Hard To Be - Music

The Vaughan Brothers Is A Collaboration Of Stevie Ray Vaughan And Older Brother Jimmie Vaughan. A One Time Thing At The Time That Could've Gone To More Albums But SRV's Unexpected Death Dashed All Hopes Of Making Another Album With His Brother. The Album "Family Style" Was Recorded In 1990 And Was Released Just After SRV's Death But There Will Always Be Double Trouble In Our Lives. Sibling Blues Guitarists Jimmie Vaughan born In 1951 And Stevie Ray Vaughan 1954-1990 Were Born And Raised In Dallas TX. Each Began Playing Guitar During Childhood Stevie Ray Inspired To Take Up The Instrument By His Older Brother. Jimmie Vaughan Played In Various Groups In Dallas And Austin Before Hooking Up With Singer/harmonica Player Kim Wilson And Forming The Fabulous Thunderbirds In 1974. The Group Was Signed To Chrysalis Records For Which They Made Four Albums Starting With A Self-Titled 1979 Debut. The Second And Third Of Them What’s The Word 1980 And Butt Rockin’ 1981 Made The Lower Reaches Of The Charts But The Band Was Dropped By The Label After The Commercial Failure Of T-Bird Rhythm In The Fall Of 1982. Meanwhile Stevie Ray Vaughan Had Been Playing Around Texas At First With Triple Threat Featuring Singer Lou Ann Barton And Then After Her Departure With Drummer Chris Layton And Newly Recruited Bassist Tommy Shannon As Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble. His Appearance At The Montreux Jazz Festival In 1982 Led To A Recording Contract With Epic Records And The Release Of His Debut Album Texas Flood A Top 40 Hit In 1983. He Followed It With The Even More Successful Couldn’t Stand The Weather 1984 And Soul To Soul 1985 Each Of Which Went Gold Within Two Years. All Three Albums Have Since Gone Platinum. Stevie Ray Vaughan’s Success Stimulated Epic’s Interest In His Brother’s Band. The Epic Subsidiary CBS Associated Signed The Fabulous Thunderbirds And Issued Tuff Enuff 1986 Which Spawned A Top Ten Single In The Title-Track And Itself Made The Top 20 Going Gold Within Six Months And Eventually Platinum. The Same Year Stevie Ray Vaughan Issued Live Alive Which Eventually Went Platinum. The Careers Of Both Brothers Subsided Soon After. Stevie Ray Vaughan Went Into Rehab While The Fabulous Thunderbirds’ Follow-Ups To Tuff Enuff Hot Number 1987 And Powerful Stuff 1989 Did Not Match Its Commercial Success. Jimmie Vaughan Amicably Parted From The Band In June 1990. Stevie Ray Vaughan Returned After More Than Two And A Half Years With In Step 1989 Which Became His Biggest Seller Yet Eventually Going Double Platinum. The Brothers Had Long Planned A Duo Project And In 1990 They Finally Found Time For It Recording Family Style. But The Month Before The Album’s Scheduled Release Stevie Ray Vaughan Was Killed In A Helicopter Crash On August 27 1990. The Album Appeared In September And It Soared Into The Top Ten Selling Over A Million Copies. Jimmie Vaughan Helped Oversee Posthumous Releases Of His Brother’s Recordings Such As The Two-Million-Selling Top Ten Hit The Sky Is Crying 1991 . He Launched His Own Solo Career In The Spring Of 1994 With Strange Pleasure Released By Epic. 'Vaughan Brothers' Are Also On Last.Fm Here 'Vaughan Brothers' Read More On Last.Fm. User-Contributed Text Is Available Under The Creative Commons By-SA License Additional Terms May Apply. read less