“It was a lot of trial and error with Dave – a lot of just trying to find out what worked, fine-tune it and then do it again”: Jimmie Vaughan on the Fabulous Thunderbirds’ Top 40 hit that got Al Bundy – and Hollywood’s – seal of approval

Jimmy Vaughan.

By the mid-’80s, Jimmie Vaughan had been hammering away with the Fabulous Thunderbirds for four under-the-radar albums, garnering a cult following.

This, along with the fact that Robert Cray and Alligator Records artists Johnny Winter, Roy Buchanan and Albert Collins (not to mention Jimmie’s little brother, Stevie Ray Vaughan) were enjoying success, meant that blues and blues-rock were on the rise in an otherwise sparkling metal- and synth-laden era.