Jimmie Vaughan & Tilt-a-Whirl Band

One Liner:  Stevie Ray's big brother laying down classic blues guitar action

Wikipedia Genre: Electric blues, blues rock, Texas blues, jazz blues

Home: Austin!

Poster Position: 4 (18) 
Weekend Two Only.
Friday.

Thoughts:  I mean, we all know Jimmie Vaughan.  The older brother to Stevie Ray, and a great blues guitarist in his own right.  When I was in junior high or high school I loved their duo album called Family Style.  "Hard to Be" was classic and the whole album was damn fun.  But that album was released just after Stevie Ray's death, so there was never a follow-up.

By himself, he has a nice little catalog of bluesy, guitar-forward tunes.  Including one called "Tilt A Whirl" on his solo debut in 1994.  His top track in his solo stuff is called "Dengue Woman Blues," and it sounds just like that title.  9.9 million streams.

Dusk til Dawn.  His solo stuff hews to the very traditional sound of classic southern blues rock - but he does a great job with it.  

Jimmie was born in Dallas in 1951, and after graduating from high school there he moved to Austin in the '60s to get into the music scene.  He apparently got to open for Jimi Hendrix in Fort Worth in 1969, so that's pretty freaking cool.  One article I read said that after a football injury, a family friend gave him a guitar to pass the time and he discovered that he was good at it.  He passed the love on down to his little brother.

But the big hits you'll remember him on are those from the Fabulous Thunderbirds - like "Tuff Enuff."

Hilarious video.  "I need some models who will act like they are doing blue collar manual labor, but really just need to do Blue Steel over and over again.  Except later, I need one to be a hooker at a food truck.  Perfecto!"  But Jimmie is just the guitar hero there, that is a different dude singing.  After his brother died, he left the T-Birds and did his solo thing.

But this (maybe?) appears to be something different than his solo stuff.  On Spotify, a search for this band only brings up one song, a seven minute Lou Ann Barton bluesy burner called "Shake a Hand," with 5,237 streams.  They are just sorta featured on the track.  Jimmie never sings.  Wikipedia has nothing about this band.  Just about everything I find written "about" the band is just superlatives about Jimmies career.  So, not sure what the difference is here between the solo action and this band, but I think you can assume you will hear some classic blues covers and maybe a few originals, sung and played by one of the best to ever do it.  Here's a hella-bad live video from 2022.

Looks like the show will be him presiding over the guitar in the middle of the stage while a band of blues dudes lays down a track behind him.  Probably pretty solid!