Vaughn Segers | Named After Texas Music Legend Stevie Ray Vaughn

For Texas singer-songwriter Vaughn Segers, country music wasn't just something he discovered—it was part of his identity from the very beginning. In fact, his parents named him after legendary Texas blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan, setting the stage for a life deeply rooted in music long before he ever picked up a guitar.

Raised in the heart of Texas, Segers has developed into one of the state's promising independent country artists, blending traditional country, Red Dirt grit, and authentic singer-songwriter storytelling. His music reflects the people, places, and experiences that define Texas life, delivering songs that are honest, heartfelt, and unmistakably country.

Now based in Dripping Springs, Texas, Vaughn has built a growing following through relentless touring, memorable live performances, and a songwriting style that connects with audiences on a personal level. Whether performing solo in an intimate songwriter round or entertaining festival crowds, his warm stage presence and genuine personality make every performance feel like a conversation with old friends.

His debut project, Stone Cold Country Gold, showcases his love for classic country while introducing listeners to a fresh voice with timeless influences. His songs explore themes of family, faith, hard work, heartbreak, and the everyday stories that make country music so relatable.

Vaughn has become a regular performer across Texas and beyond, earning invitations to respected songwriter events, including the 30th Annual Key West Songwriters Festival, where he joined some of Nashville's finest writers in celebrating the craft of songwriting. Those appearances continue to cement his reputation as one of the rising talents in today's Texas country scene.

Although his career is still in its early chapters, Vaughn Segers is proving that authenticity never goes out of style. Inspired by the musical legacy that gave him his name, he is creating a legacy of his own—one song, one stage, and one unforgettable performance at a time.

When he sat down with Byron Duffin on the Musical Miles Podcast, Vaughn shared the stories behind his music, the influence of his Texas roots, and the journey of building a career while honoring the traditions of the artists who inspired him. It's a conversation country music fans won't want to miss.

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SPEAKER_02 0:07

Well the bottle kept on turning and you never turned around Rand them red tail eyes Out of this one horse town I kept on drinking and caught up all the guys said boy she got away from me so let's drink away the night Bartender wipe these tears off of my table Got somebody's coming I can't be so down Won't be crying like a jukebox if I'm able to hear a country song and drink all night long with my friends Well the whiskey has started burning the more young man we drown so let's drink till the cows come home or till you come back around Partender wipe these tears off of my table I got somebody's coming and I can't be so down Won't be crying like a jukeboxy five to hear a country song and drink on along with my friends bartender tears off of my table Gas somebody's coming and I can't be so down won't be crying like a jukebox if I'm able to hear a country songs drink on along with my friends Hell to hear a country song drink on along with my friend Will the bottle kept on turning you never turned it around awesome awesome von Seegers welcome to musical miles podcast hey great song love it we got to catch your set we are here in in Key West Florida beautiful Key West absolutely if you want to put that away in the case we are here at the Key West what is this Sunset Pier yes is yeah ocean Key Resort Sunset Pier Yeah what a what a beautiful place we actually caught we were just talking Vaughn is from Key West or excuse me we're in Key West Vaughn that Vaughn is from Dripping Springs Texas we were just talking about that we've been to the music festival there or the songwriter festival there uh got to interview JD Graham but also Walt Wilkins was playing there and you know funny is story enough we saw Walt Wilkins the first time we ever saw him was on this pier. Really? Yeah during Mile Zero Fest. Yeah that is awesome yeah it was on this end of the pier so anyway it was cool yeah so it's funny how those things kind of go full circle I know full circle that was before we actually started the podcast because we've only been doing this less than two years. I gotcha yeah so but um and I'm trying to remember how this all came about you getting agreeing to be on the podcast whether I reached did I reach out to you I think you reached out okay on Instagram that's what it was I saw that you were playing here I thought you were play saw you were playing and wanted to sit down with you and get a chance to visit yes sir we got a little bit of background music going on which is mood music but we hope it gets better. Actually funny story on the mood background mood music we did the the uh dripping spring songwriter festival and then we went to San Marcos to interview Gracie York you know yeah I know and Gracie was playing at the song at the at the music festival there at San Marcos and we it was sold out we couldn't get a ticket to go in so I texted her she came out and we interviewed her on the on a bench in front of a Mexican restaurant across the street wow and you could hear Pat Green yeah playing in the background for the mood music so anyway we've had some uh unique situations most of them we've been able to edit the background out we hope we can tone this one down anyway but uh so tell us is this your first time to the Key West Fest this is my second time second year in a row I uh got invited back this year for the 30th anniversary shout out uh Mitch Ballard and Kristen Townsend from BMI Austin they're my uh reps over there perfect and uh yeah just happy to be here uh second time in the Keys well it's cool we've been coming to the Keys now for I think this is our fifth fifth trip um we came the first time we came was just because we wanted to come to Key West yeah we drove the the seven mile bridge we drove down from Miami this time we flew direct in uh but we've been here a few times we've driven it and flown in been here for mile zero fest and which is always great but um anyway we like this time of year here a little better than miles zero fest weather because it's it's been cold the last two years that's what someone else was saying earlier about you know the different weather when you go for mile zero I think it's in January it is and then you come here a little bit and you're getting all of the summer vibes yeah we're here in April it's gonna be uh first of June coming or excuse me May we're here in April first of May it's all runs together right yes sir um yeah it's funny we made a little post this morning about being here for the festival and uh you know Gary Braun I do not Mickey the motor cars I um cool story about the bronze I use Cody Braun for fiddle on my yes uh on my release song by yourself flowers awesome and so I I it was I was thinking brawn as a different spelling but yeah I know all the brawn no so so Gary lives in Butah yeah and so we we interviewed Gary at his place but we're from Idaho they're from Idaho right so they have the Braun Brothers reunion in August it's a uh three-day music festival and they always bring a lot of uh artists up there a lot of Texas artists and of course Mickey and the motor cars are really considered an Austin band as well as even though Mickey uh lives when he's not on the road he's back east with his wife and kids right um or they stop in Idaho every once in a while but Willie and Cody those guys all have places up there and they come up and their dad Muzzy's been on our podcast and so that's good anyway they're a great family but but uh anyway yeah we've we've got some good connections down there and we love Texas tell me about you though uh how did you get started in the music deal yeah so I think music was always a part of me as a person uh growing up my parents always loved uh music and would always play it and you know sing along in the car and take me to live music shows and everything and I'm actually named after Stevie Ray Vaughn.

