This is an illuminating opportunity to get up close with blues maestros Stevie Ray Vaughan and Albert King as they join forces for a Canadian TV show recorded in 1983. What makes it so special is at there are no fancy production tricks getting in the way. The premise of the programme was as simple as the title suggests: just set the two of them up and press play.
King was 60, Vaughan was 29, so there’s an element of master and precocious pupil that’s obvious from the moment King launches into his signature Born Under A Bad Sign before handing over to Vaughan for the first solo of the night. And Vaughan does not disappoint.
