Welcome to the first installment of The SRV "Sky Is Crying" Blueprint. In this series, I'm going to look at Stevie Ray Vaughan's recording of this song from several angles. If you have any comments or questions about the video, feel free to leave them in the comments section below the video.
This first video is all about the history of the song, before Stevie Ray Vaughan ever recorded it.
As I've gotten older, I've become more interested in blues history. I wasn't always this way. When I was younger, I really didn't care that much about where blues came from. If it happened before Stevie Ray Vaughan, I wasn't interested.
I'm not sure when that began to change, but today I am pretty passionate about spreading awareness of this history, especially when it overlaps with my lessons.
A few weeks ago, when I posted about this song on Facebook, somebody commented that they didn't even realize it wasn't Stevie's song. This kind of misunderstanding is pretty common whenever a cover of a song becomes more popular than the original.
So before we dig deep into Stevie's amazing recording of this song, we're going back to the beginning in the early 1960s, when the song was written.
Track Links
Here are links to all the tracks used in this video for various streaming services.
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Elmore James |
Shake Your Money Maker: The Best of the Fire Sessions |
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Hound Dog Taylor, Odie Payne, Dillard Crume & Little Walter |
American Folk Blues Festival '67 (Live) |
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Albert King |
Years Gone By |
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Johnny Walker & Earl Hooker |
Simply The Best |
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Fenton Robinson |
Monday Morning Boogie & Blues (Remastered) |
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Freddie King |
Texas Cannonball |
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George Thorogood & The Destroyers |
Move It On Over |
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Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble |
1984 Version |
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Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble |
1985 Version |