Texas Roots

Texas Roots

ASIN: B00004RG84

Track Listings

1. Texas Roots

2. You Can Bet Your Boots

3. Trying Hard to Make It All Make Sense

4. You Can't Miss It

5. The Cowboy and the Lord

6. Doing Ft. Worth in Style

7. Country Trains

8. Texas Skies

9. When You've Cried All You Can Cry

10. Honky-Tonk Tradition

11. From Ring Around the Rosey to Rings Around Our Fingers

12. A Lotta Bull

13. On the Texas Side of Arkansas

14. I'll Love You as Long as Texas Is Big

Editorial Reviews
Pete Smith of Country Music Roundup, Britain's number one country-music newspaper; October, 1999
Terry Smith, who has had his songs covered by just about everyone from Roy Acuff to Alison Krauss and who wrote the now legendary "Far-Side Banks of Jordan," has discovered Texas Roots for his latest Rhinestone Rooster recording. As you would expect, Terry wrote all fourteen selections, songs that have the spirit of Ernest Tubb and which, if they had been written thirty years ago, would all have been hits for Ernest....

Product Description
Singer/Songwriter Terry Smith explores his Texas musical heritage on his new CD, Texas Roots. The fourteen self-penned songs making up this collection include not only western swing and Texas honky-tonk music, but ballads and tongue-in-cheek novelty songs as well, all tied together by a Texas theme. Recorded in Nashville, using some of Music City's top studio musicians, Texas Roots was produced by Bill Johnson, steel guitar player for Marty Robbins for fourteen years. If you enjoy real, traditional country music, the songs on Texas Roots will touch your heart, tickle your funny one, and have you patting your foot.

Texas Roots

Tracks:

Who Were You Thinkin' Of
(Hey Baby) Que Paso
Wasted Days And Wasted Nights
Guacamole
La Mucura
Adios Mexico
Mentiras
Is Anybody Goin' To San Antone
A Mover El Bote
Una Mas Cerveza
Soy De San Luis

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Less a band than the musical equivalent of a Tex-Mex combo platter, the Texas Tornados spotlight the complementary tastes of their four veteran members. This compilation extends from roadhouse rockers by the Sir Douglas Quintet's Doug Sahm ("Who Were You Thinkin' Of," "Adios Mexico") to novelty numbers from his quintet keyboardist Augie Meyers ("Que Paso," "Guacamole") to country and traditional Mexican balladry from Freddy Fender ("Wasted Days and Wasted Nights," "Mentiras"). The accordion virtuosity of Flaco Jimenez adds spice throughout. Since 11 cuts can barely sample the wide range of the group's individual talents, the collection serves as a better introduction than retrospective summation. --Don McLeese

Customer Reviews:

Hard to find locally........2007-05-14

I live in a small town and that makes it hard to find just what I am looking for. Here I got the CD I wanted, at a great price. Shipping was fast.

Viva la Tornados.......2007-01-09

Great CD w/ all the hits. It's wonderful when "legends" come together to combine their talent.

I miss Freddy.

If you think you will like this....YOU WILL!.......2005-08-22

Like fun music? Have ecletic tastes? Like to sing along in the car by yourself? Order this baby and enjoy. Different styles amongst the four tornados make this a surprising listen, if not totally cohesive. Who cares! Have "una cerveza", enjoy, and then go buy more of their cd's.

Great introduction to the band.......2002-05-31

TEXAS TORNADOS are a TEX-MEX supergroup that I can remember playing in the jukebox when hanging at the local bars back home. Their songs are fun, lively and will get you dancing. GUACAMOLE, HEY BABY QUE PASO, are two songs that when you start listening to the lyrics will just make you bust out laughing and having a good all time. WASTED DAYS AND WASTED NIGHTS is another great song that I really enjoy. This album is just full of great songs from a band that knows how to utilize all of their collective talents and combine them together. So go out get this album and be ready to hear some good music. After this, you will want to hear more of their music and get the rest of their albums.

big storm from Texas.......2002-02-20

The Tornados are GREAT. Treasure this CD, most likely it is the last of them all together with Flaco Himenez. Fabulous Tex-Mex.