SPEAKER_03 7:16

That's where I get my my name from and my middle name is Tyler after Steven Tyler of Aerosmith. So all my brothers and I are named after uh famous rock stars and so you could kind of tell from an early age that music might have been in my uh you know path of life but after I graduated high school um I started doing open mics my dad said you know just get up there and sing one song sure and I played uh one song down at a little bar in Drip called Hudson's on Mercer Street okay and uh played a Parker McCollum song and that was where it all started I fell in love with the whole the stage thing playing on stage and people hearing it and then I started writing songs and fell in love with that as well.

SPEAKER_02 7:58

Cool cool well speaking of Parker first time we ever saw Parker was at the Braun Brothers reunion really yeah about 10 years ago he showed up there and uh him and Mickey I think actually wrote um which one is it uh no no no I'll think of it my producers back there tell me what I gotcha uh but anyway they wrote a song together and we heard him play that song yeah on stage with they had him come on stage just for the couple of songs kind of a guitar pulled so um but anyway yeah so we've been on uh really really love Parker and got to interview Josh Morris do you know Josh yes sir uh and because he does a podcast as well so we got to interview him when he came to Idaho and he actually wrote a song with Parker recently Jared Morris why am I saying Josh sorry yeah sorry Jared he's got a cool podcast yeah he does yeah the Jared Morris vibe and uh yeah he he's interviewed a lot of cool people so we we we saw he was coming to Idaho so I reached out to his people and they set it up we got to interview him right almost and uh but he wrote a song um Big Sky with part of the new uh the new album yeah so anyway yeah it all kind of ties together I tell everybody give us five minutes we'll connect the dots right and I feel like the Texas music scene where I'm from everything is connected in some sort of way I know a lot of people uh here from Texas are that originated in Texas and moved to Nashville and they're coming down to sing their songs I just love it it's a it's a strong scene you can kind of tell the difference from the Texas scene is very different from the Nashville scene and we've done we've hang hung in both places uh we love the red dirt music right so Cody Canada and the departed which he was one of our earlier interviews on this podcast and so um and then to see him get back together with Cross Canadian ragweed and make their boys from Oklahoma return. Feel jealous I didn't get tickets for that you know yeah I can't breathe was the song that Mickey wrote with Parker yeah sorry about that sorry Parker sorry Mickey uh yeah so but but uh you're you're in a very we call it a target rich environment for musicians and music right because there's some very famous musicians live in dripping springs oh yeah uh isn't that where Ray Wiley Hubbard lives?

