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(Wes Race Blues Spectator At Large ll-20-01)

Moving to (Gone to) Austin, Texas in '86, John began working at the Continental Club and at Antone's with Hook Herrera and the Hitchhikers, which included Alex Napier and Mike Buck. Having already travel'd overseas with Larry Davis' "Blues with the Girls" tour, he also tour'd nationwide and internationally, first with Paul Orta and then with Lavelle White. John and I first crossed paths in the early '90s, when he came through Wichita, Kansas, backing up Harmonica Man Lewis Cowdrey. Since then I've "Gone To Texas" myself and, living in Ft. Worth, get a chance a couple times a year to hear John and his group, the Stumble, smoke the house down in Ft. Worth at J.&J.'s Blues Bar or down at Joe`s Generic Bar or Babe's on 6th Street in Austin. For his "Gone To Texas" CD, John enlisted the aid of Austin's finest from producer Derek O'Brien on down, with Blues "Goners" like Mike Buck, Barry "Frosty" Smith, Larry Fulcher, Joel Guzman, Riley Osborne and Kim Wilson laying it on the line.æ All of the "Gone To Texas" cuts have a funky-tone-feel that oughta suit you to a tee. In early 200l I started praying fervently to have a new CD on my turntable that would satisfy my insatiable Blues listening lust. Thanks to John Mcvey and "Los Gone Ones," my prayers have been answered.

John McVey's - Gone To Texas