
Stevie Ray Vaughan - The Sky Is Crying
Artist - Stevie Ray Vaughan Title - The Sky Is Crying Format - Single 180-Gram Vinyl LP Label - Music on Vinyl 2015 Reissue The Sky Is Crying (1991) is the fifth studio album containing performances spanning most of the career of Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble. Released about one year after Vaughan's death in 1990, the album features ten previously unreleased tracks, originally recorded between 1984 and 1989. The posthumously assembled ten-track outtakes collection The Sky is Crying actually proves to be one of Stevie Ray Vaughan's most consistent albums. These songs were recorded in sessions spanning from 1984's Couldn't Stand The Weather to 1989's In Step and left off of the LPs for whatever reason (or, in the case of Soul to Soul's "Empty Arms," a different version was used). What makes the record work is its eclectic diversity -- Vaughan plays slide guitar on "Boot Hill" and amazing acoustic on "Life by the Drop"; he smokes on the slow blues of "May I Have a Talk With Y