Willie The Wimp (Live) (Recorded At The Mann Music Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1987)
4. The House Is Rockin' (Taken From The Album In Step 1989)
5. Crossfire (Live) (Recorded At Tingley Coliseum, Albuquerque, New Mexico 1989)
6. Wall Of Denial (Taken From The Album In Step 1989)
7. Dirty Pool (SRV Solo On Timothy White's 'Rock Lives' Radio Program 1989) - Stevie Ray Vaughan
8. Goin' Down (Live) (Recorded At Tingley Coliseum, Albuquerque, New Mexico 1989) - Stevie Ray Vaughan
9. Rude Mood (Live) - Stevie Ray Vaughan
10. Pride And Joy (Live) - Stevie Ray Vaughan
11. Testify (Live) (SRV Solo Acoustic From MTV's 'Unplugged' 1990) - Stevie Ray Vaughan
12. Long Way From Home (Taken From The Album Family Style 1990) - The Vaughan Brothers
13. Tightrope (Live)
14. Cold Shot (Live) (Recorded In Houston, Texas 1990)
15. The Things (That) I Used To Do (Live)
16. Let Me Love You Baby (Live)
17. Leave My Girl Alone (Live) (Recorded At Alpine Valley, East Troy, Wisconsin 1990)

Stevie Ray Vaughan, guitar and vocals ; with Double Trouble, Guests on one or more tracks: Albert King, Johnny Copeland, Lonnie Mack, A.C. Reed, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Vaughan, and others.

Stevie Ray Vaughan: Pride and Joy

Released in 2007

A collection of various videos

Stevie Ray Vaughan Books

Stevie Ray Vaughan DVD

Stevie Ray Vaughan CD

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