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Legendary Jimmie Vaughn
Kick-ass record from Jimmie Lee Vaughan!
The work of a dedicated individualist.
Hugely Underated CD Don't think about it...just buy it!!!
Just for being a great cd

Strange Pleasure
Jimmie Vaughan
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ASIN: B00000298D
Release Date: 1994-04-12

Tracks:

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(Everybody's Got) Sweet Soul Vibe
Tilt A Whirl
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Just Like Putty
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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

Customer Reviews:

Legendary Jimmie Vaughn.......2007-05-25

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.

Kick-ass record from Jimmie Lee Vaughan!.......2004-08-04

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!

The work of a dedicated individualist........2002-05-20

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.

Hugely Underated CD Don't think about it...just buy it!!!.......2001-10-21

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.

Just for being a great cd.......2001-02-06

it's sweet soul vibe not street, just to correct the songlist up there. Anyway I just want to say that there is only one straight blues song here which is six strings down a tribute to his late brother and blues idols. It is really taking the old rock and roll sound and mixing in some soul/r and b vibe around it. It's where old rock and roll would have gone if the sound stayed the same. The whole album is great and rene martinez-Art Neville and Dr. John all make appearances. It's a great mix and sound but once again it is NOT a blues album. Just mostly soft spoken well crafted and mostly happy music.

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RICK SHAQ GOLDSTEIN SAYS: "THE LORD SAYETH:" "DO NOT USE YOUR BROTHER'S NAME IN VAIN!"
Classy Blues Album...
It needs to be settled into.
Smokin'
The magic returns!

Do You Get the Blues?
Jimmie Vaughan
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ASIN: B00005NZKA
Release Date: 2001-09-11

Tracks:

Dirty Girl
Out Of The Shadows
The Deep End
Power Of Love
Without You
Let Me In
Don't Let The Sun Set
Robbin' Me Blind
Slow Dance Blues
In The Middle Of The Night
Planet Bongo

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Jimmie Vaughan is a master of mood, but not ostentatiously so; he's too slick for that. You think you're getting a slab of solid electric blues with Do You Get the Blues?--and as a matter of fact, you are--but this particular slab cuts all the way to the bone. It begins innocuously enough, with a relaxed instrumental piece set to a shuffle beat, until you realize the track's called "Dirty Girl." Then things slow down even more for "Out of the Shadows," and this one looks like a downer, but no, Vaughan addresses an upbeat subject here. Likewise, "Off the Deep End" ambles along amiably enough, but there's a current of tension underpinning the song, until we reach the line "And the water's fine." Here, the music relaxes, mirroring the lyrics. And so on, through a cover of "Power of Love" (with killer vocals from fellow Texan Lou Ann Barton), so that when "Without You" suits music to sentiment, it has even more impact. This subtlety is Vaughan's mastery at work. He does what you don't expect, contrasting music with subject matter, avoiding musical clichés like the plague, and doing all of it so offhandedly that you never realize what he's up to. Hence the flute on "Don't Let the Sun Set" is moving, as opposed to cheesy, while "In the Middle of the Night" has a sexy, swinging beat and heartbroken lyrics. True, Vaughan is a better musician than he is a lyricist, but he's good enough at the former that few are likely to complain. --Genevieve Williams

Customer Reviews:

RICK SHAQ GOLDSTEIN SAYS: "THE LORD SAYETH:" "DO NOT USE YOUR BROTHER'S NAME IN VAIN!".......2007-02-03

I got this CD 5 years ago, so before I wrote this review, I played it again, to make sure it was as bad as I had remembered. I don't know how you can call this blues. I would call it mopey, lethargic, boring, and completely without any soul. There's no music, that stirs anything, in your imagination. There aren't even any "short bursts or strings" worth remembering. In addition to a lack of any musical virtuosity, no one on this earth, ever accused Jimmie of having a great voice.

Classy Blues Album..........2006-04-06

..From the man they should call slow hand. This is a great blues album from front to back with some guest stars that keep things interesting. One of those rare blues albums to make successful use of the organ. Jimmie guitar playing style is much different then his brother (R.I.P.) and solo work is squaring in the blues genre vs. the F.T-Birds work. This is one of Jimmie's best efforts and one of the great new blues albums of the past few years. If you like the blues, you will like this CD.

