Double Trouble - “Been A Long Time” (2001)

MP3 VBR | 56 M | APE CUE| 291 M

Genre: Rock | Styles:Blues-Rock

When Stevie Ray Vaughan died in August 1990, a musical talent of surpassing brilliance was transformed into legend. While those of us who loved his music can only fantasize about where he might have taken us with his unearthly ability, there can be little doubt that his music at the time of his death was the best he had ever made. His future, along with those of his bandmates in Double Trouble, was as close to a lock cinch as there was in the business. It is difficult to overestimate the sense of loss and displacement that Stevie Ray’s death must have been to those who shared his stage and place in the light. Difficult, too, to try to predict how they might fare in putting the pieces back together without him.

There are many of us who find in music the power to heal and soothe. A wonderful new CD by Double Trouble bassist Tommy Shannon and percussionist Chris Layton, “Been a Long Time,” is a bracing example of that power. Along with fellow Double Trouble collaborators, keyboardist Reese Wynans and singer-songwriter Doyle Bramhall II, we are treated here to an invigorating blend of blues, R&B and rock from some folks who obviously have paid their dues and have emerged with spirit very much intact.

Double Trouble here takes a familiar place for them, namely in the background while a coterie of famous and almost famous friends such as Dr. John, Jonny Lang, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Susan Tedeschi, Willie Nelson, Charlie Sexton and Lou Ann Barton, among others, take center stage. Nevertheless, Double Trouble has song-writing credits on 6 of the 10 cuts, and there clearly is not a throw-away in the mix.

When Malford Milligan pleads for healing on the opening song, Cry Sky, “I’ve lost many things I have always loved; Just let your big waters fall; ’till I make sense of it all”, there is the expectation that redemption lies in wait if only we can hang on through the pain. When Susan Tedeschi celebrates being In the Garden, “No fire can ever harm us; Only music fills the air”, we know that the music has delivered. Double Trouble has delivered a good one for all of us.

Tracklist:

01 - Cry Sky

02 - Turn Towards the Mirror

03 - Say One Thing

04 - Rock and Roll

05 - Skyscraper

06 - In the Middle of the Night

07 - She’s All Right

08 - Groundhog Day

09 - In the Garden

10 - Baby, There’s No One Like You

11 - Hidden Track

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