Jimmie Vaughan
When Jimmie Vaughan says “I have the best job in the world,” he isn’t kidding. For more than four decades, the guitar-slinging Texan legend has been earning his living rockin’ the blues, and nothing makes the man happier.
Vaughan’s love affair with blues and rock ’n’ roll goes back to his childhood in Dallas. He began playing around the Lone Star State with a series of bands, most notably the Chessmen, who opened once for a hotshot new guitarist named Jimi Hendrix. Then, in 1974, Vaughan hooked up with vocalist and harmonica player Kim Wilson and the Fabulous Thunderbirds were born. In 1979, the band released their debut album and their fan base grew steadily from there. Even as rock music morphed around them—with trends such as punk and hip-hop making their grand arrivals—the Fab T-Birds stuck with the high-octane blues-rock formula that earned their music the tag “Blue Wave” in the media.
The T-Birds reached their peak of popularity with the 1986 release of Tuff Enuff, a classic of the genre that still sounds as monstrous today as it did nearly a quarter-century ago. Jimmie stayed with the group another four years after that, and his first move following his exit from the group was to cut an album with his kid brother, not a bad little guitar picker himself: Stevie Ray Vaughan. Family Style was a huge hit upon its release in the fall of 1990, but its success came with a huge price tag: Stevie Ray’s death in a helicopter crash just weeks after the album’s completion.
It took Jimmie a few years to come to grips with Stevie Ray’s untimely passing, and only then was he able to launch his own solo career in earnest. Strange Pleasure (1994), his solo debut, included Dr. John among its cast of players, working out on a set mostly comprised of original Vaughan compositions. The same formula was utilized for 1998’s Out There, while Do You Get the Blues? (2001) found Vaughan more fully embracing the rootsy down-home Texas blues sound he grew up with. It took nine years before Jimmie Vaughan returned with a new album, but Blues, Ballads and Favorites was welcomed by his old fans and countless new ones—the album was nominated for Best Traditional Blues Album at this year’s Grammy awards.
For Jimmie Vaughan music has always been about one thing: having a good ol’ time. “It’s 120% American and I just love it,” he says. “It’s fun.”
Tickets are $25, $20 & $15 plus tax and an online/phone ticketing fee (this fee is waived when tickets are purchased in the Gift Shop). Tickets in the ADA section are for patrons with mobility disabilities and up to three companions. If companion seating is not available because the ADA section is sold out, RCGR will offer other seats as close as possible to the accessible seat, if available, at the purchase price of the other section. Tickets are on sale in the Gift Shop and online.
Hotel packages are available by calling 877-677-3456. Packages are $160 and include a Sunday night stay in a deluxe king or double queen room, two tickets to the show and two dinners at Robert's Buffet. There are a limited number of hotel packages available.
Doors open at 4pm and the show starts at 5pm.
Vaughan’s love affair with blues and rock ’n’ roll goes back to his childhood in Dallas. He began playing around the Lone Star State with a series of bands, most notably the Chessmen, who opened once for a hotshot new guitarist named Jimi Hendrix. Then, in 1974, Vaughan hooked up with vocalist and harmonica player Kim Wilson and the Fabulous Thunderbirds were born. In 1979, the band released their debut album and their fan base grew steadily from there. Even as rock music morphed around them—with trends such as punk and hip-hop making their grand arrivals—the Fab T-Birds stuck with the high-octane blues-rock formula that earned their music the tag “Blue Wave” in the media.
The T-Birds reached their peak of popularity with the 1986 release of Tuff Enuff, a classic of the genre that still sounds as monstrous today as it did nearly a quarter-century ago. Jimmie stayed with the group another four years after that, and his first move following his exit from the group was to cut an album with his kid brother, not a bad little guitar picker himself: Stevie Ray Vaughan. Family Style was a huge hit upon its release in the fall of 1990, but its success came with a huge price tag: Stevie Ray’s death in a helicopter crash just weeks after the album’s completion.
It took Jimmie a few years to come to grips with Stevie Ray’s untimely passing, and only then was he able to launch his own solo career in earnest. Strange Pleasure (1994), his solo debut, included Dr. John among its cast of players, working out on a set mostly comprised of original Vaughan compositions. The same formula was utilized for 1998’s Out There, while Do You Get the Blues? (2001) found Vaughan more fully embracing the rootsy down-home Texas blues sound he grew up with. It took nine years before Jimmie Vaughan returned with a new album, but Blues, Ballads and Favorites was welcomed by his old fans and countless new ones—the album was nominated for Best Traditional Blues Album at this year’s Grammy awards.
For Jimmie Vaughan music has always been about one thing: having a good ol’ time. “It’s 120% American and I just love it,” he says. “It’s fun.”
Tickets are $25, $20 & $15 plus tax and an online/phone ticketing fee (this fee is waived when tickets are purchased in the Gift Shop). Tickets in the ADA section are for patrons with mobility disabilities and up to three companions. If companion seating is not available because the ADA section is sold out, RCGR will offer other seats as close as possible to the accessible seat, if available, at the purchase price of the other section. Tickets are on sale in the Gift Shop and online.
Hotel packages are available by calling 877-677-3456. Packages are $160 and include a Sunday night stay in a deluxe king or double queen room, two tickets to the show and two dinners at Robert's Buffet. There are a limited number of hotel packages available.
Doors open at 4pm and the show starts at 5pm.
