Maurice John Vaughn

Maurice John Vaughn’s 1984 debut place, Generic Blues Record, came packaged in an ordinary white coat, its name unceremoniously stamped on its front side like a bundle of no-brand grain on the grocer’s shelf. It appeared as if the cleverest of promotion ploys, however in reality, it had been a simple financial requirement — Vaughn’s personal Reecy label was working on the shoestring. Vaughn is not any much longer a blues unfamiliar. With a demanding 1993 recording on Alligator (Within the Darkness of the town) melding blues, spirit, funk, along with other modern influences, he’s produced into among Chicago’s most interesting and flexible younger blues performers. Fluent on both acoustic guitar and sax, Vaughn performed both in sideman functions prior to moving from his personal. Sax came 1st. Vaughn was raised on Chicago’s South part, blowing his horn with numerous R&B organizations and recording using the Selected Few for Chi-Sound Information in 1976. When sax gigs grew scarce, Vaughn started to emphasize his acoustic guitar abilities. Blues guitarist Phil Man recruited him and his music group for any 1979 Canadian tour, as well as the genre appealed to him. Vaughn later on kept down sideman places with Luther Allison, Child Seals, Valerie Wellington, along with a.C. Reed. Alligator Information maintained the no-frills product packaging when it reissued Common Blues Recording after Vaughn sang “Nothing at all Left to trust In” around the label’s 1987 anthology THE BRAND NEW Bluebloods. Within the Darkness of the town arrived in 1993. Vaughn toured sporadically following a release, occasionally playing in colleges for children who had by no means noticed the blues before. He remaining the street to are an A&R guy for Appaloosa Information, producing information by famous brands Maxine Carr and Shirley Johnson. He also do some session function playing on two albums by Detroit Junior. In 2001, he finally released his following album, Dangerous Street. Regardless of the cover artwork on his 1st LP, there is nothing common at about Maurice Vaughn’s make of soulful blues.