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  Jimmie Vaughan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jimmie Vaughan (born in March 21, 1951 in Dallas, Texas) is an American blues guitarist and singer.
Jimmie Vaughan's style was influenced by Freddie King who gave him personal advice.
In 2001 Vaughan paid an installment on his (and the Fabulous Thunderbirds') huge debt to harmonica swamp blues when he contributed guitar to the Lazy Lester album Blues Stop Knockin'.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jimmie_Vaughan   (322 words)

  
 Stevie Ray Vaughan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Vaughan's sound and playing style, which often features simultaneous lead and rhythm parts, also draws frequent comparisons to that of Jimi Hendrix; Vaughan covered several Hendrix tunes on his studio albums and in performance.
Vaughan's comeback was cut short when, in the early morning of August 27, 1990, he died in a helicopter crash near East Troy, Wisconsin following a concert at the Alpine Valley Music Theater where earlier in the evening he appeared with Robert Cray, Buddy Guy, Eric Clapton and his older brother Jimmie Vaughan.
Jimmie Vaughan later co-wrote and recorded a song in tribute to his brother and other late blues guitarists, entitled "Six Strings Down".
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stevie_Ray_Vaughan   (1509 words)

  
 Interviews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Jimmie Vaughan is all over the stage, demonstrating a slinky riff for Eric Clapton, Buddy Guy and Bonnie Raitt even as he teaches Robert Cray, Art Neville and Dr. John vocal cues.
Vaughan, King, Clapton, Guy and Co. are all old friends, and their gathering was, in fact, a spectacular act of friendship, one which is now captured for posterity on a new album and video, both titled A Tribute to Stevie Ray Vaughan.
Vaughan's trio of backup singers took the stage for "Tick Tock," and mono-named vocalist Briz took the song to church, building a gospel fervor that was picked up on by King, who launched a soaring cluster of blue notes which ascended like a mournful lamentation for Stevie Ray.
www26.brinkster.com /jakapa/srv/inter/tribute.htm   (2102 words)

  
 Fender®   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Jimmie Vaughan is far more than just one of the greatest and most respected guitarists in the world of popular music.
Jimmie Vaughan is more modest in assessing his abilities, though very clear when it comes to his approach.
Jimmie Vaughan's style as a player, songwriter and bandleader can be thought of as an amalgamation of so many influences.
www.fender.com /artists/artists.php?artist=jimmie_vaughan   (1771 words)

  
 Austin City Limits - Interviews - Season 27 - 11/17/2001 - Jimmie Vaughan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Jimmie Vaughan: I think my guitar sound and style is, I learned a lot from, since I was like 14, 13 years old I studied all those blues records, and all the guitar players.
Jimmie Vaughan: Yeah, my style is different than 10 years ago, basically because when I was in the T-Birds, so to speak, I had a different role.
Jimmie Vaughan: Oh, no, no, no, no. We had so much really good airplay and such a great reaction in "The Middle of the Night"that when I heard this song I thought this is the perfect thing to do, we'll do another one, and I'll get her to sing.
www.aclfestival.com /interviews/interviews20011117_2.asp   (1372 words)

  
 Revitalized Jimmie Vaughan keeps the faith   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Jimmie Vaughan wasn't just a guitar player in a band, or the guy that got Stevie Ray started on guitar.
Vaughan's first solo effort, 1994's "Strange Pleasure" (Epic), was an intensely personal album, dedicated to his brother and Albert Collins.
Vaughan is much more comfortable talking guitar -- from the pleasure he gets playing live to the sometimes exasperating songwriting process.
www.jsonline.com /letsgo/daily/0820jimmie.stm   (1098 words)