It needs to be settled into........2004-07-22

The difference between JV and other guitar heroes is that he does not up the intensity as time goes by; he finds his groove and works it forever. If you're a rave-up fan, it'll never come, but if you settle in with the band, you'll get more and more out of it as the set unfolds. Still, only four stars; JV's 'tight' style only goes so far.

Smokin'.......2003-09-14

Jimmie Vaughan literally smokes on this Grammy-nominated set from 2001. The entire CD is great with 4 tracks hitting "classic" status for me. The opener instrumental "Dirty Girl" smokes with a classic Chicago blues feel; penned by organist Bill Willis, his Hammond B-3 blazes through the track. On "Power of Love" Lou Ann Barton's churning vocal blows through Jimmie's guitar like a cyclone making this track one that smokes with the best classic tracks. On "Let Me In" Jimmie creates a throbbing track with a deep groove that mesmerizes. Johnny Wilson's "In the Middle of the Night" has Lou Ann Barton coming back for another guest vocal that smokes from beginning to end. The other tracks are also great such as "Don't Let the Sun Set" with its extended instrumental opening before Jimmie lays down some impassioned vocals, "Are you just going to stand there and watch me go?" "Do You Get the Blues?" is another strong outing for Jimmie Vaughan, some of the hottest grooves you'll hear. Enjoy!

The magic returns!.......2003-03-01

Jimmie's magic touch is back! You know, the touch. The style of those early Fab T-Bird albums that made you sigh in elation. The touch that turned Stevie Ray (you may remember him, the Double Trouble guy) into a master player. Whatever it is that he lost in a sea of boring, over commercial, T-Bird albums or his sub-par solo albums, he got back with a vengeance on this Grammy-winning blues classic.

So what is it that grabs you about this album? A stripped back production (reminiscent of the T-Bird's Girls Go Wild), less attention on outside instruments and more on what you buy a JV album for (that powerful guitar), the duets with fellow hot Texan Lou Ann Barton (as much soul as Janis Joplin, she has), and a unique sound just as powerful as brother Stevie. Though while Stevie leaned towards the on-edge, caffeinated, power blues of Buddy Guy and Hendrix, Jimmie goes for a more laid back feel, relying on jazz/R&B arrangements (use of flute on Don't Let the Sun Set and Planet Bongo) and loose bar band blues (the sparse, clublike production), ala Guitar Watson and T-Bone Walker. Too add, Jimmie has a voice that perfectly compliments it, when his guitar isn't doing the talking. He never seems to be taking the music very seriously, just kicking back and taking it easy. (For some of the newbies to the blues, think Norah Jones.) And really, don't we need that?

Tracks:

Soy De San Luis
A Man Can Cry
(Hey Baby) Que Paso
Laredo Rose
Ay Te Dejo En San Antonio
Cancion Mixteca
Dinero
Mathilda
Adios Mexico
She Never Spoke Spanish To Me
Only One
Mendocino
Wasted Days and Wasted Nights
Baby What Do You Want Me To Do
If That's What You're Thinking
Who Were You Thinkin' Of
Before The Next Teardrop Falls
She's About A Mover
96 Tears

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As the ebullient ringleader of this all-star Lone Star quartet, Doug Sahm tells this 1990 Austin City Limits crowd that "it's rock and roll conjunto time!" Such a description barely hints at the raucous vitality of the band's bilingual, Tex-Mex border music. The set (also available on DVD) finds Freddy Fender resurrecting his country smashes "Wasted Days and Wasted Nights" and "Before the Next Teardrop Falls," while the tremulous vocals of some of his earlier, regional hits suggest that he is to Tejano music what Aaron Neville is to New Orleans soul. Conjunto accordion kingpin Flaco Jimenez provides rollicking instrumental accents throughout, while singing with Fender on some of the Spanish-language material. From the rock and roll side, Sahm and keyboardist Augie Meyers reprise their hits from the Sir Douglas Quintet's 1960s heyday, with "She's About a Mover" and "Mendocino" steeped in the same musical roots they share with Fender and Jimenez. Such raucous, festive interplay plainly enjoys a home-field advantage in Austin, where the performance finds the foursome hailed as conquering heroes. (The release serves as a memorial to Sahm, who died in 1999 and to whom the album is dedicated.) --Don McLeese

Album Description

The Texas Tormadoes' amazing 1990 Austin City Limits performance is now available on DVD., Featuring Doug Sahm, Freddy Fender, Augie Meyers and Flaco Jimenez, the Texas Tornadoes Live From Austin, Texas features songs that were not included in the original broadcast. Includes the classic songs "Wasted Days and Wasted Nights", "She's About A Mover" and "Before The Next Teardrop Falls".

