Real Deal: Greatest Hits 1

Stevie Ray Vaughan, Stevie Ray Vaughan And Double Trouble | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 26, 2006)
• Original Release Date: 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B000KHX7AS
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,279 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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VAUGHAN STEVIE RAY THE REAL DEAL: GREATEST HITS 1

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25 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars SRV CD for the car., May 16, 2007

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Ontiniz (MOTOR CITY, MICHIGAN USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Real Deal: Greatest Hits 1 (Audio CD)

I own many SRV CDs but needed this one to have in my car at all times. Some of his best music is on this CD and it is great to have it handy on one CD. If you own a collection of SRV music this is not really needed unless you want a travel CD like I do. I find it necessary to have one. I mourn for him every time I play this CD and find it difficult to accept the fact that we will never hear the music we could have had if he had not left us so young. And I am grateful for the the music he did leave for us to enjoy.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is more like it!, April 13, 2009

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Docendo Discimus (Vita scholae) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Real Deal: Greatest Hits 1 (Audio CD)

Much, much better than 1995's original tepid "Greatest Hits"-album, this is a terrific introduction to the late, great Stevie Ray Vaughan.

A supremely strong and unusually varied collection of songs, "The Real Deal: Greatest Hits vol. 1" brings together 16 of Stevie Ray's best tunes, smouldering slow blues, melodic, swaggering R&B, and gritty blues-rock, all of it suprebly played and arranged by one of the few latter-day blues guitarists who was NOT overly hyped!
Most of Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble's best songs are here, including "Pride & Joy", "Cold Shot", the sizzling high-octane blues "Texas Flood", and the rollicking "The House is Rocking", and those that aren't here are on the equally excellent volume two.

Powerful, fiery covers of Guitar Slim's "The Things That I Used To Do" and Elmore James' "The Sky Is Crying" only adds to the appeal of this fine, well-packaged compilation.
By itself, "The Real Deal vol 1" can't match the double-disc "Essential Stevie Ray Vaughan", but get this one, and volume two as well, and you'll have the second-best Stevie Ray Vaughan-collection on the market. The best one is the "SRV" box set...!

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Vast improvement over the original "Greatest Hits", March 19, 2009

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J. Grant "Reviews for the average Joe" (North Carolina, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Real Deal: Greatest Hits 1 (Audio CD)

This new compilation, when purchased together with "The Real Deal, Vol.2", provides newcomers to SRV a nice overview of his all too brief career. There was a "Greatest Hits" album released in 1995 which is way inferior to this release. Personally, I'm not a fan of greatest hits or best of compilations, and usually will only purchase them if I don't know much about the artist and want to get a sample of their music. So, if you aren't familiar with Stevie or are on a budget, by all means get this CD as every song on it is essential. But after hearing this, you will want to go out and get everything he ever recorded. I have all of his discs and couldn't imagine being without any of them. To me, SRV was the greatest guitar player to have ever graced us with his presence.