JIMMIE VAUGHAN - PLAYS MORE BLUES, BALLADS & FAVORITES

Jimmie Vaughan waited nine years before releasing last year’s Plays Blues, Ballads & Favorites, but it took only 12 more months to come back with a follow-up. The older brother and mentor to the late and enormously popular blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimmie Vaughan has played a major role for decades in carrying on blues traditions himself. The second volume of cover versions from the Texan guitarist proves as entertaining as last year's collection of vintage R&B and early rock'n'roll. Founder of the Fabulous Thunderbirds (and big brother to the late Stevie Ray), Vaughan yokes his stinging, minimalist guitar to a driving band laden with growling saxes. Standards such as Amos Milburn's "Bad Bad Whiskey" mix with unusual takes of Hank Williams and Ray Charles numbers as Vaughan switches between up-tempo rockers and down-hearted blues and his vocal sidekick, Lou Ann Barton, adds sass. An old master at play.

01. I Ain't Never
02. No Use Knocking
03. Teardrop Blues
04. I Hang My Head and Cry
05. It's Been A Long Time
06. Breaking Up Is Hard To Do
07. What Makes You So Tough
08. Greenbacks
09. I'm In The Mood For You
10. I Ain't Gonna Do It No More
11. Cried Like A Baby
12. Oh Oh Oh
13. I'm A Love You
14. The Rains Came
15. Bad Bad Whiskey
16. Shake A Hand                                                                                                                                 http://www.fileserve.com/file/d7GUtz7

JIMMIE VAUGHAN - PLAYS BLUES, BALLADS & FAVORITES

The blues-rock master's first album in nine years! Blues, Ballads and Favorites is blues-rock pioneer Jimmie Vaughan's tribute to the music that inspired him, with covers of songs by Little Richard, Jimmy Reed, Roy Milton, Roscoe Gordon and others. The album was recorded in Austin, Texas, and features legendary blues singer Lou Ann Barton on two tracks. Other highlights include a brand-new instrumental, "Comin' & Goin'," and a version of Willie Nelson's "Funny How Time Slips Away" featuring vocals by Bill Willis, the famed Hammond organ player who recorded with James Brown and Bill Doggett. Vaughan founded the iconic Fabulous Thunderbirds in 1974, and they became famous for the high-octane blues-rock sound that earned them critical acclaim in the '70s and platinum-selling albums in the '80s. In 1990, Vaughan recorded a duets album, Family Style, with his brother, Stevie Ray Vaughan, shortly before the latter's untimely death, and then went on to a successful solo career. - amazon.com

01. The Pleasures All Mine
02. Come Love
03. I'm Leaving It Up To You
04. Comin' And Goin'
05. Wheel Of Fortune
06. How Can You Be So Mean
07. Just A Little Bit
08. Miss You So
09. RM Blues
10. Roll Roll Roll
11. Send Me Some Lovin'
12. She's Got The Blues For Sale
13. Funny How Time Slips Away                                                                                                          http://www.fileserve.com/file/zxTHwfC