Jimmie Vaughan

The Top Ten North Texas Blues Albums

See also: The best Texas songs of all time, #100-80 See also: The best Texas songs of all time, #79-60 Alex Moore, Alex Moore Barrelhouse pianist "Whistling" Alex Moore spent all of his life in Dallas, recording for Columbia in 1929, Decca in 1937, and RPM/Kent in 1951. During the '60s blues reviv ... More >>

Preview: Allen City Blues Festival at Allen Event Center

Sunday, May 27, at Allen Event Center

16 Memorial Day Weekend Shows: Homegrown Festival, Father John Misty, Float and More

Homegrown Music & Art FestivalSaturday, May 26, at Main Street Garden ParkFor the third annual installment of Homegrown Music & Arts Festival, the margins for bands have expanded to include all Texas acts. So this year's bill will feature Black Joe Lewis, Hayes Carll, Octopus Project and man ... More >>

Finally, Freddie King's in Rock Hall of Fame

98kzew.comKing at KZEW's Armadillo Festival at Fair Park on April 27, 1975​I hear jingle bells: Freddie King's in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Per this morning's heads-up from Cleveland, the Gilmer-born guitarist, singer and songwriter is this year's entry in the Early Influence category; damn ... More >>

When You've Lost Someone You Love: Doyle Brahmhall Has Died at the Age of 62

Garage HangoverDoyle Bramhall in 1967, as one of the Chessmen​Thirteen days from now, Doyle Bramhall was to return to the Granada, scene of this performance in 2007. But that show will not take place: The Dallas-born singer-songwriter and drummer -- a former Chessman with Jimmie Vaughan, a frequen ... More >>

Q & A: Jimmie Vaughan Talks Dallas vs. Austin, Bob Dylan and Ron Paul

Guitarist and songwriter Jimmie Vaughan was born and raised in Dallas. In the early 1960's, Jimmie, along with his brother, Stevie Ray, helped usher in one of the best eras of music in North Texas. Although their father introduced the Vaughan brothers to country music, the two would soon find in ... More >>

Kirby Warnock Opens Buddy Vaults to Show Off Rare Early Pics of Stevie Ray, Jimmie Vaughan

I noted this a few weeks back, but for those who've forgotten: Jimmie Vaughan will make his Oak Cliff homecoming on Thursday with a show at the Texas Theatre, part of the ongoing "Soul of Oak Cliff" series organized by Kirby Warnock. And leading up to that momentous occasion, Warnock -- there at the ... More >>

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: The Fab T-Birds Tear It Up at Fair Park Coliseum in '86

​We began the day by looking at old photos of Stevie Ray and Jimmie Vaughan courtesy Kirby Warnock, who's bringing Jimmie to the Texas Theatre for a very special homecoming show and chitchat. So, then, it's only appropriate to end it with this recent find from 1986: Jimmie, Kim Wilson, Preston Hub ... More >>

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: Jimmie Vaughan Says Howdy to Fair Park in May '98

Jimmie's first band was The Pendulums, which bowed at the 1966 Sunset High School Bisonettes Winter Dance.​Got an email from Kirby Warnock a few days ago that said Jimmie Vaughan would be returning to Oak Cliff on November 10 -- to the Texas Theatre, matter of fact, as part of his ongoing "Soul of ... More >>

On Terry Southern Day, Delia Jasso Presents His Son Nile With Greatest Proclamation Ever

Photo by Mark Aaron SharonNile Southern, Kirby Warnock and Delia Jasso at last night's tribute to Terry Southern at the Texas Theatre​Terry Southern -- novelist, screenwriter, journalist, provocateur -- would have turned 87 yesterday, had he not died of a heart attack in October 1995. And so, last ... More >>

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: Robert Cray and Stevie Ray at Club Redux For Q102

​Back in January 1987, if memory serves, Club Redux stood at the site of the present-day Taco Cabana on Lower Greenville, and that old Observer ad you see at right more or less hints at the kinds of acts that played there back when -- a little bit of this, a whole lotta that. But that advertisemen ... More >>

