We Are Called Double Trouble



We Are Called Double Trouble - various club shows plus studio material
[Dandelion, DL 008/9/10/11/12] (5CD set) (Netherlands, 1998)
CD 1: [DL008] (72:02, 17 tracks)
Live at The Soap Creek Saloon, Austin, Texas, 02-Mar-79
Tracks 9-13 include Lou Ann Barton on vocals.
Average audience recording with good sound mix. The vocals are clear and loud but the bass guitar is quite saturated and makes the music difficult to listen to sometimes, especially on "Boilermaker" and the tracks that follow. The mix changes a little in the middle of the show and when Lou Ann sings. Probably from a very low generation master as there's nearly no noise and hiss.

01) Instrumenta (l2:42) (incomplete - cuts in)
02) Jeff's Boogie (2:28) "Rude Mood"
03) True Love Is Gone (6:22) "Dirty Pool"
04) I'm Crying (3:28)
05) May I Have A Talk With You (3:59) "Love Me Darlin'"
06) Love Struck Baby (2:24)
07) All Your Love (I Miss loving) (5:57)
08) Texas Flood (5:51)
09) So Excited / intro for Lou Ann Barton / You Can Have My Husband (5:26)
10) TI-NI-NEE-NI-NU (3:16)
11) I'll Change (4:15)
12) Scratch My Back (3:31)
13) Sugar Coated Love / Scuttle Buttin' (5:33) (outro theme for Lou Ann)
14) Jazzy Instrumental (3:00) "Boilermaker"
15) Gonna Miss Me (3:20) "Empty Arms"
16) Don't Lose Your Good Thing (6:50) "Done Lost Your Good Thing Now"
17) Pride And Joy (3:30)

CD 2: [DL009] (71:03, 16 tracks)
Live at The Cascade Room in The Knickerbocker Cafe, Westerly, RI, 22-Nov-79
Tracks 9-15 include Lou Ann Barton on vocals.
Very good sound quality, possibly from a soundboard source. The sound mix is good but the crowd noise and guitar are on one side with the bass and drums on the other. Overall, the sound is excellent compared to the first volume (above) even if the voice and bass guitar are slightly saturated. Great show!

01) True Love Is Gone (6:26) "Dirty Pool"
02) Pride And Joy (4:41)
03) Love Struck Baby (2:45)
04) Instrumental (3:03) "Hideaway"
05) Stevie's Blues (5:53) "In The Open"
06) Jeff's Boogie (4:24) "Rude Mood"
07) The Sky Is Crying (4:43)
08) May I Have A Talk With You (5:01) "Love Me Darlin'"
09) So Exited / intro for Lou Ann Barton / You Can Have My Husband (5:59)
10) TI-NI-NEE-NI-NU (3:09)
11) I'll Change (4:07)
12) Oh, Yeah (4:06)
13) Natural Born Lover (3:57)
14) Hip Hip Baby (2:57)
15) If You Lose Me, You Lose A Good Thing (4:36)
16) Texas Blues (5:04) "Collins Shuffle"

CD 3: [DL010] (71:05, 17 tracks)
Live at Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel, Providence, RI, 24-Nov-79
Tracks 3-8 include Lou Ann Barton on vocals.
Excellent audience recording. Very good mix, clear and loud vocals.

01) True Love Is Gone (7:48) "Dirty Pool"
02) I'm Cryin' (3:58)
03) So Exited / intro for Lou Ann Barton / You Can Have My Husband (4:42)
04) TI-NI-NEE-NI-NU (3:25)
05) I'll Change (3:54)
06) Sugar Coated Love (3:43)
07) Natural Born Lover (2:17) (incomplete)
08) Hip Hip Baby (2:19) (incomplete)
09) Texas Blues (5:24) "Collins Shuffle"
10) Instrumental (1:10) (incomplete)
11) The Sky Is Crying (5:08)
12) Love Struck Baby (2:56)
13) May I Have A Talk With You (5:04)
14) Don't Lose Your good Thing (8:37)
15) My Baby's Gone (4:22)
16) Chitlin's Con Carne (2:44) "Stang's Swang"
17) Closing Time Tune (3:16) Fantastic !!!!

CD 4: [DL011] (67:52, 12 tracks)
Live at the Holiday Inn, Groton, CT, -Mar-80
The Holiday Inn show has the best sound quality of this set.
Excellent mix, clear vocals.