Customer Reviews:

Tex-Mex At it's Best !!.......2007-03-27

This is my all time favorite "cheer-me-up" album. As soon as the music starts, I just start smiling. I love the enthusiasm and the great talent that is displayed. The mingling of voices from both north and south of the border is a tribute to our southern society, showing that we all can and do get along wonderfully when we put our minds to it.

Impossible to find something better than this!!.......2006-12-30

I already wrote a review on this incredible musical event after watching
the show on DVD so my opinion on the CD version cannot be different.
The only sad thing about this is that both Doug and Freddy are not with
us anymore but we have their wonderful 1990 Austin Texas concert and
we can either listen to it or watch the incredible musical abilities
of this foursome. The best Conjunto Tex-Mex rock & roll gathering ever!!!

Paris, Texas: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

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Paris, Texas (the movie)
Elemental and essential.
In my top 5
Soundtrack for a sparse summer
Masterpiece

Paris, Texas: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Ry Cooder
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ASIN: B000002L7L
Release Date: 1990-10-25

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Paris, Texas
Brothers
Nothing Out There
Cancion Mixteca - Harry Dean Stanton
No Safety Zone
Houston In Two Seconds
She`s Leaving The Bank
On The Couch
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Ry Cooder has done some of the best soundtracks in the last 20 years or so (I wouldn't live without The Long Riders or the two-disc Music By Ry Cooder compilation, either)--most of them superior to the movies. (Sorry about that, Walter Hill--but it's true.) His lonesome, steel-guitar music for Wim Wenders' Paris, Texas is one of those cases where the movie and its music are equally great. I can't imagine one without the other. Every time I hear Cooder's opening theme, I see those wide western spaces and Travis (Harry Dean Stanton) wandering through them; and every time I see a still from the movie, I can hear Cooder's music playing in my head. --Jim Emerson

Customer Reviews:

Paris, Texas (the movie).......2006-08-23

Who doesn't like Ry Cooder. His music is just so individual, like nothing else. (Good to listen to when you're spaced out). Or just listening to the soothing relaxing southern twang of his guitar just sends you to another plane. What I see when I hear this music is the wide open spaces and desserted highways on a hot hot summer's day somewhere in the middle of Texas. It just wants to make you chill out! It's so cool.

Elemental and essential........2006-06-15

There are two types of soundtracks, and this is the more significant kind. The first type gives you a selection of tracks in no way related but for the taste and selection of a movie maker. I prefer my own compilations usually, but there are some good ones, usually from films no one really saw like Sleep With the Fishes. The other kind are inspired by images and landscapes no longer seen, but felt in the songs that came from them. They open the same spaces within the listener, but these are no longer owned by the movie maker, actors and their characters; some story in a film. It's not about the film at all anymore. It's music that doesn't demand you attention in the three-or-so minute grab of a regular song. This is music that you put in the background as you look to open your soul and create something yourself. And it's only found in this second type of soundtrack. There's the whole genre of New Age music which tries to do the same thing, though rarely achieves it with such deft subtlety. If you liked this one, listen to Monster's Ball, though skip the first five songs.

In my top 5.......2005-04-03

Paris Texas and Wings of Desire - 2 of my favorite movies. I LOVE them. Beyond Wenders theme of love (in my mind)....is space. Space to think. And the music reflects this beautifully. It is short - I simply play it over and over!! And the dialogue is the point.....haunting, honest and just beautiful. How Travis knows just what the right thing to do is is nothing short of a miracle to me. His love is pure. Yes we all made lots of mistakes in our youth. He learned. Can't wait to see Wenders other movies.

