Ronnie James

Jimmie Vaughan: The Pleasure's All Mine

Read "The Pleasure's All Mine" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette
February 13, 2021

This double CD/triple LP set contains the first two segments of a Jimmie Vaughan musical trilogy begun a decade ago with Blues Ballads and Favorites (Shout, 2010). Succeeded a year later with a similarly-titled follow-up, it has subsequently been long unavailable, but has been reissued in anticipation of the seventieth birthday of Stevie Ray's older sibling and, as such, this composite is a natural companion piece to the final installment, Baby Please Come Home (The Last Music Co., 2019).

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Obituary

Ronnie James Dio Heavy Metal Rocker Played with Black Sabbath Dies

Source: All About Jazz
May 17, 2010

Ronnie James Dio, whose soaring vocals, poetic lyrics and mythic tales of a never-ending struggle between good and evil broke new ground in heavy metal, died Sunday, according to a statement from his wife and manager. He was 67. Dio revealed last summer that he was suffering from stomach cancer shortly after wrapping up a tour in Atlantic City, N.J. with the latest incarnation of Black Sabbath, under the name Heaven And Hell. “Today my heart is broken, Wendy Dio ...
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