01) Love Struck Baby (2:02) (incomplete - cuts in)
02) May I Have A Talk With You (4:12) "Love Me Darlin'"
03) Tin Pan Alley (10:01)
04) Shake For Me (4:52)
05) Wham (4:47)
06) Come On, Part One (5:19)
07) True Love Is Gone (8:32) "Dirty Pool"
08) I'm Cryin' (4:28)
09) A Letter To My Girlfriend (3:08)
10) I Tried (4:09)
11) Little Wing (5:07) (instrumental) / Drivin' South / Third Stone From The Sun (11:07)

CD 5: [DL012] (72:42, 21 tracks)
Live at the Holiday Inn, Groton, CT, -Mar-80 (tracks 1-5)
Unreleased Studio Album recorded in Nashville at Jack Clement's Belmont
Studio -Nov-79 (tracks 6-15)
Live at The Soap Creek Saloon, Austin, Texas, 02-Mar-79 (pt2) (tracks 16-21)
The Holiday Inn show has the best sound quality of this set. Excellent< mix, clear vocals. The studio tracks are the same as those on "Nashville 1978".

01) Rude Mood (4:50)
02) Close To You (3:06)
03) You'll Be Mine (3:54)
04) Gonna Miss Me (3:49) "Empty Arms"
05) Instrumental (3:35) "Boilermaker"
06) You Can Have My Husband (2:52) (Lou Ann Barton on vocals)
07) Rude Mood (3:25)
08) Pride And Joy (2:59)
09) Oh, Yeah (3:00) (Lou Ann Barton on vocals)
10) Love Struck Baby (2:04)
11) Ti-Ni-Nee-Ni-Nu (2:44) (Lou Ann Barton on vocals)
12) Gonna Miss Me (2:22) "Empty Arms"
13) I Wonder Why (5:31) (Lou Ann Barton on vocals)
14) I'm Cryin' (3:30)
15) Sugar Coated Love (3:22) Lou Ann Barton on vocals
16) Tell Me (2:58)
17) Tin Pan Alley (7:21)
18) Hurricane (2:33) "They Call Me Guitar Hurricane"
19) My Baby's Gone (4:03) "Woke Up This Morning"
20) Shake For Me (3:17)
21) Wham (0:57) (incomplete)

Notes and Comments:

These "new" CDs: Holiday (CT 78), Live at Lupos (live 79), Live at the Silk Creek Saloon (live 79), Through the Night (RI 79) are actually part of the 5-CD set. I believe what's happening here is that the place that's selling these is making the individual discs available separately, and is either getting these titles off of the discs or they're attempting to put their own "titles" to them. SRV never played at the Silk Creek Saloon, but he DID play at the Soap Creek.

We Are Called Double Trouble (below?)Average audience recording. Good mix, the voice is "clear" and loud, the bass guitar is quite saturated and makes the whole music difficult to listen to sometimes, especially on the Jazzy instrumental and the following tracks. The mix changes a little in the middle of the show and when Lou Ann sings. Probably a very low generation master as there's nearly no noise and hiss.

Recorded Live at The Soap Creek Saloon, Austin Texas, April 1979 (part1)
(below?)Average audience recording. Good mix, the voice is "clear" and loud, the bass guitar is quite saturated and makes the whole music difficult to listen to sometimes, especially on the Jazzy instrumental and the following tracks. The mix changes a little in the middle of the show and when Lou Ann sings. Probably a very low generation master as there's nearly no noise and hiss.

Live from The Cascade Room at The Knickerbocker Cafe, Westerly, RI, Nov.22nd 1979
Soundboard ? probably not but the sound is very good, very listenable anyway. Good mix but you get the crowd and guitar on one side and the Drums and vocals on the other side. The sound is really excellent compared to the first volume even if the voice and bass guitar are slightly saturated. Great show !

Live from Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel, Providence, RI, Nov.24th 1979
Excellent audience recording. The mix is very good, clear and loud vocals. Nothing else to say. Stevie smokes that night !!

Live at the Holiday Inn, Groton CT., March 1980
The Holiday Inn show has the best sound quality of this set. Excellent mix, clear vocals. Better than "FON" (IMHO). The studio tracks are the same as what you can find on "Nashville 1978".

This is a 5CD set. Mine came in a cardboard box with a poster, though I have not seen many of these complete for sale. Often seen for sale as individual CD's in a rapidly reducing number of places in London. I believe I have read within your pages that the 1980 date for the Groton gig has been questioned. I am not surprised. Before track 6 Come On (part 3) SRV introduces the band and it includes Tommy Shannon on fender base. This may be one of those gigs that he sat in on, or could it one of those gigs after Tommy joined the band. This would clearly push it well past 1980. Does anyone know?
A great set of CD's with mega versions of Dirty Pool at every gig!
If you can still get it, and don't have the money, or someone to CDR it for you, sell your granny, mother-in-law, sell the house or your body! It 's that good.

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