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Gary Clark with special guest Doyle Bramhall Waterfront Blues Festival Tom McCall Waterfront Park Portland, OR. July 4, 2005 Recorded from KBOO FM, a local all volunteer radio station. There is some inherent reception problems scattered throughout these recordings. The station is not very powerful and the team had some problems on the first day of the festival getting everything "plugged in". All in all some great music with a few tolerable "blurps". FM > MD > HDD > CDWav (for splitting) > FLAC No set lists or art. Doyle Bramhall Singer, drummer and songwriter Doyle Bramhall has been at the heart of the new Texas blues scene since its birth in his native Dallas in the 1960s. He and Jimmie Vaughan transplanted that renaissance to Austin in the early ?70s with the band Storm, and Bramhall later wrote a number of signature songs for and with Stevie Ray Vaughan, including ?Change It,? ?Tightrope? and ?Life By The Drop.? And, yes, he is the father of the young blues guitar phenom, Doyle Bramhall II. Bramhall's own albums place him in the same artistic pantheon as the luminaries he has worked with. His 1994 debut, Bird Nest On The Ground, featuring both Vaughans and his son on guitar as well as the Memphis Horns, was a masterwork of grooving Texas blue-flame soul that spotlighted Bramhall?s hearty shout of a voice. Last year?s Fitchburg Street paid tribute to some of the influences on his singing and style and included a restored version of his original demo of ?Life By The Drop."

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