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
Stan Harrison (Sax (Tenor)), Jon Goldberger (Engineer), Doyle Bramhall (Drums), John Hampton (Engineer), Bob Ludwig (Mastering), Richard Hilton (Engineer), Curtis Rance King, Jr. (Vocals (Background)), Jon Goldberger (Mixing), Brenda White-King (Vocals), Patrick Dillett (Engineer), Al Berry (Bass), Larry Aberman (Drums), Nile Rodgers (Guitar), George Sims (Vocals), Steve Elson (Sax (Baritone)), Richard Hilton (Keyboards), Stan Harrison (Sax (Alto)), Jimmie Vaughan (Guitar (Steel)), Hiro Ishihara (Assistant Engineer), Tawatha Agee (Vocals), Preston Hubbard (Bass), Jimmie Vaughan (Vocals (Background)), Jimmie Vaughan (Guitar), Katherine Miller (Assistant Engineer), Preston Hubbard (Bass (Upright)), Tony Sellari (Art Direction), Mark Proct (Project Coordinator), Nile Rodgers (Mixing), Jeff Powell (Assistant Engineer), Tawatha Agee (Vocals (Background)), Nile Rodgers (Horn Arrangements), Stevie Ray Vaughan (Vocals (Background)), Stan Harrison (Saxophone), David Spinner (Vocals), Lee Crum (Photography), Richard Hilton (Programming), Curtis King (Vocals), David Spinner (Vocals (Background)), Jimmie Vaughan (Vocals), Stevie Ray Vaughan (Guitar), Jimmie Vaughan (Organ), George Sims (Vocals (Background)), Budd Tunick (Production Manager), Michael Vasquez (Assistant Engineer), Dave Shiffman (Assistant Engineer), Stevie Ray Vaughan (Vocals), Katherine Miller (Mixing Assistant), Nile Rodgers (Producer), Steve Elson (Saxophone), Steve Elson (Sax (Tenor)), Albert Berry (Bass), Richard Hilton (Organ), Brenda White-King (Vocals (Background)), Richard Hilton (Piano)
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