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An intense?? high-powered performance from Stevie Ray's early days?? featuring Testify; Texas Flood; Wham!; Pride and Joy and his fiery interpretation of Jimi Hendrix's Voodoo Chile (Slight Return) . Also includes a 1999 interview with Double Trouble. 1983/color/63 min/NR/fullscreen.

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In 1990?? Texas bluesman Stevie Ray Vaughan was just emerging from a long period in which drugs had taken their toll: the previous year's In Step album was the first he had made drug free?? and the results were a marvel. But then?? after sharing a stage with Buddy Guy?? Robert Cray?? and Eric Clapton?? he boarded a helicopter to Chicago. It crashed?? and the career of one of the great blues guitarists was ended.

Rewind to 1983 and here is Stevie Ray at the be" his fame?? his first album with his backing band Double Trouble?? Texas Flood?? having just been released to critical and popular acclaim. The venue is the El Mocambo club in Toronto?? a dark?? smoky joint with a laid-back but appreciative clientele. Vaughan?? drummer Chris Layton?? and bassist Tommy Shannon share the tiny stage. The guitarist?? bedecked in trademark hat and alligator-skin boots?? is pale of complexion?? sweating f