VAUGHN BROS DOC KIRBY WARNOCK

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Episode Transcript

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Kirby. You're on with Quinn andkan Tara. Mister Warnock, how are
you? Oh? How good?Fine? Thank you guys, Thank you
for having me here. Where areyou at right now? I'm in Love
of Texas attending the awards ceremony formy granddaughter. Oh congratulations, that's nice.
We're here to talk about the newdocumentary behind Jimmy and Stevie Ray Vaughn

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featuring and we're gonna get to it. Never before seeing footage The Brothers and
Blues is available wherever you get toa major streaming platforms. Yeah, it
sounds like you have the source wrappedup for everything anybody wants to know about
the Brothers? Am I right,sir? Well I do. But I
have to thank Jimmy Vaughan forgetting methose sources because of his personal relationships with

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Eric Clapton and Jackson Brown and BillyGibbons and Al Rogers. That is the
only reason I was able to gethim on camera for the stuff Eric Clapton
does. He talked about Alpine Valley. Oh, yes, with something we
had to get. He and Jimmyboth are interviewed on camera talk about that
final night at Alpine Valley when theyplayed that final game with Steven and what

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happened when they found out he hadbeen killed in the copter crash, and
we had that all on camera.It's evened and done before, and I
think it's pretty moving myself. Youknow, what is your personal relationship with
the Vine Brothers? You do?You grow up around them more or less.
I first saw them back in nineteenseventy seven when I was working for
a local music magazine called Buddy.He was named actor Buddy Holly, and

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I've never seen them playing clubs inTexas and just thinking these guys are amazing?
Why are they famous? And Icovered them and wrote about him the
magazine the end. So I've beenwatching them for almost forty three years and
developed a relationship with him and justwatched them go from dumpy little clubs all
the way to talk of the rockand roll eat, you know, And

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I just always thought their story wasamazing and had to be told awesome being
a lifelong fan and uh, youknow, wanting no more information about that,
I can't wait to check it out. But you've done a lot of
different stuff. You've done something calledBorder bandits a group of Texas Rangers and
the nineteen fifteen raid of McCallan ranchin Edinburgh, Texas. You've also done

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a documentary on the music scene ofthe seventies in Dallas, Texas and frankly
you look a little like a Texasranger, sir. Kind of a diverse
grouping of stuff right there. Whatwas the What was the music scene in
Dallas in the seventies? It wasawesome? Was it gritty? Was it
violent? What was it bluesy?It was awesome. And people don't know

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this because we didn't have YouTube andthe internet. Again, but in the
nineteen seventies the music scene in Dallaswas bigger than Austin's. This was before
Austin became known as a love ofmusic capital in Texas. But we've got
all the people interviewed in the sourcesto prove it. But it was a
huge scene in Dallas from fifties throughthe seventies. It was the music center

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of Texas. Talking to Kirby Warnock, Me and Stevie ray Van Brothers in
Blues available now on all streaming platforms. I watched the trailer where one of
the one of the people you weretalking and said that the bond brothers were
were dangerous how so, Well thatwas Eric Clapton that said there, and

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I think he was talking about thembefore they went to rehab. That's gonna
say, right, Okay, probablydangerous for Eric to hang around when they
fund when they fund dangerous and dangerous, dangerous. Well, the thing about
them, and there was so givenfrom other musicians is that they were very
well respected by all the other guitarplayers and Texans. I mean it was

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almost like all the other guitar playerswere scared off them, you know,
just I would notice why what wasbackstage with them that all the other musicians
were kind of stayed back in thecorner, you know, and approach them
one at a time. But uhso, they just had a reputation of
being guitar players, guitar players evenback to the end that they they could
do stuff with a guitar that otherpeople couldn't do. Can I expect to

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see Stevie ray Vaughn as a teenager, You'll see him now as a teenager,
but as a kid, as aas a seven year old kid,
as a child. Jimmy gave usaccess to a lot of personal family photos
and we also got some home moviesof Stevie when he's always seven years old.
He and Jimmy are at a Christmasparty together and we had home movies

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of that never before seen stuff thatyou can see in that Jimmy and Stevie
Rayvon brothers in Blues. It's allpersonal, but you know, who are
a couple of your favorite guitar playersof all time? It's a lot of
favorites of all time. Or MickRonson, who played on David Bodie's first
album, You know, ZICKI startusand he also played with Mott the Hoople
with Mean Hunter. I always likedhim a lot, and I always liked

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uh Feddie King, and we touchon him heavily in the film because he
was a guitar players all the kidswere watching down in Texas, and I
always liked pretty King a lot.And obviously I like Eric Clapton. I
mean, who doesn't like Eric Clapton? Was he was Clapton okay to work
with? Was he was? Hecool? To you? He was?

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I'll be quite frankly that he wasmore open and candid and honest with us
than I anticipated. The whole timehe was talking, I kept biting my
tongue and don't interrupt him saying getstuff, let him go. You know,
that's great. You know, hewas extremely gracious and quite frankly.
I think the only reason he nevertalked about this on Cambra before was it
was too soon, and I thinkenough time to pass where he could speak

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honestly about it, you know,because Stevie has been going for thirty three
years now. He's talking that.He's talking about Eric Clapton talking about the
night at Alpine Valley when Stevie diedin the helicopter crash. That will be
in this documentary. It's gonna begood. Yeah, it's Kirby Warnock on
the phone. Grab Grab grab thedocumentary wherever you're a stream Apple TV,

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Google Play, Amazon iTunes. It'savailable now. Thank you time. What's
your next project, Kirby, Oh, I don't know. I think I'd
like to make a feature film.You'll make a Western seems like telled Peter
of Sheridan and all this Yellowstone ageand speak stuff is hot. I've lived
in Texas most of my life,and I think I'd like to do to
Western, but a kind of adifferent Western, as you know what I
mean. I do Texas style.Hey you got a ranch. This is

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a Circle Dash ranch. Are youstill at that? Yeah, that's outside
of Fort Stockton. My grandfather startedit back in nineteen nine. Real deal.
My wife and I. Yeah,well where we lived in Dallas for
thirty seven years and raised our threekits, and when they got grown and
we decided to semi retire, wemoved back after the ranch and we're out
there and I like it. Youknow, it's not for everybody, but

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I like it's it's a perfect foryou sight. It looks perfect for you.
Well, we can't wait to watchyou documentary. Congratulations on a great
piece of work. Thank you somuch, and thank you for having me.
It's Quinny Cantera with Kirby Warnock picksone of six