Texas Flood, Soul To Soul, Others Due March 16 1999, with extra tracks, new booklets, etc…..
Fans of Stevie Ray Vaughan will be happy to know that the posthumous releases will continue in March 1999. To coincide with the South By Southwest music conference in Austin, Texas (Vaughan's hometown), Epic/ Legacy Records will release the first four Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble albums with previously unreleased bonus tracks on March 16 (SXSW kicks off on March 17), according to a spokesperson at Epic/ Legacy.
Pending approval from Jimmie Vaughan, Stevie's brother, the albums will include four bonus tracks each, culled from B-sides and previously unreleased live tracks or studio tracks. The albums getting a second life include 1983's Texas Flood, 1984's Couldn't Stand the Weather, 1985's Soul to Soul, and 1989's In Step. The reissues with include all new deluxe booklets and liner notes. In addition to the reissues, Epic/ Legacy will also release Greatest Hits Volume II on the same day, the follow-up to 1995's Greatest Hits. No word yet on the track listing for the new collection.
Vaughan has had five previous posthumous studio albums released: 1990's Family Style (with brother Jimmie as the Vaughan Brothers), 1991's The Sky Is Crying, 1992's In the Beginning, 1995's House Is Rocking, and 1997's Live at Carnegie Hall. Vaughan suffered an untimely death in 1990 when a helicopter in which he was a passenger crashed in East Troy, Wisc. shortly after an onstage jam session with Eric Clapton, Buddy Guy, Robert Cray, Jeff Healey, and Jimmie Vaughan.