  
 ROCKZONE.COM: Interviews: Jimmie Vaughan/Fabulous Thunderbirds
Jimmie Vaughan: Yeah, I was nominated for a Grammy, the Grammies are coming up.
Jimmie: I’ve got a lot of things that are coming up, just what I do, gigs, promoting the new record, the Grammies, and that’s enough.
Jimmie: Well, the way blues works is that there is a melody, and a beginning and an end, sorta.
www.rockzone.com /interviews/images/jimmievaughan.shtml   (2047 words)

  
 pitch.com | Music | Jimmie Vaughan
In a genre that defines itself on pedigrees that can be traced back to elder statesmen such as Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters, Jimmie Vaughan is bound by bloodline to arguably the most influential modern master.
Though three years older than his late brother Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimmie -- and nearly every other self-proclaimed bluesman to pick up a guitar over the past two decades -- has always stood in the shadow of his big little brother.
The elder Vaughan's crisp, understated style has always been a complement to his brother's bravado, once prompting Stevie Ray to admit, "I play probably 80 percent of what I can play.
music.pitch.com /Issues/2003-12-11/music/critics6.html   (144 words)

  
 The Austin Chronicle Music: All-American
Since that time, Vaughan has been through almost as many life changes as the previous five years, when he left the Fabulous Thunderbirds, got sober, and his brother Stevie was killed in a 1990 helicopter crash just before the debut of their one and only joint recording, Family Style.
When Storm split, Vaughan re-emerged in 1975 with the Fabulous Thunderbirds, Antone's was born, and the promise of the blues was wild and free.
Vaughan's not being heartless; he's got a talented son himself to champion in Tyrone, and his support is paternal and steady.
www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2001-11-23/music_feature.html   (3144 words)

  
 Blues To Do's-Achived Feature Stories
Once overshadowed by his younger brother, the late Stevie Ray, Jimmie Vaughan has come into his own and garnered the respect of his peers as well as amassed his own fan base.
Jimmie Vaughan solidified himself as a leader in the new wave of blues artists with his 1998 release Out There, which was nominated for another Grammy.
At 51 years of age, Jimmie Vaughan has just gotten started and he continues to tour, record, and inspire up-and-coming blues guitarists with his individual approach to music.
www.bluestodo.com /archives/2002/october/jimmievaughan.htm   (503 words)

  
 Great Performances . Dialogue . Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival . Jimmie Vaughan | PBS
Born in 1953 in Dallas, Texas, Jimmie Vaughan began playing the guitar when he was 13, and within a few years was the lead guitarist for the Chessmen, a popular local band known for covering tunes by Jimi Hendrix and Cream.
Vaughan was still in his teens when the band opened for Hendrix in Dallas.
Jimmie Vaughan: Yeah, I met him in the 1980s when I first started touring with the Fabulous Thunderbirds.
www.pbs.org /wnet/gperf/dialogue/dialogue_clapton_jvaughan.html   (1356 words)

  
 OMEGA EVENTS: THE DOHENY BLUES FESTIVAL: Performer Bios: JIMMIE VAUGHAN AND THE TILT-A-WHIRL BAND   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Vaughan provides a vital link between contemporary music and its proud heritage, as well as being a longtime avatar of retro cool.
Vaughan has fashioned his most compelling and appealing musical statement yet, with special guests including Double Trouble, Lou Ann Barton and his son Tyrone Vaughan, who co-wrote and plays guitar on one of the tracks.
Vaughan recorded eight albums with The Fabulous Thunderbirds; on the strength of hits such as "Tuff Enuff" and years of worldwide touring, The Fabulous Thunderbirds brought the blues back into the pop charts.
www.omegaevents.com /blues/bios_jimmyvaughan.html   (660 words)

  
 Dean Cameron, Jimmie Vaughan set for LP Convention   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
He's Jimmie Vaughan, a founding member of the Fabulous Thunderbirds, brother of fellow blues legend Stevie Ray Vaughan, creator of the Jimmie Vaughan Stratocaster guitar, and purveyor of classic blues riffs and retro rock cool.
Vaughan will perform at a benefit concert during the convention (date to be announced) that will also be open to the public.
"Jimmie Vaughan is a sweet and humble guy who likes to play the guitar," she said.
www.lpconvention.org /printer_50.shtml   (1076 words)

