The legendary Jimmie Vaughan, co founder of The Fabulous Thunderbirds, brother of the iconic Stevie Ray Vaughan, is back with a new album ‘Blues, Ballads & Favorites’.

Self-produced and recorded in Vaughan’s hometown of Austin, the newest offering by the co-founder of the iconic, still-missed Fabulous Thunderbirds spotlights a wild array of tunes originally recorded by the likes of Roy Milton, Jimmy Reed, Roscoe Gordon and Little Richard, with a Willie Nelson favorite tossed in. No particular criteria were used in selecting the tracks to include; Vaughan simply narrowed down a long list of songs he liked and Blues, Ballads and Favorites was the ultimate result.

“… like all of my albums this one is 100% totally selfish. I want people to like what I do but at the same time I have this strong feeling that if I don’t like it, I can’t expect them to”

Each of the songs on Blues, Ballads and Favorites, naturally, has a special meaning to Vaughan, who’s absorbed the essence of these prime slices of Americana for nearly all his life. Several tracks, including the late Doug Sahm’s “Why, Why, Why” and Billy “The Kid” Emerson’s “The Pleasure Is All Mine,” feature a tight, funky horn section, and several spotlight Barton singing in tandem with Vaughan, among them the ballads “I’m Leaving It Up To You” (written by Don “Sugarcane” Harris and Dewey Terry) and Little Richard’s “Send Me Some Lovin’.”