Soundtrack for a sparse summer.......2002-04-11

I listened to this album (LP, at the time) ceaselessly during the summer of 1987. I lived in a sparsely furnished apartment, painted stark white, with my first and only platonic male roommate.
When I woke up, the album went on. The sun shone brightly through our south and east windows. The ominous, pensive sounds generated by Ry Cooder were the perfect accompaniment to my barely post-adolescent A.M. ponderings.
This album makes an unforgettable background to a life. The movie was good, if melodramatic. The monologue on the soundtrack that people are complaining about is the explanation of the whole movie. It is important. We have CD players so we can program the tracks we don't want to hear out of our listening experience. But I recommend letting the monologue track stay. Let it meander through your head. Imagine the scenes and the logic Stanton describes. Then apply the music to the words and you will see why they are equally deserving of space on the disc.

Masterpiece.......2001-11-13

Ry Cooder drop-tunes his guitar and creates an incredible piece of film music. The title theme, Dark Was The Night are haunting and beautiful. But the real underrated treasure on this soundtrack is "She's Leaving The Bank." Creative, atmospheric and brilliant.

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You can't lose...
This music will live forever
Everybody loves this music!
pure san antonio cantina music, i love it
This album is great fun.

Texas Tornados
Texas Tornados
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ASIN: B000002LLS
Release Date: 1990-07-17

Tracks:

Who Were You Thinkin' Of
(Hey Baby) Que Paso
Laredo Rose
A Man Can Cry
Soy De San Luis
Adios Mexico
If That's What You're Thinking
She Never Spoke Spanish To Me
Dinero
Baby! Heaven Sent Me You

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At an age when most performers of their stature are either fading fast or priming for the oldies circuit, Doug Sahm, Freddie Fender, Flaco Jimenez, and Auggie Meyers regrouped and made some of the rawest, swingingest, and most memorable music of their careers. Each member puts a slightly different spin on the Tex-Mex sound and the results blaze back and forth across the boundaries of spicy rock & roll ("Adios Mexico"), Tejano ("Who Were You Thinking Of"), and honky-tonk weepers ("A Man Can Cry"). You don't have to be familiar with Mexican music or the Spanish language to love this album: Its soul knows no borders and rocks right over any resistance. --Roy Francis Kasten

Customer Reviews:

You can't lose..........2000-10-18

The Texas Tornados are like the reverse of the old big-box-containing-a-smaller-box-containg-a-smaller-box joke that your sister pulled on you when you opened your Christmas present. The band presents you with a brightly-colored package (graphically and musically) that seems somewhat modest at first but over time grows into a dear treasure. The songs unashamedly pluck at all the heartstrings with no apologies and you have to laugh at their brazen chutzpah. The musicians' credentials are voluminous and undeniable. The melding of Sahm-Meyers, Fender and Jimenez is a classic case of the whole being more that the sum of the parts. This Tex-Mex album is the AM-radio soundtrack for a sunny spring day driving south on Interstate 25 with the top down and a couple of shots of tequila just starting to warm your gut. Only the most pretentious or dour of listeners will fail to get a spiritual lift from this little gem. Don't cheat yourself-add Texas Tornados to your road collection.

This music will live forever.......2000-06-20

With the caliber of musicians in this band this music is destined to live forever. How will any other group hope to mach the diversity of the late Doug Sahms, from down and dirty blues to the twangy pedal steel guitar, this home grown Texas superstar will shine forever. This collection of various Tornado tunes highlights well the sound and soul of the TEXAS TORNADOS.

Everybody loves this music!.......1999-05-27

This is always a favorite to share with others on road trips. Everybody loves to sing along! The songs are sad but they make you feel so happy. Buy this album. I've had to replace it a couple of times. Can't say that about too many other items in my music collection. Have purchased it as a gift several times too for the people who've come to love it on camping trips.

pure san antonio cantina music, i love it.......1999-03-27

you must buy this if you like great texas musi

This album is great fun........1998-11-15

I bought this album on a whim and loved it. When I'm sitting in traffic I put it on and find myself belting out the songs at the top of my longs. Buy this album, it is pure fun.

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Great CD
Superb Effort - Border Music
4 Aces is a wining hand indeed!
A Winning Hand
Excellent. Give it a whirl.

