Born in Dallas and raised in Austin, Tyrone Vaughan is the son of Jimmie Vaughan the founder and guitar player of the Fabulous Thunderbirds and nephew of legendary blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan.
Tyrone grew up in the fast rising music scene in Austin Tx and was heavily influenced by many blues musicians. Muddy Waters gave him his harmonica at an early age and his Uncle Stevie Ray Vaughan would give him his first 2 guitars.
Vaughan would also get to see Bobby ” Blue” Bland, Albert Collins, Eddie “Hound Dog” Taylor, James Brown, Otis Rush and many others, even meeting legends like Buddy Guy, Albert Collins, and B.B. King. As a result of his long-time, important presence in the Texas blues world, he was friends with many big names in the Austin Blues Scene; Denny Freeman, Derek Obrien, W.C. Clark, and Keith Ferguson to name a few.
Fast forward 35 years and Tyrone was asked to join the New Orleans based band Cyril Neville’s Royal Southern Brotherhood RSB The Neville Brother and The Meter’s vocalist would go on to write 3 songs (I wanna be free) (Can’t waste time) (Where there’s smoke) and record 2 albums with Vaughan on Ruf Records. Tyrone also wrote and performed on his father's Grammy award winning 2001 album “Do You Get The Blues?”
Tyrone Vaughan is back playing as his own frontman, strummin’ and singing Texas blues as only a Texan can. He's got a new blues album to be released in 2025, “Punish My Crime,” made while working with writer and producer Julian Ramirez from Indigo Sound Co. in South Texas.
Catch him Oct. 30th and get a glimpse of this world class blues-man up close and in person!
