Jimmie Vaughan, Omar Kent Dykes - Big Town Playboy
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Artist: Jimmie Vaughan, Omar Kent DykesEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2009-04-14
Music Label: RUF RECORDS
Soundtracks:
- Big Town Playboy
- Upside Your Head
- Can't Judge Nobody
- Think
- Mary, Mary
- No More Doggin'
- Hello Mary Lee
- Close Together
- Dream Girl
- Since I Met You Baby
- Man Down There
- King Bee
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Music Review: Red, White and the Blues!
Rating: 5 Stars
Blue's lovers unite! The Big Town Playboy produces yet another five star CD loaded with quality songs and all-star talent performed only as Omar Kent Dykes can. This CD could be passed off as a "greatest hits" package with a long list of well known and respected Texas blues artists offering their support. Jimmie Vaughn, Lou Ann Barton, James Cotton are all established stars in their own careers, and to have them once again step up and support Omar's CD show's great support for a great singer of the blues!
Omar's gritty voice compliments some really well written songs from Jimmy Reed, Eddie Taylor, John Lee Hooker and James Moore. The producers of this CD really know how to put talent and content together. This combination introduced me to a number of great tunes that I had not listened to in years. The highlight for me is Omar's version of "King Bee." I remembered John Belushi's performance on SNL all those years ago. But, this time, the quality of the song is featured and not a ridiculous (but funny) bee costume!
Man, this is a great CD, and I highly recommend every single song.
Way to go, Omar!
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Description of Big Town Playboy
Austin, besides being the Texas state capital, is home to much of the best in American roots music. Since the 1970s, ballsy blues players, renegade country pickers, and raw-voiced rockers have mixed & matched their musical styles in Austin's thriving club scene--and that's where Omar Kent Dykes holds court.As the leader of Omar & The Howlers, Dykes honed a band capable of the sort of raw, rowdy, rambunctious blues that made Howlin' Wolf and Hound Dog Taylor legends.
In 1987, Dykes signed with Columbia Records and cut Hard Times in the Land of Plenty, which sold in excess 500,000 copies. Since then there have been another dozen albums, all featuring Dykes' guitar and baritone voice, which reviewers describe as a cross between Howlin' Wolf in his prime and the warning growl of a large primate.
Hyperbole aside, the big man's talents have earned an international following, prestigious awards, and induction into the Texas Musicians' Hall of Fame.
Band has been featured on PBS show Austin City Limits.
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