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Jimmie Vaughan: The Pleasure's All Mine
by Doug Collette
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).
read moreJimmie Vaughan: Baby, Please Come Home
by Doug Collette
Jimmie Vaughan has never risen to the level of stardom his late brother Stevie Ray Vaughan attained, but the elder sibling hasn't been any less loyal to the blues during the course of his career. Founding and maintaining the Fabulous Thunderbirds since 1974 (quite a bit prior to the renaissance of the genre his younger and flashier relative ignited), Jimmie Vaughan has also continued a string of solo endeavors, the latest example of which is Baby, Please Come Home. Far ...
read moreJimmie Vaughan: Live at C-Boy's
by Doug Collette
Over the course of eight selections and a total running time of approximately thirty-six minutes, the Jimmie Vaughan Trio make Live at C-Boy's short and sweet, and deliciously so. The band enhances the simplicity of the three piece format with takes on tunes as well-known as Bruce Channel's Hey Baby"and the blues-soul staple Saint James Infirmary," turning the familiarity of the material into a distinct advantages. As a result, the opening number, You Can't Sit Down" sound like an irresistible ...
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