PLAYS BLUES, BALLADSAudio Mixer: Jared Tuten. Recording information: Top Hat Studios, Austin, TX; Wire Recording, Austin, TX. Photographer: Todd V. Wolfson. With the Fabulous Thunderbirds, guitarist Jimmie Vaughan became one of the architects of the '70s Austin blues scene. He was, and remains, a concise stringbender whose trebly, staccato solos service the song, never extending past their natural quitting point. The guitarist's solo albums maintained that approach and