  
 JIMMIE VAUGHAN - Blues Music Artists - Corporate Entertainment Booking
Prior to leaving the group in 1990, Jimmie had joined up with his brother Stevie to record "Family Style," an album that reflected their mutually deep musical roots and maturing modern artistic sophistication.
The resulting disc, "Strange Pleasure," was produced by Nile Rodgers (who worked with the Vaughan brothers on "Family Style"), featured 11 songs written or co-written by Jimmie, and was dedicated to Stevie Ray and the recently-deceased Albert Collins.
As Jimmie Vaughan emerged as an artist in his own right, his reputation as a master musician became even more apparent, thanks to the admiration of blues legends like B.B. King and Buddy Guy, such guitar superstars as Eric Clapton and ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons, and rising talents like Jonny Lang and Kenny Wayne Shepherd.
www.delafont.com /music_acts/jimmie-vaughan.htm   (1432 words)

  
 Jimmie Vaughan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Vaughan began playing rock music as an adolescent and worked with several local bands, moving nearer to the blues with each one, finally establishing a formidable reputation as a guitar player.
The band were often cited as one of the prime movers in the blues revival in '80s America, with Vaughan's stylish, pared-down and economical guitar playing a major factor.
He recorded on many sessions and left the Thunderbirds in 1990 to work with his brother Stevie Ray Vaughan, shortly before the latter's death.
www.centrohd.com /bio/allmusic/awb1.htm   (113 words)

  
 VH1.com : Jimmie Vaughan : Biography
Born and raised in Dallas, TX, Jimmie Vaughan began playing guitar as a child.
At the same time the T-Birds were left without a recording contract, Jimmie's younger brother, Stevie Ray Vaughan, came storming upon the national scene with his debut album, Texas Flood.
By 1989, Jimmie Vaughan was frustrated by the group's musical direction and he left the band.
www.vh1.com /artists/az/vaughan_jimmie/bio.jhtml   (564 words)

  
 Jimmie Vaughan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
I had seen Jimmie Vaughan a few times before, such as at BB King's Blues Festival, Sea World, San Antonio Texas September 19, 1997, as well as Antone's, Austin, Texas, but on July 6, 2004, I had the privilege of seeing him up close at The Birchmere, Alexandria, Virginia.
Jimmie is part of a musical dynasty that includes his legendary guitar playing brother Stevie Ray, who as any that follow guitar know, left this world way too soon.
Jimmie (and Lou Ann Barton) carry on the rich tradition of Texas Blues, and based on what I saw at The Birchmere, have a lot of mileage left.
www.tunefan.com /jimmievaughan.htm   (384 words)

  
 Interviews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Jimmie Vaughan: Well, when I think about him, I think about him as my little brother, I mean, he was an unbelievable musician...we all know that.
Jimmie Vaughan: We knew that everybody expected us to come out doin' a...a Blues jam, double leads on everything and, and uh, you know, like a...gun fight at OK Corral, you know...and we didn't want to do that.
Jimmie Vaughan: At first when I started listening to all the stuff, I didn't really know whether there was even gonna be a record.
www26.brinkster.com /jakapa/srv/inter/upclose96.htm   (3429 words)

  
 Jimmie Vaughan: The Essential Jimmie Vaughan - All CDs $5.99 and Free Shipping at yourmusic.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The reason is obvious after one listen: Vaughan's truly unbelievable diversity and many faceted approach to lead, rhythm, fills, soloing, and comping is so inspired, so uncompromising that he would lift the profile of any band he played with.
Fully aware of the hate mail this may generate, it is not too soon nor is it inaccurate to place Vaughan in the same pantheon with Freddie King, T-Bone Walker, and Albert Collins.
Vaughan's deep soul roots move through the staid playing of his own peers and root his brand of Texas blues in a continuum of not only his chosen genre, but R&B, gospel, rockabilly, and country as well.
www.yourmusic.com /browse/album/54787.html   (369 words)