4 Aces
Texas Tornados
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Live from Austin, TX

ASIN: B000002N5U
Release Date: 1996-07-09

Tracks:

Little Bit Is Better Than Nada
Amor De Mi Vida
In My Mind
4 Aces
My Cruel Pain
Tell Me
Ta Bueno Compadre (It's OK Friend)
The Gardens
Rosalita
Clinging To You
Mi Morenita
The One I Love The Most

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Great CD.......2007-02-20

A great collection of the Texas Tornados. You can't go wrong, every song is fabulous. Good CD to play after/during a bbq.

Superb Effort - Border Music.......2005-06-10

I love the synergy in the Texas Tornados -- for me, it's the best work of Freddy Fender and also a fine career capstone for the durable Doug Sahm. I guess you'd call this "Tex-Mex" but I think of it as "Border Music." It borders on the USA and Mexico, it borders on country, folk, and rock. There is great musicianship here, even though it's a completely casual sound. These guys have a feel for the music and it flows like water. In most of the tunes, the accordian drives the music, and you can sense the culture. If I am looking for anything to which this music might be compared, it's the folk side of Los Lobos. Great stuff.

4 Aces is a wining hand indeed!.......2000-06-20

This has to be the quintisential Tornado recording, all members of the group seem to be in tip top form, performing the fervor of teens, these "oldtimers" can still show their stuff!

A Winning Hand.......1999-06-25

These "Four Aces" may be grandfathers, but they've still got it all. From the music one hears their playfulness, their emotions, their mastery of the music, and their sensuality. Thanks, hombres, for the happy feelings I get when I listen. Don't you just love those men from Texas

Excellent. Give it a whirl........1998-07-21

These guys are masters, and they're having fun.

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Austin City Limits Tribute recorded
RICK SHAQ GOLDSTEIN SAYS: "A TRIBUTE AN SRV LOVER LIKE SHAQ, SAYS THANK YOU FOR!"
An exception to the rule
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What A Tribute To The King Of Blues!

A Tribute to Stevie Ray Vaughan
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Big Blues Extravaganza : The Best Of Austin City Limits
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Family Style
Blues at Sunrise

ASIN: B000002BJF
Release Date: 1996-08-06

Tracks:

Pride And Joy - Bonnie Raitt
Texas Flood - Jimmie Vaughan
Telephone Song - B.B. King
Long Way From Home - Buddy Guy
Ain't Gone'N Give Up On Your Love - Eric Clapton
Love Struck Baby - Robert Cray
Cold Shot - Dr. John
Six String Down - Jimmy Vaughn/ Eric Clapton/ BonnieRaitt/ Robert Cray/ B.B. King/Buddy Guy/Dr. John/Art Neville
Tick Tock - Eric Clapton
SRV Shuffle - Eric Clapton

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A magic night (May 11, 1995) on PBS's Austin City Limits translates superbly to disc for this heartfelt and soulful salute from a Hall of Fame crew led by B.B. King, Bonnie Raitt, Eric Clapton, Robert Cray, Buddy Guy, and Dr. John. Brother Jimmy's elegant "Texas Flood," Raitt's kick-ass "Pride and Joy," and the amiable collective jams on "Six Strings Down" and "SRV Shuffle" are all highlights. --Jeff Bateman

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Austin City Limits Tribute recorded.......2007-07-05

This is one of the best of ACL and that's saying a whole lot. This 1995 tribute to Austin-based Stevie Ray Vaughn featured an all-star cast, including Stevie's brother, Jimmy, Eric Clapton, BB King, Bonnie Raitt, and more.

"Pride and Joy" by Bonnie Raitt is probably my favorite of the bunch, but there's not a bad song in the collection.

For such a short life, Stevie Ray Vaughn made an outstanding contribution to blues and guitar and he will be sorely missed. In my opinion, this is one of the best tributes I have ever seen or heard.

