Vaughan Brothers - Family Style
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Free Music Review: I like it better every time I listen to it.
Hit: 5 Stars
This album is very up tempo- very Texas and very happy. Brothers the final showdown is SRV and JLV passing one guitar to eachother and going solo. That is an absolute blues song with a lot of albert king like licks and bends. This is the king of all good spirited music and at times is quite funny. Though Brothers is musically the only straight blues song- telephone song could easily be considered among Stevie and Jimmie's best work in blues/blues rock -solo or otherwise. It contains the most heavy guitar riffs on the album and some improvised mumbling at the end that made me laugh and smile-and it was covered by B.B. King on the srv tribute album. As well the song Long way from home was not a blues song but definetly had blues lyrics with certain image themes like ''crossroads.'' This song was covered by Buddy Guy on the same tribute album and the lyrics were set to blues music sounding completely natural. The album is mostly just good time blues music with some 4 great intrumentals. Tick Tock is a departure from the cd but it fit being a soul like song for world peace and love. It is not a long album but if you're a lover of hillbilly blues or uptempo music or either or both vaughan brothers it really is one of those ''must'' cds you here about. A good example of the lyrics would be '' I dig your chili you know it's true'' and '' People trying to tell me where it's at, but It doesn't really matter because I'm a million miles from nowhere and that's a long long way from home.'' It's just a great album full of Texas Pride and Joy.Free Music Review: A Nice Change of Pace
Hit: 4 Stars
Usually the music of Stevie Ray Vaughn has a dark sounding blues tone. On this release, with his brother Jimmy, the tone is alot more upbeat. Even some of the music shows some other influences like the soulful Tick Tock and the bouncy White Boots. There are four instrumental pieces(two have vocals effects) and each of them have a special freshness to them. Its a darn shame that Stevie had to die in that helicopter crash. Who knows what other great music would we have received. None the less this is a nice collaboration.Free Music Review: The First Rays of the New Stevie Ray
Hit: 5 Stars
After all those wasted years in which Stevie Ray had made music beyond the powers of most musicians but still not to his full potential, he returned to the things he loved: upbeat music and working with the brother he idolized his whole life. It's interesting that people have so many bad things to say about "Tick Tock", one of my all-time favorite Stevie Ray tunes. It seems that his fans were more interested in his macho stuff, which has its place, but weren't particulary taken with his gentler side. I don't think it's dated at all. I think in 25 years people will remember "Texas Flood" and "Tick Tock" as the bookends of his career. He didn't have to impress everybody in the world with his guitar playing anymore (though he still did, just because of his incredible ability). He could just play and sing what he liked while sitting next to the one musician whose opinion mattered to him more than anyone else's: Jimmie's. The album is a triumph. From the spoken opening of "Hard to Be" ("...roll 'n I'll just...feel something) to the last note of "Brothers" a new expansiveness to both of the brothers' musical vocabulary shines through. Of course, the tragedy of Stevie's untimely death colors our perception of this, his last album, but all in all this was the record he lived his whole life to make. This is a celebration of life, an album that never ceases to make me smile. And, at the end of the day, isn't that what all this is about?Free Music Review: I thought I had died and gone to heaven.....
Hit: 5 Stars
....when I first heard this CD. I bought it solely because of my love for all things Stevie Ray, as I knew very little about his brother's music. I have a hard time deciding whether I'm a bigger blues or country fan (depends on the day, I guess), so when I heard that Jimmie Vaughan borders on country, I figured I couldn't go wrong with this one...and I was right. You know how the first time you put in a new CD, if the first song doesn't get you right away, you feel that twinge of disappointment? Well, I was curious about this one, I didn't really know what to expect. But when the first notes hit me, I sat back with a smile and thought, "Aahh, this is gonna be GOOD". "Hard to Be" is fun, upbeat, but with those throaty Stevie Ray vocals that still grab me every time...I never get tired of em! "White Boots" has fun lyrics, and shows more of Jimmie's influence, but it's not "country" like any country you ever heard. There's enough SRV in it to prevent that!"D/FW" ....great guitar, need I say more? "Good Texan" is MY kinda song....dance-y beat, and how can you NOT like lyrics like "Do it to me, baby, like I know you could, so I can do it to ya, baby, like a Texan should"?
"Hillbillies from Outer Space is so smooth, so finger-snapping cool, you gotta wear shades to listen to it. "Long Way from Home"....Stevie Ray on lead vocals, guaranteed to raise your heart rate. Turn up the volume, and if you don't beat on the steering wheel, head for the nearest old folks' home....you're comatose.
"Tick Tock"? This one doesn't fit, at least in my opinion (think Four Tops, if you can believe that), but hey, that's what the "next" button is for, right? "Telephone Song" is what you've come to know and love if you're already a fan...pure SRV. The CD is rounded out with two more good ones, with "Brothers" being a fitting finale...that one-of-a-kind guitar that screams "Stevie Ray", and causes you to think for the hundredth time, "God, what a loss".
Free Music Review: a lot of talent all under one roof
Hit: 4 Stars
as one of the last things stevie ray vaughan recorded, this album makes itself a necessity. it is fascinating to hear him stretch out into a variety styles here, sort of like jimi hendrix did on "cry of love," his last recording. but this album is also necessary because of the presence of jimmie vaughan, a great, sometimes overlooked, texas r-n-b guitar slinger. this album covers the waterfront from r-n-b to funk to blues to rock-n-roll. highlights are "white boots," a gutsy rocker; "d/fw," a blazing instrumental, "hillbillies from outer space," a nod to booker t. & the mg's; and the closing "brothers," a great blues jam. the album reveals both vaughans' respective styles, giving ample room for jimmie's finger-picking and stevie's wails. it also gives a nice look at all the different styles that have been amalgamated in the lone star state as the sounds of chicago, new orleans, and memphis have drifted to the southwest. this is a fine album. now the gripes, which are minor. i know srv landed a hit single with "tick tock," but now it already sounds dated. also, having seen both peformers live, the album subdues the fire both men have (had) in person, which is just part of a studio recording, i guess. well worth the price of admission...