Strange Pleasure

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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

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Strange Pleasure

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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
Manufacturer: Sony
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Do You Get the Blues?
Out There
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Family Style
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ASIN: B00000298D
Release Date: 1994-04-12

Tracks:

Boom-Bapa-Boom
Don't Cha Know
Hey-Yeah
Flamenco Dancer
(Everybody's Got) Sweet Soul Vibe
Tilt A Whirl
Six Strings Down
Just Like Putty
Two Wings
Love The World
Strange Pleasure (Modern Backporch Duende)

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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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Strange Pleasure/Out There
Jimmie Vaughan
Manufacturer: Acadia Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000T71BB6
Release Date: 2007-08-06

Tracks:

Boom-Papa-Boom
Don't Cha Know
Hey Yeah
Flamenco Dancer
(Everybody's Got) Sweet Soul Vibe
Tilt A Whirl
Six Strings Down
Just Like Putty
Two Wings
Love The World
Strange Pleasure (Modern Backporch Duende)
Like A King
Lost In You
Out There
Can't Say No
Ironic Twist
Positively Meant To Be
Motor Head Baby
Kinky Woman
Astral Projection Blues
Little Son, Big Son

Album Description

A 2 CD set containing two original albums. The Man who formed THE FABULOUS THUNDERBIRDS in 1975 and the brother of the late great STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN .JIMMIE VAUGHAN left the T BIRDS in 1989 after their third album for Epic and released STRANGE PLEASURES in 1994 produced by NILE ROGERS and featuring guest artists DR. JOHN and LOU ANN BARTON. OUT THERE released in1998 is mostly self produced with DR. JOHN making another guest appearance.

Album Details

2007 Digitally Remastered Double CD Set with Two Original Albums. Vaughan was Founding Member of the Fabulous Thunderbirds as Well as the Surviving Older Brother of the Late Stevie Ray Vaughan. After Leaving the T Birds He Released "Strange Pleasure" in 1994 that Featured Guest Artists Dr John and Austin Blues Legend Lou Ann Barton. In 1998, He Released "Out There" which was Self-produced and also Featured Dr John in a Guest Starring Role.

Verdi - La Traviata / Cotrubas, Gedda, MacNeil, Krips [highlights]

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Very interesting
$5 for these wonderful Traviata highlights is a steal.

Verdi - La Traviata / Cotrubas, Gedda, MacNeil, Krips [highlights]
Kurt Equiluz , Ernst Gutstein , Emmy Loose , and Cornell MacNeil
Manufacturer: Gala
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000001XMR
Release Date: 2000-06-06

