(Austin, TX) Singer, songwriter and guitarist Tyrone Vaughan is making waves and sparking a buzz as a hot country music newcomer. Thanks to a sound that’s true to the tradition yet right up to date, Vaughan brings a famed family legacy as well as deep roots to his sound. The positive initial response to his first single, “Downtime,” is setting the stage for his full debut album of the same name coming in early 2012.
Vaughan grew up surrounded by music, and was the guitarist for a successful and popular Texas indie band, Breedlove, before striking out on his own as a country artist in the style that inspired him and felt like his musical home. The son of blues guitar hero Jimmie Vaughan and nephew of musical icon Stevie Ray Vaughan, he brings to his music the same famed electric six-string talents that made them stars. He then adds to that his muscular vocals and a gift for composing catchy songs fashioned from the stuff of real life, and already boasts a number he wrote that was covered by his father on his Grammy winning album Do You Get The Blues? Tyrone’s family background also includes a maternal grandfather who was a country bandleader and paternal grandparents who were avid country fans and hoped their two guitar-playing sons would embrace that style. Now he draws from all that plus his youth listening to the extensive album collection of the stepfather who raised him.
The results are red-hot and real country that has been greeted with enthusiasm by country radio programmers and air personalities he met at the recent CRS 2011 gathering of broadcasters in Nashville and as he has taken his “Downtime” single personally to stations and played for them as well as their listeners. His debut video for the song has been rapidly adding views daily on YouTube to surpass 17,000 plays while he still remains a new act that country fans are just beginning to discover.
On his radio tour Vaughan has been wowing those who hear him at every stop with a high powered acoustic mini-show that include the instrumental prowess of his guitarist and banjo player Will Knaak and fiddler Jerry Reynolds. Later this year he hits the road for concerts with his full band whose powerful performances have already earned him standing ovations at select preview dates.
“Downtime” offers relief from the summer heat with its celebration of good times away from the 9 to 5 working grind. The Downtime album features nine more energetic and winning tracks that meld his populist sensibility with a personal touch that range from rocking contemporary country to updated old school roots to big arm-waving balladry.
“From the moment I decided to not just play guitar and make my mark as a fully rounded artist who sings, write songs, and performs with a band that can do it all, country music was the style where it all felt natural,” Vaughan explains. The music industry professionals he has met in recent months have expressed excitement as a member of one of the first families of electric guitar conquers new artistic and stylistic territory. With the name Vaughan already known to millions of music lovers worldwide as a trademark for dynamic music that’s true to the roots as it progresses the music forward, many more are sure to follow as Tyrone makes a mark all his own and expands the family style.
Tyrone Vaughan radio tour:
8/3 KIIM Tucson, AZ
8/3 KNIX Phoenix, AZ
8/4KMLE Phoenix, AZ
8/9WMAD Madison, WI
8/9WWQM Madison, WI
8/9WMIL Milwaukee, WI
8/10 WQHK Ft. Wayne, IN
8/10 WLHK Indianapolis, IN
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