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Music CD - Jimmie Vaughan: Strange Pleasure
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Music CD: Strange Pleasure
Artist: Jimmie Vaughan
List Price: $9.98
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Manufacturer: Sony
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1. Boom-Bapa-Boom - Jimmie Vaughan, Vaughan, Jimmie
2. Don't Cha Know - Jimmie Vaughan, Vaughan, Jimmie
3. Hey-Yeah - Jimmie Vaughan, Ray, Paul
4. Flamenco Dancer - Jimmie Vaughan, Ray, Paul
5. (Everybody's Got) Sweet Soul Vibe - Jimmie Vaughan, Rodgers, Nile
6. Tilt-A-Whirl - Jimmie Vaughan, Vaughan, Jimmie
7. Six Strings Down - Jimmie Vaughan, Kolb, Eric
8. Just Like Putty - Jimmie Vaughan, Ray, Paul
9. Two Wings - Jimmie Vaughan, Rebennack, Mac
10. Love the World - Jimmie Vaughan, Rebennack, Mac
11. Strange Pleasure (Modern Backporch Duende) - Jimmie Vaughan, Vaughan, Jimmie
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0074645720227
Label: Sony
Manufacturer: Sony
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Sony
Release Date: 1994-04-12
Studio: Sony
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Summary: beauty, simplicity and six strings
Comment: the absence and pain can lead to the beauty ...this can be felt through this songs ...sweet soul vibe, tilt a whirl, six strings down...strange pleasure...threading memories with blues and soul...deep respect, gentle joy emerge from the music spilled here...please ... listen it... become a gift to yourself!!!
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Summary: Legendary Jimmie Vaughn
Comment: I have been a Jimmie Vaughn fan since his Fabulous Thunderbirds days. Great, soulful Texas vocals with guitar work that is consistently superb. A must have for your blues collection.
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Summary: Kick-ass record from Jimmie Lee Vaughan!
Comment: This is Jimmie Vaughan's first solo record, and it was released four years after brother Stevie's tragic death. Here he gives us a great slab of electric blues. Of course, his laid-back jam-back-at-the-house kind of a feel is much different than Stevie's impassioned, lets-go-kick-ass style. However, Jimmie and Stevie are similar in the fact that they both make music that goes down nice and easy. Even when Stevie plays a loud, piercing solo it still is so fluid and so perfectly played that it is easy on the ears. I like so call this the "Vaughan sound". Just very Texas blues. Jimmie also has that instantly recognizable tone. Everyone knows who it is when they hear it. Okay, now back to the record. Jimmie plays superbly on this cd. He rocks it up with Boom-Bapa-Boom, which was featured in Major League II, Don't Cha Know, and Hey Yeah. He also slows it down a little bit with songs like Sweet Soul Vibe. And then there is the highlight of the disc, Six Strings Down, his tribute to Stevie. With just an accoustic guitar and a couple of backup singers, he gives the best tribute to Stevie that anyone could. The first time I heard it, I cried. Because you could tell from listening to him that he was dealing with the pain very well but he still was hurting inside. This is one of the best blues songs ever put to tape.
Overall, this is Jimmie's best cd so far. I don't personally think he will ever take over the world with his music, because he doesn't draw attention to himself. But that doesn't stop him. He is as big a legend to me as Stevie is. Not just because he is Stevie's brother, but because he is a fantastic guitar player, and one of the most underrated guitar players of all-time. It's a damn shame. And another thing, Jimmie is also a great singer for the music he does. He hardly gets any credit for that, so I am giving him that now. I am glad that Stevie got you to sing on Family Style, for that was the start of something great. Stevie is my all-time favorite, but if anyone says that Jimmie isn't very good, they should be shot. Rock on, JLV!
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Summary: The work of a dedicated individualist.
Comment: Jimmie Vaughan is great, period. Forget any negative comparisons to brother Stevie, Jimmie's first solo album is the polar opposite of Stevie's fire and brimstone blues style. Soulfull, laid back, funny and fun, thats it, yeah.. Jimmie eschews any of his Fabulous Thunderbirds guitarisms and finds warm, mellow grooves to make his own. Boom Bapa Boom and Don't Cha Know have that Jimmy Reed medium shuffle he uses so much, but are infused with much more humaness and warmth than on any T-Birds album. Jimmie's average-man-on-the-streets kind of voice and his off-kilter lyrical style take the listener on a trip to some exotic but somehow familar place. Is it possible to be happy and have the blues at the same time? Maybe the answer is in Don't Cha Know. Two Wings is a quirky blueprint of the happy/sad perspective Jimmie brings. Somehow a little more than just melancholy... The title track, Strange Pleasure, is an all too short acoustic blues instrumental with a hauntingly abstract quality...a lonely city street on a rainy night...by Kandinsky? Tilt a Whirl is another pleasant instrumental in a lounge jazz kind of vein. Jimmie's homage to lost brother Stevie is but one of the heartfelt songs on this release. "Three blind boys" backup singers (a J. Vaughan quote), Hammond B3 organ, Flamenco guitars and Jimmie's telepathic blues guitar add up to....picture a New York Tiki lounge on blues night in 1965...maybe I ramble. Pick this CD up and transport yourself.
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Summary: Hugely Underated CD Don't think about it...just buy it!!!
Comment: This CD, and the tour that resulted from it, took me by surprise.
Jimmie Vaughan's band is amazingly tight, his vocals are much better than expected. The songs are from a far better musical era. They are reminiscent of something that came from Memphis in the 60's. He uses no bass player. The organist uses bass pedals to round out the bottom of the sound. Austin guitar legend Denny Freeman plays both rhythm guitar & piano and is equally deft at either instrument. The doo wop singers he brought out on tour (after they blew him away in the studio)were a great compliment to his sound. I loved this CD. A tip for guitar players trying to cop his sound: Many people have written in articles that he has gone to an open tuning, with a capo. I was able to talk with him and found that he tunes conventionally, but uses the capo on the proper fret for the key of the song he is playing. This allows him to pull off the strings from any position to get a note which is in key with the song. It is like playing every song in the key of E. This makes his sliding/pulloff licks work. He was not using an open tuning as many people believe. Anyway, buy the CD and good luck playing his chops. Remember, SRV looked up to him. That is a reccomendation.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Jimmie Vaughan's first solo album includes a subdued country-gospel-blues eulogy for his late brother Stevie Ray in the form of "Six Strings Down," written by Art and Cyril Neville. The bulk of the recording, though, comes in the form of the relentless, Texas-blues rave-ups that made Jimmie the solid rock at the base of the Fabulous Thunderbirds. Dr. John gives a New Orleans shuffle to two songs he cowrote with Jimmie, but more typical is the first single, "Boom-Bapa-Boom," which boasts a hypnotic rhythm perfectly described by its title. Jimmie's refusal to play an unnecessary note makes his grooves irresistible. --Rickey Wright
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