{"id":16749,"date":"2019-07-27T05:30:15","date_gmt":"2019-07-27T09:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=16749"},"modified":"2019-07-20T19:06:12","modified_gmt":"2019-07-20T23:06:12","slug":"album-review-jimmie-vaughan-baby-please-come-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2019\/07\/27\/album-review-jimmie-vaughan-baby-please-come-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Jimmie Vaughan &#8212; Baby, Please Come Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-16750\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/jimmie_vaughan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/jimmie_vaughan.jpg 350w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/jimmie_vaughan-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/jimmie_vaughan-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>Though he\u2019s been a professional musician for decades \u2013 his band opened for Jimi Hendrix in 1969 \u2013 Jimmie Vaughan didn\u2019t begin a recording career under his own name until 1994, half a decade after leaving the band he founded, the Fabulous Thunderbirds. Since that time, however, the Stratocaster-wielding blues rock guitarist has released more than a half dozen albums. The first two releases of the current decade were covers collections, and his latest release <i>Baby, Please Come Home<\/i> continues in that vein. The 11-song album features Vaughan on guitar and vocals, backed by longtime associates George Rains (drums) and bassist Ronnie James. For more than half of the album\u2019s cuts, that trio is expanded, variously adding Hammond organ, piano and\/or horns.<\/p>\n<p>With a voice slightly reminiscent of Louis Prima, Vaughan sinks his teeth into material originally cut by an eclectic assortment of immortals: T-Bone Walker, Lefty Frizzell, Chuck Willis, Fats Domino, Jimmy Reed and Clarence \u201cGatemouth\u201d Brown.\u201d To his credit, Vaughan often digs deep, avoiding the more obvious choices. On Richard Berry\u2019s \u201cBe My Lovely Dovey\u201d a female chorus (Emily Gimble and Georgia Bramhall) responds to his calls.<\/p>\n<p>The greasy yakety sax on cuts like Willis\u2019 \u201cWhat\u2019s Your Name?\u201d is emblematic of the style Vaiughan explores on <i>Baby, Please Come Home<\/i>. It\u2019s steeped in the postwar jump blues and swing of Louis Jordan and Roy Brown. Walker\u2019s \u201cI\u2019m Still in Love with You\u201d is the rare cut in which the band slows it way down; Vaughan shows himself to be a convincing blues crooner. Elsewhere, on tracks like the instrumental workout \u201cHold It,\u201d Vaughan peels away the extra instruments; the live cut features only him plus drummer Rains and Mike Flanigin sparring on the organ.<\/p>\n<p><i>Baby, Please Come Home<\/i> blows by quickly; only two of the tunes break the four-minute mark, and four clock in under three minutes. But quality beats quantity every time, and Jimmie Vaughan seems to be having a good time playing tunes that in all likelihood have been in his record collection \u2013 if not his repertoire \u2013 for decades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though he\u2019s been a professional musician for decades \u2013 his band opened for Jimi Hendrix in 1969 \u2013 Jimmie Vaughan didn\u2019t begin a recording career under his own name until [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16750,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,49,65],"tags":[3850],"class_list":["post-16749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blues","category-new-release","category-review","tag-jimmie-vaughan","cat-9-id","cat-49-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16751,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16749\/revisions\/16751"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}