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Act One, Toast: 'Let's Drink From The Joyous Chalice' - Nicolai Gedda/Ileana Cotrubas/Cornell MacNeil/Edita Gruberova/Kurt Equiluz/Ernst Gutstein...
Act One, Toast: 'One Happy Day' - Nicolai Gedda/Ileana Cotrubas
Act One, Scene And Aria (Violetta)-Finale: 'How Strange It Is!...Was This The Man' - Ileana Cotrubas
Act One, Scene And Aria (Violetta)-Finale: 'It's Madness! It's Empty Delirium!...Free And Aimless' - Ileana Cotrubas/Nicolai Gedda
Act Two, Scene And Aria (Alfredo): 'There's No Pleasure... My Passionate Spirit' - Nicolai Gedda
Act Two, Scene And Aria (Alfredo): 'Oh, My Remorse' - Nicolai Gedda/Emmy Loose
Act Two, Scene And Aria (Alfredo): 'Mademoiselle Valery?' - Cornell MacNeil/Ileana Cotrubas
Act Two, Scene And Aria (Alfredo): 'As Pure As An Angel' - Cornell MacNeil/Ileana Cotrubas
Act Two, Scene And Aria (Alfredo): 'You Cannot Know The Kind Of Passion' - Ileana Cotrubas/Cornell MacNeil
Act Two, Scene And Aria (Alfredo): 'One Day, When Time' - Cornell MacNeil/Ileana Cotrubas
Act Two, Scene And Aria (Alfredo): 'Say To Your Daughter' - Ileana Cotrubas/Cornell MacNeil
Act Two, Scene And Aria (Alfredo): 'Tell Me What I Must Do...Say You Don't Love Him' - Ileana Cotrubas/Cornell MacNeil
Act Two, Scene (Violetta): 'Heaven, Give Me Strength!' - Ileana Cotrubas/Emmy Loose
Act Two, Scene (Violetta): 'What Are You Doing?...Nothing' - Nicolai Gedda/Ileana Cotrubas
Act Two, Scene (Violetta): 'What Has Vanished From Your Heart' - Cornell MacNeil
Act Two, Scene (Violetta): 'I've Asked Him To Follow Me' - Ileana Cotrubas/Nicolai Gedda/Cornell MacNeil/Edita Gruberova/Kurt Equiluz/Ernst Gutstein...
Act Two, Scene (Violetta): 'For Me This Woman Lost All She Possessed' - Nicolai Gedda/Ileana Cotrubas/Cornell MacNeil/Edita Gruberova/Kurt Equiluz/Ernst Gutstein...
Act Two, Scene (Violetta): 'A Man Who Offends A Woman' - Cornell MacNeil/Nicolai Gedda/Edita Gruberova/Kurt Equiluz/Herbert Lackner/Harald Proglhof...
Act Two, Scene (Violetta): 'Alfredo, How Should You Understand' - Ileana Cotrubas
Act Three: 'You Kept Your Promise...I Wait, But They Never Come...Farewell Happy Dreams' - Ileana Cotrubas
Act Three, Scene And Duet (Violetta Ed/And Alfredo): 'We'll Leave Paris, My Dearest' - Emmy Loose/Ileana Cotrubas/Nicolai Gedda
Act Three, Last Final: 'Ah, Violetta!...You, Monsieur? - Cornell MacNeil/Ileana Cotrubas/Nicolai Gedda
Act Three, Last Final: 'Take This Picture Of Me' - Ileana Cotrubas/Nicolai Gedda/Cornell MacNeil/Emmy Loose/Herbert Lackner

Customer Reviews:

Very interesting.......2005-02-15

Josef Krips is my favorite conductor of all time, especially of Mozart. I had never heard him conduct Verdi, and even though he would have been of an advanced age in 1971 (the year of this recording), I bought it anyway.

This is good collection of highlights: it is over 70 minutes long and includes pretty much every major aria and ensemble in the opera. The conducting of Krips is, as I expected, logical and elegant in his Viennese fashion. As another reviewer has noted, there are a few beats where the singers and orchestra aren't in the same groove - but it's a live performance, and the performers are on their toes and are back together in no time. These mistakes are merely ripples and no energy is lost.

Nicolai Gedda annd Ileana Cotrubas (who is to me the most splendid of all Violettas), are no-brainers. They sparkle together in as Alfredo and Violetta should, and sink together properly later on as well.

The recording quality is merely decent; but for a budget label, such is hardly unexpected. Get this if you like Krips, or great conducting in general, and certainly if you enjoyed Cotrubas in the Kleiber set.

$5 for these wonderful Traviata highlights is a steal........2000-12-07

Both Ileana Cotrubas and Nicolai Gedda are in fine voice for this 1971 live performance from the Vienna Staatsoper. Cotrubas, in particular, was in the early spring of her career and had just signed a three year contract with the house. All the promise of a magnificent career can be heard in her already maturing artistry and dramatic emphasis, and that, combined with the youthful bloom and beauty of her lovely, evenly placed soprano, makes this a thrilling operatic introduction. We get a generous hour and a quarter of music and the particular joy of hearing Cornell Macneil's authentic Verdian baritone in it's prime. Josef Krips conducts with rather too much enthusiasm at times, and leaves his tenor, soprano and chorus behind for a moment or two in Act 1. It's interesting to hear them musically bumping into each other and the overall musical and dramatic effect is not badly spoiled. The recording quality is surprisingly, very good. This is a must buy, especially at the excellent price.

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A Strange Kind Of Pleasure
Double Cross
Manufacturer: Part Records/Hepcat
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000N0J8YG
Release Date: 2005-02-15