Old Mother Hubbard must have Stevie Ray Vaughan’s number. The vaults for this legendary blues guitarist are becoming especially bare, judging from Solos, Sessions & Encores, an album that pulls the remainder of Vaughan’s stronger unreleased material together with a lot of widely available tunes under the guise of compiling his collaborative work.

To that extent, the album pilfers mainly from live tracks, doling out stuff we’ve heard a million times before (“The Sky is Crying,” “Goin’ Down”). The “previously unreleased” tunes are live jams of readily available songs, including “Oreo Cookie Blues,” “Albert’s Shuffle,” “On the Run” and “Texas Flood,” with a string of predictable guests such as Albert King, B.B. King, Bonnie Raitt and, naturally, SRV’s brother Jimmy Vaughan. Rounded out with previously released songs “Pipeline” and “Let’s Dance,” Solos, Sessions & Encores is an extremely thin addition to Vaughan’s legacy.

The tricky part is that these songs actually deliver memorable if not extraordinary guitar-slinging and vocals. Despite the obvious financial reasons for this album’s existence, hearing Vaughan trade licks with Lonnie Mack and Albert Collins is still sublime and exciting. It may be a retread, but Solos, Sessions & Encores is a fun path to beat down again.