Doyle Bramhall II

I love their songs.

Um, and then another one is Doyle Bramhall II.

He's awesome.

Kind of...

So like, when I went to the music shop, literally I was trying to play it like you are.

I was, I was holding it, but the- it was like a Doyle Bramhall.

Yeah

Like, the strings were upside down or whatever, and the guy's like, "Bro, you have to flip it." So I flip it, and this hand, the fretting hand felt fine, but it was the picking.

Recorded live in Japan in 1990, that was Todd Rundgren with Real Man.

Moving along, after Stevie Ray Vaughan's death, his Double Trouble rhythm section, Chris Layton and Tommy Shannon, joined Doyle Bramhall II and Charlie Sexton to form Arc Angels.

The name came from the Austin rehearsal complex, which is where they jammed.

This was the first song Bramhall and Sexton wrote together.

But that was the opening, uh, the second night.

So the three of them, uh, you know, Doyle Bramhall II came out with Susan and Derek, and then, um, uh, yeah, they, they did the Crossroads riff, and Bill Murray sang it [laughs] with them.

Just for a couple, just like a little, a little bl- I actually didn't monitor the-

Just, just the chorus.

They...

And it's just really-

And, and Doyle, Doyle Bramhall II, I mean, he was all over the place, and his c- he is...

This was my first time to get to see him, and so the way he has, like, the turban and the kimono, and when he, like, flows across the stage, like, he is such a presence.

It didn't really work out too well.

And, uh, um, uh, Chris and Tommy had, uh, had met, uh, uh, I think, um, they had a practice room at a place called The Ark, and they had run into, uh, Charlie Sexton and Doyle Bramhall, uh, over there at The Ark.

And, uh, they would just start jamming together, you know, and, uh, and they formed The Archangels.

And, uh, and, uh, they seemed to be really happy with that.

It kind of put me down the path of wanting to take like guitar playing more seriously.

So Stevie, and then I, Got into Jimmy and then who are their heroes? OK, got into like check out Albert King, Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, of course, all these and then more modern guys like Doyle Bramhall and Mayer and Mike Landau, Robin Ford.

Then I was like, some of these guys get kind of jazzy.

Like, what's I should get into that? Joe Pass was Montgomery.

the posthumous release by the late great icon of modern music, Steve Cropper.

I have Keb Moe, Jennifer McNess, Doyle Bramhall II, Laura Chavez, Jason Ritchie and Bad Kind, Chris O'Leary, Ray Beatles' Coop Trio, Mike Wheeler, Harold Davenport, Danielle Nicole, and this from the brand new release from Dustin Arbuckle's latest band, Dustin Arbuckle and the Damnations, Fight Like the Devil.

Well, if you're into the devil's music, you've come to the right place.

This is Blues with a Feel.

You took all my money, my best friends.

Phew.

Also in that set, a young man that has the blues world sitting up and taking very good notice right now, Harold Youngrell Davenport, I be trying, and second-generation singer, songwriter and guitar slinger Doyle Bramhall II from Antone's 50th Presents Chicago Bounce, one of a number of releases celebrating Clifford Antone's record company Antone's Records in 2026.

Get me back my wig.