RICK SHAQ GOLDSTEIN SAYS: "A TRIBUTE AN SRV LOVER LIKE SHAQ, SAYS THANK YOU FOR!".......2007-01-28

Stevie Ray Vaughn and Albert King are my two favorite electric blue guitarists. I've had this CD for 10 years and it's just as great every time I play it. Until the last month (December 2006) I didn't know about amazon.com's venue for reviews, so Shaq is making up for lost time. This is without a doubt a 5 star classic! With stars paying tribute to Stevie, such as Bonnie Raitt, BB, Buddy Guy, Clapton, Doctor John, Robert Cray, brother Jimmie, and others. Buddy Guy performs a "haunting" version of "Long Way From Home". The lyrics for "Six Strings Down", which basically, welcomes Stevie to blues heaven, where he joins with the likes of Albert King, Freddie King, Albert Collins, T-bone and others, is intelligent, touching, and oh yea! Has a good beat! SHAQ BLUES HISTORICAL TRIVIA NOTE FOR MY LOYAL BLUES FANS: "The night Stevie died, at the end of the concert in Wisconsin, Eric Clapton, told Stevie, with witnesses, "You're the best blues guitarist I ever heard!" By the way, read all of Shaq's blues reviews for all kinds of nuggets like these. P.S. Stevie's last recorded CD is "Family Style". I'll rate it a 5 here because I can't find it on amazon. It's a 4 musically, but the fact that it was the last CD he recorded, in addition to being the reuniting of brothers Stevie and Jimmie, and the hatchet between the brothers was buried.

An exception to the rule.......2006-07-03

Tribute albums aoften strike me as a collection of poor imitations of the original- but this is different. First and foremost, everyone on it was close to SRV, from his brother on down. They knew him, they played with him, and they understood his style. Second, and perhaps even more importantly, this was a live concert. Instead of a bunch of gunslingers trying to out-SRV each other in a studio, you have a group of great musicians, each a great stylist in their own right, and none of whom has to prove anything to anyone. The result is magical music that serves as a true tribute to that great Texas guitar player, Stevie Ray Vaughn.

A fitting tribute.......2005-11-30

This CD has the best blues musicians in the world paying tribute to SRV.
Bonnie Raitt opens with a killer slide version of Pride and Joy,
Jimmy Vaughn does a great version of Texas Flood second only to the version by Stevie.
BB King does Telephone Song. Buddy Guy almost steals the show with Long Way From Home.
Eric Clapton does a solid version on Aint Gonna Give Up On Love.
Robert Cray does a strong version of Love Struck Baby
This is a fitting tribute of musicians who are honoring SRV along with SRV's former band members.
This is a must for any SRV fan, or any blues fan............

What A Tribute To The King Of Blues!.......2004-09-14

I loved the tribute to stevie ray vaughan I mean who would'nt! Their are so many influential blues guitarist on this album including Eric Clapton, Buddy Guy, BB.King, Robert Cray, Jimmie Vaughan, Bonnie Raitt, and more....Their are also many special guests including Dr. John, and Art Neville. As well as the great guitarist, and special guests their is also the orginal member's of Stevie Ray Vaughan and double trouble including Chris Layton, and Tommy Shannon. This live show was done in the Austin City Limits show. I think everybody does great rendition's of Stevie Ray Vaughan's songs including Jimmie Vaughan's: Texas Flood, B.B.King's: Telephone Song, and the powerful rendition of Eric Clapton's: Ain't Gone'N Give Up On Your Love. A really good trio with everybody is Tick Tock, and the Srv Shuffle very cool. This is truely a must have for any guitarist this one is truely" for you!!!!Highly Recomened!

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Missing some of the essentials
Essential if you love blues guitar!!
Nice Job of Gathering Stray Tracks
Quite outstanding!
one cool texan!!!

The Essential Jimmie Vaughan
Jimmie Vaughan
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ASIN: B0000CF30D
Release Date: 2003-09-30

Tracks:

Extra Jimmies
Tuff Enuff
DFW
Good Texan
Boom Bapa Boom
Don't Cha Know
Hey Yeah
Tilt A Whirl
Six Strings Down
Dengue Woman Blues
Cool Lookin' Woman
Like A King
The Ironic Twist
Out There
I Like It Like That (Live)
Dirty Girl

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Missing some of the essentials.......2007-05-13

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?

Essential if you love blues guitar!!.......2006-08-19

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.

