Stevie Ray Vaughan And Double Trouble’s Texas Flood Inducted 2021 Grammy’s
The perfect combination of raw power, unmeasurable control, mutual respect and honed skill and a lifetime’s worth of playing live clubs around Texas came together after some assistance from John Hammond and Jackson Brown (who lent Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble his studio) to launch Texas Flood – their first album. Single handedly SRV […]
Texas Flood: The Inside Story Of Stevie Ray Vaughan
I can’t believe it was nearly 29-years ago that marks the untimely death of master blues guitarist (and great human being) Stevie Ray Vaughan’s death. A few weeks ahead of that unsettling anniversary comes the official release of the long anticipated “Inside Story” – “Texas Flood: The Inside Story of Stevie Ray Vaughan” which is […]
Texas Blues – Albert Collins, Jimmie Vaughan, Lightning Hopkins
One of my favorite clips ever, take a look at the concentration and respect shown on Albert Collins and Jimmie Vaughan’s face as they watch one of the early Texas Blues masters Lightning Hopkins. There are obviously many varieties of the blues, as you hear Jimmie talk about near the end of the clip – […]
1984 Jimmie Vaughan Interview – Raw
Cool “raw” interview with Jimmie Vaughan, you get to see a “behind the scenes” of filming an interview. Some great highlights from the interview: How The Fabulous T-Birds got their start as the Antone’s house band where they backed the who’s who of blues singers Why they moved down from Dallas to Austin (hippie scene, […]
Play What You Want To Hear
Wow man, I was so impressed by this Jimmie Vaughan interview, mainly because he goes through the thought process of how he (and how other great blues guitar players like BB, Freddie King, Eric Clapton and Gatemouth Brown) developed their own style. It’s one thing to learn the guitar, another to be able to play […]
T-Bone Walker, Blues Guitar And The I-II-IV-V
[mc src=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFqK6PBq-hA&feature=results_main&playnext=1&list=PL37DEC2F0013CE888″ type=”youtube”]T-Bone Walker[/mc]I’ve been in a mood for going back and learning some blues guitar strategies, techniques and styles from the greats – was listening to this video of T-Bone Walker playing at the “Jazz at the Philharmonic” – the first song I noticed the often used example of T-Bone changing up the standard […]
Texas Blues Guitar – Johnny Winter – Roots
I still remember fondly one of my very first concerts back in the mid 1990’s saw Johnny Winter play the National Arts Center Theatre here in Ottawa…a venue typically reserved for proper theatre goers rather than loud, heavy drinking bikers, youth and blues revellers – but that night turned out to be magic. It was […]