SPEAKER_03 10:08

I believe a lot of them live in the the hill country surrounding because I mean dripping springs is about 30 to 40 minutes west of Austin and so if you're trying to get away from the city and you can commute there's a lot of hill country gray area sure in the hills yeah but a lot of people Jimmy Vaughn lives out uh near there I've met him a couple times that's Stevie Ray's brother now I love I'm a big fan of Stevie Ray myself um you know Texas Flood is uh he's just such a great guitarist probably in my opinion one of the greatest that ever lived I'm a little biased but I think he is the greatest ever lived I think you're I think you're probably right yeah I understand Paul Simon lives out there too in dripping springs area Wimberly Wimberley Wimberley yeah yeah and maybe that's where maybe that's where Ray Wiley lives.

SPEAKER_02 10:52

Ray Wiley we're big Ray Wiley fans as well we've seen him multiple times you just you just live in a cool area I told Miss Shanda the producer back here I said if I could live anywhere in Texas it would be in Wimberley dripping springs area it's real pretty and you know everybody there is really cool yeah a lot of places to check out and for music there's a lot of spots to play um you know around there breweries wineries distilleries uh there's a there's an artist under every rock in Texas I'm telling you there's a musician and they're all great you know people ask us when we were out there so would you know this guy you need to interview this guy this guy this guy we're like we haven't heard of him but what's new I mean there's a bazillion people here we haven't heard of right you just got done playing with Danielle Johnson.

SPEAKER_03 11:36

I did yeah what a talented beautiful young lady she is I invited her to join us on the podcast this weekend sometime we hope she does as well she was a Phil we were gonna have three dudes in uh that round and then one of them canceled so she got to play and then another one wasn't able to make it so it's just us but I think it was a great song swap back and forth.

SPEAKER_02 11:56

No I think you guys did right we just caught the tail end of it because we were interviewing another artist that was playing over at the southernmost beach this morning. Oh that's fun I've been there so yeah that's a cool place we uh actually saw a couple of Texans play there well one Oaky and one Texas John Bauman played there during Miles Zero Fest and uh Brian White from the Damn Quails okay and that facilitated an interview five years later with Brian at his place in Oklahoma because he was crazy enough to give me his cell phone number right I have your number now too so you're trouble.

SPEAKER_03 12:27

No we uh we we love to be able to connect with artists and when you you know when when you drop a new album or or a new single or an EP whatever let us know because we help promote that to our followers so of course anyway what uh I like to ask a couple of questions um if you could oh well first of all what song do you wish you had written oh man I would say I'm listening to a lot of John Mayer right now he's my favorite favorite artist um anything off of his you know younger younger albums there's a song that he wrote called uh covered in rain okay and uh it's on one of his first live albums I would say that song is it's great and his guitar playing is awesome I'd also say uh more songwriter I actually got to see this guy my buddy lost the night opened for Pat Green we're talking about Pat earlier love he has a song called Crazy yeah and I think that is that's top ten of my favorite songs I wish I would have been in the room when he wrote that or written that song we've probably seen Pat close to 10 times eight or ten times yeah everywhere from here we've totally Boise Idaho Idaho Falls Idaho Jackson Hole Wyoming you know and so got to meet him in Jackson Hole and so yeah I've been a big fan of Pat Green for a long time.

