[BONUS] Jimmie Vaughan | Music Month
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
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🗓️ 2 May 2019
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Jimmie Vaughan started playing blues guitar when he was a kid and now, more than 5 decades later, he just never stopped. Growing up in Dallas in the 50 and 60s, Jimmie and his little brother, Stevie Ray used to spend their time listening to music and figuring out how to play it on guitar.
By the time Jimmie was about 15, he’d already been getting paid to play in a band 6 nights a week and decided to strike out on his own, eventually landing in Austin, where he’d end up playing with legends like BB King, Eric Clapton and nearly every other blues legend, and eventually earn his own place a legendary blues player.
Along the way, his brother, Stevie Ray Vaughan would join him in Austin, carving his own iconic status in the world of blues. Tragically, Stevie lost his life in a helicopter crash, leaving Jimmie in what he calls his dark years, trying to carry on with music and life. He eventually emerged and has been a guiding light in the world of Blues for more than 50 years now. His new album, BABY, PLEASE COME HOME (https://www.jimmievaughan.com/), is a rolling and righteous celebration of everything the blues can be.
And, as with all of our very special music episodes this month, at the end, Jimmie plays a bit of guitar for us. This one was really special for me, because Jimmie didn’t have his guitar with him in the studio, but he gave me the great honor of playing the acoustic guitar I’d built with my own hands almost a year-to-the-day earlier.
Jimmie is currently touring (https://www.jimmievaughan.com/jimmie-vaughan-tour-dates), so be sure to catch him on the road!
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| 0:00.0 | I am crazy excited to dive into our month of music this month, music in May. |
| 0:12.2 | And today we have Jimmy Bond. |
| 0:14.8 | So Jimmy is somebody who I have been listening to for years and years and years and years and |
| 0:20.8 | odd by Jimmy started playing guitar when he was a kid. |
| 0:24.5 | And now more than five decades later, he kind of just never stopped. |
| 0:28.4 | Growing up in Dallas in the 50s and 60s, Jimmy and his little brother, Stevie, who will |
| 0:33.0 | talk about more, they used to spend their time listening to music and figuring out how |
| 0:36.8 | to play it on guitar. |
| 0:38.7 | But it was actually a football accident that led him to pick up the guitar in the first |
| 0:42.8 | place. |
| 0:43.8 | And we'll talk about that by the time Jimmy was about 15 years old, he'd already been |
| 0:47.8 | playing and getting paid to play in a band six nights a week and decided to kind of |
| 0:52.7 | strike out on his own, eventually landed in Austin where he ended up playing with legends |
| 0:58.3 | like BB King, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Hendrix and nearly every other blues legend and eventually |
| 1:05.2 | earned his own place as a legendary blues player. |
| 1:08.4 | And along the way his brother, Stevie Ray Vaughn, ended up joining him in Austin. |
| 1:12.5 | They'd occasionally played together, but Stevie quickly carved out his own iconic status |
| 1:16.7 | in the world of blues and very tragically, Stevie also lost his life in the helicopter |
| 1:21.4 | crash after a show, leaving Jimmy and what he can call his dark years and trying to figure |
| 1:27.2 | out how to carry on with music and life. |
| 1:30.4 | So we dive into Jimmy's incredible journey at the night, the days and years surrounding |
| 1:34.6 | Stevie's death, how he merged and finally figured out even what to tell his mom about that |
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