Comments on: Stevie Ray Vaughan - 12-string acoustic “Pride and Joy” http://www.jsharrison.com/blues/2006/01/21/stevie-ray-vaughan-12-string-acoustic-pride-and-joy/ Come on a journey through the world of the blues with me, Big D., the blackest man from Utah. Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:52:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: Barbara http://www.jsharrison.com/blues/2006/01/21/stevie-ray-vaughan-12-string-acoustic-pride-and-joy/#comment-34 Barbara Fri, 03 Mar 2006 14:16:57 +0000 http://www.jsharrison.com/blues/2006/01/21/stevie-ray-vaughan-12-string-acoustic-pride-and-joy/#comment-34 In Step, which came out in June 1989, won a Grammy in February of 1990. According to Keri Leigh's biography, Stevie Ray: Soul to Soul, the MTV Unplugged recordings took place a few days after the Grammys---so that would have been February or March of 1990, I believe. Those acoustic recordings are so great, aren't they. It would have been amazing it we'd had decades more to see where he chose to go/explore musically. What a gift. Knowing that he is at peace now is comforting, after a lifetime full of hurt and pain and angst. God is merciful. In a way, it is a blessing SRV went out on top, and neither he nor we had to watch any decline in his abilities, although he left an unfillable void. Such a loss, but I guess it was his time, and he had learned all of his lessons, leaving the rest of us behind to learn ours. (I would imagine after a lifetime of abusing his body, his health would have started to decline at some point and that would have been sad to witness----although his changed spirit would have been fully in tact, for sure.) In Step, which came out in June 1989, won a Grammy in February of 1990. According to Keri Leigh’s biography, Stevie Ray: Soul to Soul, the MTV Unplugged recordings took place a few days after the Grammys—so that would have been February or March of 1990, I believe.

Those acoustic recordings are so great, aren’t they. It would have been amazing it we’d had decades more to see where he chose to go/explore musically. What a gift.

Knowing that he is at peace now is comforting, after a lifetime full of hurt and pain and angst. God is merciful. In a way, it is a blessing SRV went out on top, and neither he nor we had to watch any decline in his abilities, although he left an unfillable void. Such a loss, but I guess it was his time, and he had learned all of his lessons, leaving the rest of us behind to learn ours. (I would imagine after a lifetime of abusing his body, his health would have started to decline at some point and that would have been sad to witness—-although his changed spirit would have been fully in tact, for sure.)

]]> By: Barbara http://www.jsharrison.com/blues/2006/01/21/stevie-ray-vaughan-12-string-acoustic-pride-and-joy/#comment-33 Barbara Fri, 03 Mar 2006 14:16:12 +0000 http://www.jsharrison.com/blues/2006/01/21/stevie-ray-vaughan-12-string-acoustic-pride-and-joy/#comment-33 In Step, which came out in June 1989, won a Grammy in February of 1990. According to Keri Leigh's biography, Stevie Ray: Soul to Soul, the MTV Unplugged recordings took place a few days after the Grammys---so that would have been February or March of 1990, I believe. Those acoustic recordings are so great, aren't they. It would have been amazing it we'd had decades more to see where he chose to go/explore musically. What a gift. Knowing that he is at peace now is comforting, after a lifetime full of hurt and pain and angst. God is merciful. In a way, it is a blessing SRV went out on top, and neither he nor we had to watch any decline in his abilities, although he left an unfillable void. Such a loss, but I guess it was his time, and he had learned all of his lessons, leaving the rest of us behind to learn ours. (I would imagine after a lifetime of abusing his body, his health would have started to decline at some point and that would have been sad to witness----although his changed spirit would have been fully in tact, for sure.) In Step, which came out in June 1989, won a Grammy in February of 1990. According to Keri Leigh’s biography, Stevie Ray: Soul to Soul, the MTV Unplugged recordings took place a few days after the Grammys—so that would have been February or March of 1990, I believe.

Those acoustic recordings are so great, aren’t they. It would have been amazing it we’d had decades more to see where he chose to go/explore musically. What a gift.

Knowing that he is at peace now is comforting, after a lifetime full of hurt and pain and angst. God is merciful. In a way, it is a blessing SRV went out on top, and neither he nor we had to watch any decline in his abilities, although he left an unfillable void. Such a loss, but I guess it was his time, and he had learned all of his lessons, leaving the rest of us behind to learn ours. (I would imagine after a lifetime of abusing his body, his health would have started to decline at some point and that would have been sad to witness—-although his changed spirit would have been fully in tact, for sure.)

]]> By: Jeff in Korea http://www.jsharrison.com/blues/2006/01/21/stevie-ray-vaughan-12-string-acoustic-pride-and-joy/#comment-32 Jeff in Korea Mon, 30 Jan 2006 17:24:08 +0000 http://www.jsharrison.com/blues/2006/01/21/stevie-ray-vaughan-12-string-acoustic-pride-and-joy/#comment-32 I'm not sure. I’m not sure.

]]> By: Gregg Pellegrino http://www.jsharrison.com/blues/2006/01/21/stevie-ray-vaughan-12-string-acoustic-pride-and-joy/#comment-31 Gregg Pellegrino Mon, 30 Jan 2006 15:43:20 +0000 http://www.jsharrison.com/blues/2006/01/21/stevie-ray-vaughan-12-string-acoustic-pride-and-joy/#comment-31 Doe ANYONE know what year this was recorded?? Doe ANYONE know what year this was recorded??

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