With slick production from Nile Rodgers and employing neither guitarist's band (Double Trouble nor the Fabulous Thunderbirds), this is bluesy, but far from purist. Jimmie makes his vocal debut on "White Boots" and "Good Texan," and the brothers blur the lines between their expected guitar styles -- Stevie sometimes going for a less sustainy twang, Jimmie moving into Albert King territory. When standard blues is the order of the day (the slow instro "Brothers"), the key word is "standard" -- bordering on run-of-the-mill. Instrumentals "D/FW" and "Hillbillies from Outer Space" fare better -- offering ZZ Top crunch and Santo & Johnny steel, respectively. ~ Dan Forte, All Music Guide
Nile Rodgers (Guitar), Nile Rodgers (Producer), Nile Rodgers (Horn Arrangements), Nile Rodgers (Mixing), Larry Aberman (Drums), Tawatha Agee (Vocals), Tawatha Agee (Vocals (Background)), Albert Berry (Bass), Doyle Bramhall (Drums), Patrick Dillett (Engineer), Steve Elson (Saxophone), Steve Elson (Sax (Baritone)), Steve Elson (Sax (Tenor)), Jon Goldberger (Engineer), Jon Goldberger (Mixing), John Hampton (Engineer), Stan Harrison (Saxophone), Stan Harrison (Sax (Alto)), Stan Harrison (Sax (Tenor)), Richard Hilton (Organ), Richard Hilton (Piano), Richard Hilton (Keyboards), Richard Hilton (Programming), Richard Hilton (Engineer), Preston Hubbard (Bass), Preston Hubbard (Bass (Upright)), Hiro Ishihara (Assistant Engineer), Brenda White-King (Vocals), Brenda White-King (Vocals (Background)), Curtis King (Vocals), Curtis Rance King, Jr. (Vocals (Background)), Bob Ludwig (Mastering), Katherine Miller (Assistant Engineer), Katherine Miller (Mixing Assistant), Jeff Powell (Assistant Engineer), Dave Shiffman (Assistant Engineer), George Sims (Vocals), George Sims (Vocals (Background)), David Spinner (Vocals), David Spinner (Vocals (Background)), Budd Tunick (Production Manager), Michael Vasquez (Assistant Engineer), Jimmie Vaughan (Organ), Jimmie Vaughan (Guitar), Jimmie Vaughan (Guitar (Steel)), Jimmie Vaughan (Vocals), Jimmie Vaughan (Vocals (Background)), Stevie Ray Vaughan (Guitar), Stevie Ray Vaughan (Vocals), Stevie Ray Vaughan (Vocals (Background)), Stevie Ray Vaughan (Main Performer), Vaughan Brothers (Main Performer), Tony Sellari (Art Direction), Lee Crum (Photography), Mark Proct (Project Coordinator), Al Berry (Bass)
Family Style is a blues-rockalbum by the Vaughan Brothers, released September 1990. The album features the brethren guitarists and vocalists, Jimmie and Stevie Ray Vaughan, in their first — and last — studio collaboration. In his early years, Stevie Ray Vaughan often remarked that he would like to do an album with his brother. Stevie Ray Vaughan fulfilled that wish in his very last studio performance. The liner notes end with "Thanks Mama V. for letting us play."
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"Hard to Be" (Stevie Ray Vaughan, Doyle Bramhall) - 4:41