SPEAKER_02 13:47

So you also opened I see you you had opened for Kevin Fowler yeah that was my first ever gig was it really yes sir yeah that's cool I don't know I've I've seen Kevin play live he was at the BBR two years ago and uh we did not get the chance to interview him that year but um yeah him and uh Roger Krieger play together a lot those borachos those borachos two drunk guys two drunk guys yeah yeah they they ought to be in Key West yeah he's a good he's a good time uh that was my first gig I you know just started getting into music and I knew one of my putty's dads was the stage manager and got me on the bill so I played a little 30 minute acoustic set yeah shaking played you know some Parker McCollum songs and and everything and um but he what I noticed about him was he was so chill backstage right and then immediately turned it on the energy yeah as soon as he got out and that's where you know I was like man you gotta turn it on and you're entertaining everybody so I love I I follow him on social media and I see a lot of his posts and he's pretty pretty gets pretty amped up. Love that about him uh once again they he was with Roger when they played uh the BBR and and they put on a great show um what uh okay so those are your songs you wish you'd written or at least been in the room who would you like to work with this is a two-part question okay dead or alive all right well both dead and alive so you pick which one first I would say alive John Mayer okay like I said before I've just you're gonna have to come to Montana because he spends most of his time up there doesn't hear in a livingston or somewhere up there they just bought a studio you know in LA down in Hollywood him and I'm trying to remember who who invested in it but it was an old studio it was the old um uh I'll think of it here in a minute or the producer will tell me what it was anyway they just bought it and remodeled it and so he's spending some time there but that's awesome so John Mayer alive yeah I'd say John Mayer um I just remember like listening to him in the car with my mom when I was little and then I rediscovered his songs and they felt so nostalgic and then I really deep dove into his songwriting I mean he's my favorite artist guitar player singer writer all the whole thing so for a lot of people he's extremely talented yeah and he's and he's and he's is and I'm sure his catalog is Jim Henson studio it was the Jim Henson but before that so that's the it was Jim Hanson studio when they bought it but prior to that it was Chaplin Chaplin Charlie Chaplin theater so it's old and it's a really cool compound I watched a uh documentary on it recently so um okay so John Mayer is alive dead I think I know the answer to this but you tell me it's gonna be Steve Steer Avon okay um just uh you know you you have to say that talk to him or he's gonna come back and haunt you I know right and I think my parents would be disappointed answer oh if I said Steve Von yeah sure um but I mean you know growing up yeah my name is Vaughn my parents would always play him and then um I really started took a deep dive into his music and yeah everything and it's it's just so crazy what they were doing at a young age oh my gosh and what they were coming up with. Yeah um well and you know he was he he was in self-destruct mode which a lot of artists do get in that and then he cleaned up his act and then the tie in a helicopter crash what a crazy story right believes a legacy though oh yeah what you're able to what he was able to do in such a short time right um well we I talked to a lot of artists about that about bands or artists who who had these little tiny windows Jimi Hendrix was one yeah uh um I mean there's just so many of them but guys like like Stevie Ray that made such an impact but even the Beatles right their window was only this big yeah I mean like 64 to 71 I think when they broke up and there was so Zeppelin you know there was so much great music in there I just saw oh I just saw a deal that uh what did I tell you it was Peter Frampton played in oh what was the name of the Yardbirds did you know that oh yeah I um I love I heard about that where it was you know Clapton and Jimmy Page and um Jeff Beck oh there was a all great guitarists and great musicians at one time or another yeah and then broke off and did their own thing but I just think that's so awesome. Yeah well and you think about the impact that they had on music and I mean like Stevie Ray Von I mean how many how many guys including yourself that tried to emulate that that style of music they said he would play until his fingers bled or and he would go super glue the blisters back on. Super glue the tips back and his hands were black from the strings 60 to 70 was 10 years of the Beatles which is still that's that I mean that's really a small window when you when you think about what hits my god albums just one after the other after the other so well I think the cool thing about music is that music brings people together. Yes it it allows us to meet and make new friends right and to share the stories um and and our love of music and then music has a huge healing power.

SPEAKER_03 19:05

Amen yeah would you would you could you have any stories like that that I mean I would just say that's what I've learned um playing music and like I said when my first time getting up on a stage I could feel it and like if I what I was doing was right or wrong or if somebody liked it um I kind of transitioned that into my songwriting. So if somebody can hear a song of mine and feel a certain way or if it can help a single person that's really my goal with the songwriting part is you know can it make someone feel happy or reminisce on somebody that they lost or right you know feel this certain way want to go have a good time. Sure. If you're if you're feeling sad I feel like that's where music can move people and help people.

SPEAKER_02 19:44

Yeah so agree well so what is what's your what's your goal you I mean you're pretty young what are you 25? I'm 21. Oh my god I just turned 21 in December wow yes I got socks older than you so but what so where do you want to be what you you want to become a hit songwriter or do you want to write hit songs and perform them yourself?

SPEAKER_03 20:04

I think I want to write hit songs and play them but I'm alright with writing songs for other people. Now have you done much collaboration? Yes sir yeah I uh over the last year I got invited to Key West last year in April okay you weren't even old enough to drink yeah yeah but you did anyway yeah you know it's a little gray area in there but but anyway um I think in this last year from Key West to Key West I really learned more about the music business side and um the co-writing I would you know I started co-writing every week I would say in the Austin scene now taking trips up to Nashville and sure trying to meet everybody there.

SPEAKER_02 20:41

And you're and you're picking you're you're some great guys like Cody Braun to play fiddle on your I know on your on your recordings.

SPEAKER_03 20:47

It's awesome.

