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Music CD - Jimmie Vaughan: The Essential Jimmie Vaughan
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Music CD: The Essential Jimmie Vaughan
Artist: Jimmie Vaughan
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Manufacturer: Sony
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1. Extra Jimmies
2. Tuff Enuff - Jimmie Vaughan, Wilson, Kim
3. DFW
4. Good Texan
5. Boom Bapa Boom
6. Don't Cha Know
7. Hey Yeah
8. Tilt a Whirl
9. Six Strings Down
10. Dengue Woman Blues
11. Cool Lookin' Woman
12. Lika a King - Jimmie Vaughan, Rodgers, N.
13. The Ironic Twist
14. Out There
15. I Like It Like That - Jimmie Vaughan, Kenner, Chris
16. Dirty Girl
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0696998642522
Format: Original recording remastered
Label: Sony
Manufacturer: Sony
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Sony
Release Date: 2003-09-30
Studio: Sony
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Summary: Classic Jimmie Vaughan
Comment: Jimmie is an expert on the Strat and Tele. His brand of music is almost nostalgic. This CD will not disappoint you. For whatever fame is worth... His younger brother Stevie Ray seemed to attract it. But it was Jimmie that taught Stevie how to play.
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Summary: More than a family resemblance
Comment: I had first heard Jimmie Vaughan on the album with his brother, and then with The Fabulous Thunderbirds. Jimmie Vaughan has a style like his brother's, but it's his own. And it's great stuff too.
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Summary: Missing some of the essentials
Comment: Not a bad overview of Jimmie Vaughan's career, but there's some fluff included here. Obviously, it's easier for Sony Music to reissue the stuff already in its back catalog, and as a result some of Vaughan's best work was left out. Let's get to the fluff first: "Tuff Enuff" doesn't belong on this disc. Yes, it's a T-birds song, and yes, it was their hit record, but it was penned by Kim Wilson and it does little to showcase Vaughan's talent. There are dozens of better T-birds songs that are more representative of Vaughan's guitar style. ("Extra Jimmies" was a great choice, but it's almost negated by the thudding rock dumbness of "Tuff Enuff.")
"Six Strings Down" (the live version from the SRV tribute album) and "Cool Lookin' Woman" (from the "Tin Cup" soundtrack) are other nonessentials that don't rank among Vaughan's best recordings. But since they're already in the Sony/Epic catalog, the compilation producer (Bob Irwin) threw them in as leftovers.
The meat of the collection comes from three albums produced by Nile Rodgers: "Family Style," "Strange Pleasure," and "Out There." The seven tracks from these albums, spanning eight years, show the impressive range of Vaughan's guitar playing, and also his dramatic improvement as a singer. An outtake or two from these sessions would have been the ultimate coup; alas, no dice. Then again, Producer Bob was smart enough to include "Dengue Woman Blues" (from the "Dusk Till Dawn" soundtrack), which might be the best slow blues that Vaughan ever recorded.
The one previously unreleased track is "I Like It Like That," from a 1998 Austin City Limits show. It's an interesting change of pace to hear Vaughan trying to sing in a more extroverted R&B style, but it's not particularly memorable.
And now for the missing essentials: Vaughan's notable appearances as a session guitarist. He's recorded with a long list of great musicians -- James Cotton, Albert Collins, John Lee Hooker, Duke Robillard, Lou Ann Barton, et al. Surely, Bob, ya could've convinced Sony to shell out for just one of these collaborations, couldn't you have? Not even James Cotton's "Straighten Up Baby"? (Bob Irwin is in fact a smart dude in the music industry, but he didn't do his homework on this one.) Is it possible to dish out a so-called "essential" scoop of Vaughan without the extra jimmies?
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Summary: Essential if you love blues guitar!!
Comment: This CD showcases the best of Jimmie Vaughn's talent and beautiful tone. I was never a big fan of the Fabulous Thunderbirds but Vaughn's solo work is excellent. Clean, clear concise and from the heart blues.
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Summary: Nice Job of Gathering Stray Tracks
Comment: Jimmie Vaughan was one of the founding members of the blues/rock band The Fabulous Thunderbirds. And while this collection kicks of with a couple of T-Bird tracks (the instrumental blues shuffle "Extra Jimmies" and their breakout hit "Tuff Enuff"), the focus is on Vaughan's solo career, which has seen the release of only three albums in the past 14 years since leaving the T-Birds.
There are a couple of tracks ("DFW," "Good Texan") from FAMILY STYLE recorded with his younger brother Stevie Ray Vaughan in 1990. Following Stevie's death it would be four years before Jimmie released his first solo album, STRANGE PLEASURE. This is perhaps Jimmie's strongest album to date. The four tracks from this album (5-8) all written or co-written by Jimmie wouldn't have been out of place on his recordings with the T-Birds. The biggest stylistic change on these tracks is the addition of Bill Willis's Hammond B-3, replacing Kim Wilson's harmonica, giving the recordings a more soulful quality. Tracks 12-14 are from Jimmie's 1998 follow-up OUT THERE. The closing track, "Dirty Girl," is the only song from his most recent album, 2001's DO YOU GET THE BLUES. [Recorded on the Artemis label after Jimmie left Epic.]
Rounding out the album is Jimmie's contribution to the 1996 tribute album to his brother, "Six Strings Down," a couple of soundtrack songs, "Dengue Woman Blues" (from DUSK TILL DAWN) and "Cool Lookin' Woman" (from TIN CUP), and perhaps the standout track is the previously unreleased live version of "I Like It Like That" from an appearance on Live On Austin City Limits. [Note: The CD booklet gives a songwriting credit to Chris Kenner. This is a mistake. Kenner DID write a song by that title, but THIS is the song written by The "5" Royales guitarist Lowman Pauling--in fact, Jimmie introduces the song crediting Pauling!]
While on the surface, it seems odd to compile a collection like this for an artist with so few solo albums to draw from, it's nice to have these songs all in one place. [Total running time - 71:55) HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
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