Watch: Jimmie Vaughan and Friends Performed "Just A Little Bit" For Conan Last Night

​He may not have earned himself an award nomination from the Blues Foundation like fellow Dallas native Steve Miller for his work this year, but, hey, the Dallas-born Jimmie Vaughan had other things fall his way in 2010 -- like, say, a Grammy nomination for Best Traditional Blues Album for his Pla ... More >>

Some People Call Steve Miller A Space Cowboy, Others A Rock Blues Album of the Year Nominee

​Back in June, Steve Miller and his Band released a new album called Bingo!, it's first studio release since 1993's Wide River, believe it or not. Of course, it didn't exactly feature new material -- instead, it featured cover songs from artists such as B.B. King, Lowell Fulson and Jimmy Reed. The ... More >>

By Our Count, Eight Or So Grammy Nominations Have Local(ish) Ties

​Last night, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences announced the nominees for the 2010 Grammy Awards, as they tend to do around this time of year. The winners won't be announced until the live awards show, which will air on CBS on Sunday, February 13, 2011. But, thanks to a whole sle ... More >>

Jimmie Vaughan's Got No Blues At All

Conan O'Brien, Meet Dallas (and Dirk Nowitzki)

Ryan Conlin ​A moment after fluffy-haired beat-box comic Reggie Watts left SMU's McFarlin Auditorium Thursday night, a video clip flickered briefly on the screen behind him: Walker, Texas Ranger -- welcome back, old friend. There was this Andy Richter intro, in which he warned: "Tonight, the part ... More >>

Jazz, Man

Doyle Bramhall, Bugs Henderson

Saturday, March 6,at the Granada Theater

Starting Wednesday, Dallas Police to Up the Number of Officers Looking for Drunk Drivers

​There's no place like home for the holidays -- right, Perry Como? The Dallas Police Department couldn't agree more: At this most wonderful time of the year, DPD once again launches its Home for the Holidays DWI initiative -- since, after all, "December, historically, is the highest month of t ... More >>

Arting Around

Fort Worth's best arts fest returns

Do You Wanna Go Shout "Hi!" to Woodrow Grad Steve Miller For Free?

Norah Jones Kicks Off New ACL Season

Selling Stevie Ray

Remember the Gemini!

Re: "Dallas Rag" and Other Stomps

Walker, Texas Ranger

From Dallas came the man who first plugged blues into an amp--and into popular culture

A New Texas Jam

Crossroads Guitar Festival celebrates six-strings and the men who make them famous

Rag 'Em Up

Ain't missin' this

Texas weakly

The Monthly's music issue strikes a bum note

South by South Austin

The Cornell Hurd Band is in it for the long haul

Soul to sell

Epic keeps raiding Stevie Ray Vaughan's vault, but when is enough enough?

Oh, brother

Charlie and Bruce Robison make their country family-style

Night & Day

September 3 - 9, 1998

Not fade away

Two garage-rock compilations raise The Esquires, Irving's psychedelic-rock greats, from the dead

Letters

The mind's ear

Jimmie Vaughan is two albums into a solo career he didn't necessarily want

Little boy blues

Andrew Baxter Jr. may be a mere child, but the 11-year-old guitarist is no novelty

Night & Day

May 21 - 27, 1998

Blues bothers

It ain't necessarily all good

Roadshows

Austin's loss

A new CD and a move to L.A. herald a career boost for Denny Freeman

Out Here

Roadshows

Pop mart

South by Southwest '97: Will guitars give up the ghost? Yes and no, but mostly no

The beautiful loser

Keith Ferguson keeps a loose grip on Fabulous past

The art of implication

Vince Bell's been dead once, and he's got the record to prove it

Bootlicking

Some of the best records are the ones never released

Surf and turf

Austin's Teisco Del Rey resurrects the lost art of the twang

Good rockin' last night

Dallas' forgotten Star Talent Records label got there before Sun's rise

Case dismissed

Judge tells the Nightcaps that ZZ Top aren't "copycats"