  
 Stevie Ray Vaughan
This remarkable blues guitarist was influenced by his older brother Jimmie Vaughan (of the Fabulous Thunderbirds), whose record collection included key Vaughan motivators such as Albert King, Otis Rush and Lonnie Mack.
Vaughan died in 1990, at East Troy, Wisconsin, USA, when, anxious to return to Chicago after Clapton's Milwaukee show, he switched helicopter seats and boarded a vehicle that crashed, in dense fog, into a ski hill.
Vaughan was a magnificent ambassador for the blues, whose posthumous reputation continues to increase.
www.blues101.org /biographies/biosrv.htm   (389 words)

  
 MusicAustin: Jimmie Vaughan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The younger Vaughan's tragic death in a helicopter crash in 1990 changed those plans and Jimmie struggled with the loss.
Jimmie and his Tilt-A-Whirl Band have kept moving in recent years, receiving Grammy awards, touring Europe, and playing with such luminaries as Eric Clapton.
Vaughan creates his own sound with the organ, horns, male back-up singers, and his vocals and guitar licks in the mix on Out There.
www.musicaustin.com /blues/jvaughan.html   (392 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Out There: Music: Jimmie Vaughan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Jimmie is an underrated bluesman with a voice as smooth as albert King and a guitar style as cool as B.B. King.
Jimmie Vaughan may not be a guitar god like his brother but I think this album seals him in as being one of the most talented living bluesman alive and as having one of the most easily spotted styles aside of that.
I'm well aware that Jimmie is not his brother, and to be honest, I play Jimmie's cds as often as Stevie's, but this one is so dull, it just leaves me cold.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000007NAF?v=glance   (941 words)

  
 HIGH BIAS -- Jimmie Vaughan, Jake Andrews, Gary Clark, Nick Currin-- live concert review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Vaughan and his Tilt-a-Whirl Band (featuring master organist Bill Willis) ran through the usual assortment of 12-bar shuffles, funky RandB tunes and variations on Elmore James' "Dust My Broom," with the leader's stinging picking and soulful vocalizing front-and-center.
Vaughan does this well, but he can also do it in his sleep, and for all the ultracompetent musicianship it was difficult to locate much inspiration.
Vaughan is never less than rock-solid, but he's gotten to the point where he needs to challenge himself if he wants his music to remain interesting to him, let alone his audience.
www.highbias.com /reviews/20020331_live.html   (378 words)

  
 Jimmie Official Jimmie Vaughan Website.
Jimmie Johnson and Team 48 race at Homestead-Miami Speedway on Sunday Find out what other Jimmie fans are saying about the Ford 400.
Jimmie Johnson startling consistency was one of the surprises of 2002.
Jimmie was born March 28, 1910, in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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 Jimmie Vaughan Interview
Jimmie, one of the most respected blues guitar players performing today, is a throwback to the 50's.
Jimmie comes from the "less-is-more" style of guitar playing that is powerfully demonstrated on his new album.
This interview was conducted from Jimmie's cell phone outside a restaurant in Orlando, FL where he had just gotten off his tour bus getting ready for a show later that night.
www.mnblues.com /review/2002/jv-intv-2-02-rs.html   (1630 words)

  
 Jimmie Vaughan Bookmarks
In fact I would go so far as to say that Jimmie Vaughan has captured the "true" Texas blues sound, much more so than his brother Stevie Ray Vaughan did.
Jimmie Vaughan's solo CDs draw the listener to the dance floor with their partner.
But in the end whatever Jimmie Vaughan song you are listening to you will be drawn to the earthy rhythm blues sound that is Texas Blues.
www.jcdisciples.org /musicians/jimmievaughan   (350 words)

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