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Larry Davis - Down Home Funk (full version)

'A slow burning soul groover from '75 with nice use of mellotron (or maybe the cheaper version known as a chamberlain.) from "True Soul Volume 2 - Deep Sounds from the Left of Stax" which documents the little known True Soul label from Little Rock, Arkansas.'

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Larry Davis

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Kurt Cobain at Nirvana’s final Los Angeles concert, December 30, 1993 at the Forum, by Larry Davis, my edit of original via latimes

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Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble: Live Alive (1986)

This was the first Stevie Ray Vaughan LP I ever owned, not long after it first came out in 1986, but I actually parted with it for many years (I’m talking decades), as I was perfectly satisfied with his studio efforts for most of that time.

I mean, as live albums go, especially doubles, the unimaginatively named Live Alive simply ain’t a classic.

Coinciding with Stevie Ray’s protracted recovery from decades of drug and alcohol abuse, vast tracts of these recordings from the Montreux Jazz Festival (July 15, 1985), the Austin Opera House (July 17 and 18, ‘86), and the Dallas Starfest (July 19, ‘86) were later fixed or overdubbed in the studio.

But when a singular six-string genius like Stevie Ray has his life cut so tragically short (remember, he expired in that freak helicopter crash some four years later, at the age of 35), every surviving note becomes a precious gem, every white-hot guitar solo a lasting treasure, every soulful vocal a breath of life extinguished too soon.

And Live Alive, for all its imperfections, still boats exemplary showcases of Stevie Ray’s generational guitar fireworks in “Pride and Joy,” “Ain't Gone ‘n’ Give Up on Love,” and Hendrix’s “Voodoo Child (Slight Return),” which he arguably interpreted better than anyone except for the master himself.

But only a fool would think there’s much of anything that’s authentically ‘live’ about workaday renditions of Vaughan staples like “Look at Little Sister,” “Love Struck Baby,” “Change It,” or Stevie Wonder’s “Superstition.”

That being said, every blues (and R&B) fan owes a vote of gratitude to S.R.V. for ‘restoring’ genre classics and relics like Buddy Guy’s “Mary Had a Little Lamb,” Howlin’ Wolf’ “I’m Leaving You (Commit a Crime),” Larry Davis’ “Texas Flood,” and Bill Carter’s hilarious “Willie the Wimp” for the ‘soulless overkill’ ‘80s, with his sheer chops and showmanship.

Meaning that, any way you slice them, good and bad, these performances are now invaluable records of Vaughan’s incredible talents, ably backed by his longtime rhythm section of veteran Johnny Winter bassist Tommy Shannon and drummer Chris ‘Whipper’ Layton -- a.k.a. Double Trouble -- plus keyboardist Reese Wynans, on the Texas dates.

Which begs the (pointless) question: shouldn’t they have been renamed Triple Trouble, or maybe Triple Threat, when Stevie finally returned to studio work with 1989’s In Step, after multiple delays connected to his divorce proceedings and continued recovery from chemical dependence?

Well, obviously, it hardly matters in light of Stevie Ray Vaughan’s aforementioned demise the following year, which robbed the planet of a one-of-a-kind artist at the cruelest possible time, mid-redemption, and with so much more potential greatness still ahead of him.

Ugh!

More Stevie Ray Vaughan: Texas Flood, Couldn’t Stand the Weather, Soul to Soul. 

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Today In Hip Hop History: Larry Davis Shoots 6 Corrupt NYPD Officers And Escapes 31 Years Ago

Today In Hip Hop History: Larry Davis Shoots 6 Corrupt NYPD Officers And Escapes 31 Years Ago

Some say he was 50 Cent before 50 Cent. Some called him “the Robin Hood of The Ghetto”, while the establishment dubbed him “the crack city terminator.” In the hood, his solution is considered the only possible answer to a continuous epidemic of police brutality. Some of your favorite rappers from French Montana to Lloyd Banks to Jay-Z have name dropped him on their tracks and BETfelt he was so…

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THE LARRY DAVIS WEDDING EXPERIENCE

THE SIMPSONS

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