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Tyrone Vaughan
March 11
Music Ranch Lakeland
The son of Fabulous Thunderbirds founder and guitarist Jimmie Vaughan, and nephew of legendary blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan, Tyrone Vaughan grew up in Austin Texas’s then-exploding music scene. Muddy Waters gifted him his first harmonica and his Uncle Stevie gave him his first two guitars. Inspiration from his maternal grandfather led to Vaughan’s debut, 2011’s country-leaning blues-rocker Downtime. Vaughan was then invited to join Cyril Neville’s Royal Southern Brotherhood, with whom he recorded two albums, 2015’s Don’t Look Back and 2016’s The Royal Gospel. Neville and Vaughan spent two years on the road covering three continents and more than 15 countries. Vaughan has played with Billy Gibbons, Double Trouble, John Popper, Eric Gales, Derek Trucks, Robert Randolph Band, and many more. He was inducted into the Texas Blues Hall Of Fame 2019, and has a writing Grammy for “Without You” from Jimmie Vaughan’s 2001 Do You Get The Blues? album. In 2017, Vaughan teamed up with Malford Milligan, an Austin-area favorite since the 1980s who sang with