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Albert King with Stevie Ray Vaughn - In Session
- “In Session” is a great meeting of student and teacher. Both Stevie Ray Vaughn and Albert King seemed to be joyous over the jam session that would ensue.
At one pointm, King says, “I wouldn’t have missed this for nothing in the world.” That must have been an honor for Stevie Ray Vaughn who was very much influenced by King’s style and music. You can hear King’s tone in Vaughn’s crying guitar. Right after the two chat King asks him to play “Pride and Joy” and starts hooting and hollering.
King also mentions to Vaughn, “the most important thing, the better you get the harder you work.” This can be interpreted as a discipline that King maintained himself.
King and Vaughn’s guitar pyrotechnics can be heard throughout the album. The album was recorded for a Canadian TV show called “In Session” in 1983. The songs are extended in live format, not cutting the listener short like studio versions of the blues sometimes do.
Stax Records has just recently reissued the album with new liner notes. This record represents a passing of the torch in blues guitar. For King, who toured for over 30 years before this session, he was looking out for Vaughn, giving him the best advice he had. Vaughn had just released his debut album and was on the rise. This would be the only known recording of two blues guitar masters.
Reviewer: Stefan Julian
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Reviewer's Rating: 9.5
Reader's Rating: 10.00
Reader's Votes: 1
Added: 10-Jul-2009
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