Nice Job of Gathering Stray Tracks.......2004-01-26

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

Quite outstanding!.......2003-10-27

I consider Jimmie Vaughan a living legend. Not only did he teach kid-brother Stevie Ray how to play the guitar but he co-founded a group that helped bring blues-rock back to prominence, the Fabulous Thunderbirds. He's played with all the legends and even shared the stage with Jimi Hendrix!
This CD is really very good. Featuring a couple of songs with the Fabulous Thunderbirds, a couple with Stevie Ray, songs from his own albums and a smoking previously-unreleased-live "I Like It Like That," this CD OOZES blues guitar licks and cool Texas vibe that only Jimmie can deliver. His "less is more" guitar style is VERY cool and his voice is easy to listen to. The songs are mostly upbeat and danceable with one slow blues cut "Dengue Woman Blues" that drips with Texas cool!
I only gave this CD 4 stars out of spite...that "Brothers," the guitar "conversation" with Stevie Ray off of the "Family Style" Cd wasn't included. I thought it appropriate for sentimental reasons only. I would LOVE to hear more unreleased early Jimmie/Fabulous Thunderbirds material too!

one cool texan!!!.......2003-10-08

this cd will be in the cd player for sometime to come. this cd could have easily have been a 2 disc set worth of material. the remastering job here is very nice, and the tracks just smoke with bite and plenty of soul. the live version of "she likes it like that" is worth the price alone. do yourself a favor and pick this one up!!

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Much Better Album Than People Give It Credit For
"Nice" but dull
Thunderbirds Not
Smooth
Real Texas Blues

Out There
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ASIN: B000007NAF
Release Date: 1998-06-09

Tracks:

Like A King
Lost In You
Out There
Can't Say No
The Ironic Twist
Positively Meant To Be
Motor Head Baby
Kinky Woman
Astral Projection Blues
Little Son, Big Sun

Customer Reviews:

Much Better Album Than People Give It Credit For.......2006-05-03

No, this isn't a Fabulous T-Birds album, and no this isn't a Stevie Ray Vaughan album -- this is pure Jimmie Vaughan. If you expect anything else, you will not get it.

The context for appreciating Jimmie is different: early Johnny "Guitar" Watson, Guitar Slim, the organ-rich "soul jazz" of Jack McDuff and Grant Green. If you like this stuff, you will probably love what Jimmie is doing these days.

I like the T-Birds and SRV as much as the next guy, but believe it or not, I like what Jimmie is doing these days a lot more. What Jimmie lacks in pump and flash he makes up for with tone and cool.

"Nice" but dull.......2005-02-19

"Tasteful," "clean," and boring. I'm well aware that Jimmie is not his brother, and to be honest, I play Jimmie's cds as often as Stevie's, but this one is so dull, it just leaves me cold. Try "Do You Get the Blues" first for tasteful and clean in the good sense.

Thunderbirds Not.......2003-07-15

I've seen the early T-birds live, and Jimmie Vaughn was the driving force behind their intensity. He had stage prowess that outperformed 99% of what's out there, playing behind the back leads that most guitarists couldn't dream of doing were they playing with 4 hands. Having said that, what happened here? This has to be the lamest music this man has ever done. "Strange Pleasure" is a masterpiece compared to this. Don't get me wrong, I still love this guys music but "Out There" is just that for me.

Smooth.......2000-07-15

This album is nowhere near the painstaking driven outerspace sound of Stevie Ray, Jimmie's brother, but it's not supposed to be. This style is different and is execellent if you take it for what it is, a complete stand-up blues album. One that you can have a good time with and listen to front to back without any track skipping like with some albums. Jimmie is an underrated bluesman with a voice as smooth as albert King and a guitar style as cool as B.B. King. Anybody trying to pick up the blues needs to hear this array of electric and acoustic deep blues and old time rythms and melodies. Jimmie Vaughan may not be a guitar god like his brother but I think this album seals him in as being one of the most talented living bluesman alive and as having one of the most easily spotted styles aside of that. Beginning to end you can feel the cool subtle workings of his guitar and his voice and his simple traditional sounding blues lyrics. Of course at times you hear a little bit of good old rock and roll but what is old rock and roll if not a voodoo child of the quick blues? Stevie Ray is smiling down on his Big Bro with no doubt as he unleashes this humble but happy record with total style and grace.

Real Texas Blues.......2000-06-27

A solid follow-up to Strange Pleasure. This album is proof positive that Jimmie is a master of "slow hand" blues. He includes more tough Texas shuffles and some great new and innovative stuff (i.e "Astral Projection Blues" with Dr. John on the Vibes). This album is every bit as fun to listen to as his previous effort. Masterful work once again.

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