Jimmie Vaughan and The Tilt-a-Whirl Band
For four-time Grammy winner Jimmie Vaughan, country music and the blues all come down to one thing. “When I talk about country and blues, they’re the same thing,” he said. “It’s Muddy Waters and Hank Williams, Webb Pierce and Jimmy Reed. When I was a kid, I didn’t understand the difference. Everybody was always asking me, ‘Why do you want to play blues? Why don’t you play country?’ But I would listen to the country guys and they’d be doing a Jimmy Reed song. They’re playing the same lick. And Ray Charles, Little Milton, Guitar Junior, Lonnie Brooks, B. B. King - they all did country songs. Is Bob Wills country, blues or jazz? The answer is, it’s American music.” Jimmie Vaughan fell in love with the blues while listening to it on a Black radio station in Dallas. When he first heard songs like Phil Upchurch’s “You Can’t Sit Down” and B.B. King’s many hit songs in the early 1960s, he knew he had found his music.
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