Your mid-week, martini-worthy photo image

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So, what makes a Texas-style martini? Not sure but if you're in Austin, Lubbock, College Station, El Paso or San Antonio and you're enjoying it straight up, make sure the juke box has got Stevie's "Stang's Swang".

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Our favorite guitar player of all-time as opposed to the greatest (Jimi). How can that be? We'll explain sometime.




So as not wanting to start a Youtube commenter-like holy war with respect to lengendary axe-men, let's get right to it.





Ladies and Gentlemen, from Dallas, Texas, it's Stevie Ray Vaughan (and Double Trouble) performing perhaps the greatest non-lyrical blues/jazz ballad you will ever hear, "Lenny".








(and judging from the style of dress of the folks in the audience, we'll peg this circa 1984)

P.S. The cleaned-up studio version can be heard, here.

Hopefully, his speaking fee was guaranteed

So, what do Steve Smith of the Carolina Panthers, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Milton Friedman have in common? They are all the objects of unqualified man crushes here at BwD headquarters.

With respect to Friedman, than for no other reason than possessing the stones to say that the physicians of America were part of a competition-restricting monopoly... at the Mayo Clinic!

Friedman explains how government control of licensing of physicians drives up the cost of healthcare and puts the doctors on the spot in this lecture on the eve of Reagan in 1978.



"Would you first mind telling me what other great reforms of government have achieved their objective?"

Friedman frames this against the larger backdrop of moving ever more closely to a fully collectivist society.

H/T: Carpe Diem

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Want to get a furious YouTube commenter war of words going? Post a video of this guy and then comment that Hendrix was better.

We believe this performance was from the 1985 Montreux Jazz Festival where he and his band mates received a much warmer welcome when they returned as conquering heroes than they did at the ’82 Festival where they were booed as the crass blues and rock’n’roll American upstarts (The ’82 Festival was where David Bowie discovered him and had him play on his “Let’s Dance” album).

Ladies and Gentleman, from Austin, Texas it's they late great Stevie Ray Vaughn and Double Trouble performing a two-fer, “Scuttle Buttin’” and “Say What!”


P.S. We give Hendrix the nod only because he was first. Jimi was so far ahead of his time, 40 years on and people still haven’t caught up. But as far technical mastery of their craft, play both guys’ version of “Voodoo Chile” back to back and we think you’ll agree that Stevie holds a decided edge.

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We'e going to try something a little different this week. We've been called in to help out our friend Justin who is currently (not) enjoying his evacucation from south Texas so just spin down the dial to here if you will to enjoy some great music from one of Texas' very own.