SPEAKER_02 20:48

Now those guys those guys actually did we have another songwriter friend that's he's an artist but songwriter uh Calin Beasley who we've interviewed a few times I don't know if you know Kaylin. I've heard of him yeah he's from Cody Wyoming but Kaylin uh Cody uh recorded his album I think he produced his album for him so he came down from Wyoming great musician great dude and um well they're slowing down Reckless Kelly's kind of I think you know they they they hit a million miles right by the time they were 16 right so my producer texted me and the guy I was recording with Mr. David Beck down in uh San Mark Martindale Texas okay and uh he said hey we're gonna have Cody Braun play fiddle and I go Cody Braun like Reckless Kelly Cody Braun yep and so that was surreal and it was pretty cool and you know it sounds real good on the record but awesome well they're good guys and and uh of of the three of the four brothers I've spent a little bit of time hung out with Mickey and Gary and and and Cody and I've not I've not even met officially met Willie been in the same room with him and but got to hang out with dad and mom joanne and they're just great Muzzy and Joanne are such great people and they put on A hell of a festival. If you get the chance, come to Iowa and check it out. Because we'll be there. Yeah. That's the one we put it on our schedule. We're making damn sure we're there. Yeah. So well, cool. So where do you go from here?

SPEAKER_03 22:11

What do you got going on? This week I played my my two rounds. I actually played I think six or five or six songs at this one. Okay. I don't got anything on the schedule for this week. I'm just I've got some family and some friends here. So we're gonna enjoy the music and the ocean and hang out like that, man.

SPEAKER_02 22:29

Perfect, perfect. And then when you get back home, what do you got going on?

SPEAKER_03 22:32

Yeah, I've got some uh exciting shows coming up. Um I've been working on building a full band, and you know, I've been solo duo acoustic for two years now and trying to build up the band shows to get the right guys. But we've got a fun gig in Austin on May 15th at the Far Out Lounge. Okay, and then we're playing this uh local music festival in Driftwood, Texas, called Chigger Fest. Oh wow. It's a uh it's researched for brain cancer. Okay, and it's because all of those chigger bugs on the ground they mow it down, they mow it down and get it treated. But I've been in Texas and been ate up by the chickers. Yeah, so that's all good there, but uh, it's just a fun local charity event.

SPEAKER_02 23:11

What tell me tell me a venue that your favorite venue you've played and one you want to play?

SPEAKER_03 23:18

Yeah, I'd say favorite venue that I played, um, it happens to be Hudson's on Mercer because I that's where I started. I host an open mic there every Thursday night. Cool. Um and so it's kind of felt like home. Chad and Natasha Hudson uh own the bar and they were musicians, they are musicians still. Chad was a songwriter in Nashville for you know 10-15 years. Sure. And uh he's kind of been a great mentor to me and teaching me the ropes and everything, and each side of the business performing, and so that's where I've played a lot of my you know live shows, whether it be like songwriter rounds or you know, solo, duo, um, stuff like that. So I'd say that's the my favorite venue that I've played. What's on your goal?

SPEAKER_02 24:00

Top of the list.

SPEAKER_03 24:01

I want to play Red Rocks. I think Red Rocks would be awesome. Been there. Yeah, I've got to be a lot of things.

SPEAKER_02 24:07

Saw Turnpike Troubadours there, saw uh Shane Smith and the Saints. Shane Smith and the Saints. We've seen Shane probably 10 times as well. Love them. More than that, 12 times, Miss Shanda says. Uh we uh I got to see 49 Winchester there. I saw two big concerts two days apart at Red Rocks. Love that place. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 24:30

What about Green? Yeah, I'd say Green Hall is the first one. I mean, that's gotta be bucket list forming. Yeah, um, getting into the band stuff and you know, bigger opportunities, but you've got to throw a grand old opery on there.

SPEAKER_02 24:42

Oh, yeah, no.

SPEAKER_03 24:42

We gotta go stand in the Whitewater amphitheater and Ryman. Yeah, the Ryman. I mean, all these all these historic iconic spots. Luke and Bach. I haven't been out there.

SPEAKER_02 24:53

We got to actually do, I told you we we we interviewed three artists inside Green Hall, and we got to interview one of the bar managers, and then they told the story about the Willie Door in the back, and just and so we feature some uh band or excuse me, venues. We also went out to Devil's Backbone. I would love to interview her. Yeah, I've been out there, but I couldn't get an interview out of them.

SPEAKER_03 25:13

So Songwriters Night There. Yeah, there's so many coolerly and yeah, so many cool venues up there.

SPEAKER_02 25:20

You're you're a lucky kid. So you've got a lot of great influences and a lot of great artists to look up to and to work with. So we wish you the very best in your career. Yeah, we we appreciate you taking time to sit out with us and kind of share a little tiny bit of your story and a little bit of uh of uh what we can look forward to from you. And uh anyway, thanks for joining us. Thank you for having me. Yeah, y'all enjoy the uh the weather and the music and everything down here. We definitely will. Hey, for Musical Miles Podcast, I'm your host, Byron Duff, and we'll see you somewhere down the road. Adios.

SPEAKER_00 25:57

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