Sony Legacy is currently planning another Stevie Ray Vaughan reissue, this one a two-CD set of hit tracks featuring no rarities or oddities whatsoever. Jimmie Vaughan has approved the track selection, but I know, you’re wondering why they should bother with another hits collection anyhow. What’s wrong with the existing ones? Well, nothing, but Legacy has had good sales on the Essential series featuring Neil Diamond, Johnny Cash, Tony Bennett and others, so they’re adding an Essential Stevie Ray Vaughan to the line. Can’t wait to see what Dallas Observer SRV-repackage-hater Robert Wilonsky has to say about this. Perhaps he’ll offer a plug for the package, like, “Two thumbs up — up the butt of SRV’s spinning corpse!”

This article appears in August 2 • 2002.

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