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Blues-rock
Blues rock is a hybrid musical genre combining bluesy improvisations over the 12-bar blues and extended boogie jams with rock and roll styles. The core of the blues rock sound is created by the electric guitar, piano, bass guitar and drum kit, with the electric guitar usually amplified through a...

 album
Album
An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...

 by the Vaughan Brothers, released on September 25, 1990. The album features the brethren guitarists and vocalists, Jimmie
Jimmie Vaughan
James Lawrence "Jimmie" Vaughan is an American blues rock guitarist and singer from Dallas, Texas, United States. He is the older brother of the late Stevie Ray Vaughan....

 and Stevie Ray
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Stephen Ray "Stevie Ray" Vaughan was an American electric blues guitarist and singer. He was the younger brother of Jimmie Vaughan and frontman for Double Trouble, a band that included bassist Tommy Shannon and drummer Chris Layton. Born in Dallas, Vaughan moved to Austin at the age of 17 and...

 Vaughan, in their only studio collaboration. In his early years, Stevie Ray Vaughan often remarked that he would like to do an album with his brother. He fulfilled that wish in his very last studio performance, which was released nearly a month after his death. The liner notes end with "Thanks Mama V. for letting us play."

Track listing

  1. "Hard to Be" (Stevie Ray Vaughan, Doyle Bramhall
    Doyle Bramhall
    Doyle Bramhall was an American singer-songwriter and drummer, closely associated with the music of Austin.-Biography:...

    ) – 4:43
  2. "White Boots" (Billy Swan
    Billy Swan
    Billy Lance Swan is an American songwriter and singer, best known for his 1974 single, "I Can Help".-Life:Swan was born in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. As a child, he learned drums, piano and guitar, and began writing songs...

    , Jim Leslie) – 3:50
  3. "D/FW" (Jimmie Vaughan) – 2:52
  4. "Good Texan" (J. Vaughan, Nile Rodgers
    Nile Rodgers
    Nile Gregory Rodgers is an American musician, producer, composer, arranger, and guitarist.-Biography:...

    ) – 4:22
  5. "Hillbillies from Outerspace" (J. Vaughan, S. R. Vaughan) – 3:42
  6. "Long Way from Home" (S. R. Vaughan, Bramhall) – 3:15
  7. "Tick Tock" (J. Vaughan, Rodgers, Jerry Lynn Williams) – 4:57
  8. "Telephone Song" (S. R. Vaughan, Bramhall) – 3:28
  9. "Baboom/Mama Said" (J. Vaughan, S. R. Vaughan, Denny Freeman
    Denny Freeman
    Denny Freeman is an American Texas and electric blues guitarist. Although he is primarily known as a guitar player, Freeman has also played piano and electric organ, both in concert and on various recordings...

    ) – 4:29
  10. "Brothers" (J. Vaughan, S. R. Vaughan) – 5:05

Personnel

  • Jimmie Vaughan
    Jimmie Vaughan
    James Lawrence "Jimmie" Vaughan is an American blues rock guitarist and singer from Dallas, Texas, United States. He is the older brother of the late Stevie Ray Vaughan....

     – Guitar, lap steel guitar, Vocals, Organ
  • Stevie Ray Vaughan
    Stevie Ray Vaughan
    Stephen Ray "Stevie Ray" Vaughan was an American electric blues guitarist and singer. He was the younger brother of Jimmie Vaughan and frontman for Double Trouble, a band that included bassist Tommy Shannon and drummer Chris Layton. Born in Dallas, Vaughan moved to Austin at the age of 17 and...

     – Guitar, Vocals
  • Al Berry – Bass
  • Larry Aberman – Drums
  • Doyle Bramhall
    Doyle Bramhall
    Doyle Bramhall was an American singer-songwriter and drummer, closely associated with the music of Austin.-Biography:...

     – Drums
  • Nile Rodgers
    Nile Rodgers
    Nile Gregory Rodgers is an American musician, producer, composer, arranger, and guitarist.-Biography:...

     – Guitar, Producer
  • Richard Hilton – Organ
  • Tawatha Agee – Vocals
  • Frank Simms
    Frank Simms
    Frank Simms is an American singer and voice-over artist known for providing the voices behind such iconic characters as the Kool-Aid Man, the Honeycomb Craver, the bug-eyed, fuzzy mascot of Honeycomb cereal, and the Geico ringtone. He is one of the founding members and songwriters of The Simms...

    – Vocals
  • George Simms – Vocals
  • Brenda White-King – Vocals
  • Curtis King Jr. – Vocals
  • Preston Hubbard – Upright bass
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