A now-legendary musical meeting between bluesman Albert King
and a young Stevie Ray Vaughan on In Session, the great lost television series of the '80s, will be released on DVD packaged with a CD in a deluxe set from Stax Novemer 9.
King was joined on December 6, 1983 by Vaughan on a Canadian sound stage for the recording, which has appeared previously in audio, but now sees its first DVD release. The video portion includes three classic performances unavailable on the previously issued audio disc: “Born Under a Bad Sign,” the landmark title track from Albert King’s biggest Stax release written by William Bell and Booker T. Jones; Stevie Ray’s “Texas Flood,” the Larry Davis-penned title track of Vaughan’s landmark debut album; and “I’m Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town,” made famous by Louis Jordan and later, Ray Charles.
"It was evident from the first choruses that they were playing for each other," writes liner notes author/musicologist Samuel Charters, "And that was the best audience either of them could ever have. The music never lost its intensity, its quality of something very important being handed back and forth and there was time for Stevie and Albert to see where their ideas took them.”
While both King and Vaughan would perform with other musicians in the years that followed, they never played together again.Vaughan, 31 years King’s junior, died in a helicopter crash in the fog on the way back from a concert in 1990. King outlived him by two years, dying of a heart attack in 1992. That makes this fine release all the more historic and welcome in it's full form on DVD and CD.
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