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IMDB rating: 8.7 Aspect: 4:3; Languages: English; Subtitles: English; Audio: DD Surr.
Viewed today, Stevie Ray Vaughan's only two appearances on "Austin City Limits" (bookending, as they do, his recording career with Double Trouble) offer a study in contrasts and chronicle the evolution of a brief but amazing musical saga. As has repeatedly been cited by innumerable musicians who "knew him when," he could always play. That was a given. But the guitarslinger who took the release of his debut album, Texas Flood, and the Stevie Ray who returned in 1989, following the release of In Step, were two different people. In '83, still in his twenties, Stevie was hungry, out to prove something, visibly nervous, and not entirely stable. This was serious business. But by '89, at 35, he was a changed man. He was back at home, he had kicked drugs and alcohol, overcome living hell and a brush with death. From here on out was icing on the cake, and he savored every moment.
