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Tier 2 · legacy legend
Maurice John Vaughn
Person · male · United States · born 1952 · recording since 1986
American musician
Also known as Maurice John Vaughan · Морис Джон Вон
Timeline
7 events▣ Album 5◦ Birth 1★ Debut release 1
1950s
1980s
· Debut release
Debut release: I Got Money
First documented Album in the MusicBrainz discography.
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1990s
2000s
Biography
English biography204 words · 2 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1179706949
Biography
Maurice John Vaughn (born May 10, 1952) is an American blues musician from Chicago, Illinois, United States. He is a guitarist, saxophonist, keyboardist and singer.
Biography
Vaughn began playing professionally in 1968 as a saxophonist in Chicago R&B groups. He recorded with the Chosen Few in 1976, and played and recorded with Phil Guy, went on tour in Canada in 1979. He played as a sideman with Luther Allison, Son Seals, Junior Wells, Valerie Wellington, and A.C. Reed.
His debut solo record was 1984's Generic Blues Album, released in plain white packaging on his own Reecy Records record label; Alligator Records reissued it in 1987. In the 1990s, Vaughn played with Detroit Junior, but spent much of his time working in A&R for Appaloosa Records, and produced albums by Shirley Johnson, Zoom, Maxine Carr, B.J. Emery, and Velvet McNair. Vaughn and his band backed up Detroit Junior on the latter's two releases on Blue Suit Records, Turn Up The Heat (1995) and Take Out The Time (1997). In 1994, his song "(Everything I Do) Got To Be Funky" was released on the soundtrack for the film, Major League II. The song was also a part of his 1993 release, In the Shadow of the City.
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 4 | 24.3th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 5 | 78.9th |
| Studio albums | 5 | 84.6th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 7 | 82.6th |
| Recording span (years) | 15 | 35.8th |
| Genres | 2 | 74th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (5 release groups · 5 studio albums)
Albums · 5
1986 · studio album
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Tracklist · 10 tracks · 50:21
A1Boogie All Night5:25A2Help Me Spend My Gold6:04A3My Buddy Buddy Friends4:07A4This Little Voice3:39A5Big Boss Man5:44B1Mojo Hand4:30B2Everything I do Got to Be Funky5:55B3I Got Money5:38B4Computer Took My Job6:19B5Mojo on Me3:001988 · studio album
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Tracklist · 10 tracks · 50:55
1I Done Told Ya!4:552Garbage Man Blues5:203Girl Don't Live Here4:304Generic Blues5:405Wolf Bite2:516I Got Money7:207Computer Took My Job6:158Keep On Sleeping6:109Without That Bread3:3010Nothing Left To Believe In4:241993 · studio album
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Tracklist · 12 tracks · 56:09
1Can't Nobody4:382I Want to Be Your Spy5:353(Everything I Do) Got to Be Funky5:204Blood Red Sky6:365Game Over4:576Love Bone3:587Treat Me So Bad2:348Watching Your Watch4:549Eager Beaver3:1610Are You Satisfied?5:4111Suicide Is Not the Way3:5712Small Town Baby4:43A.C. Reed et Maurice John Vaughn
1993 · studio album
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Tracklist · 10 tracks · 50:25
1My Buddy Buddy Friend4:092This Little Voice3:403Boogie All Night5:254Big Boss Man5:445Help Me Spending My Gold6:046I Got Money5:387Everything I Do Got to Be Funky5:568Mojo Hand4:299Computer Took My Job6:1910Mojo on Me3:012001 · studio album
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Tracklist · 13 tracks · 51:33
1Talking to Each Other With the Music5:102Dangerous Road4:303Two Can Play That Game3:024Love Abuse6:215Mama: She Believed in Me3:186In the Midnight Hour2:517Stop and Take a Drink4:038I Don't Care5:529Lady in the Box2:4510The Pigeon2:4311Shoo Fly Shoo2:3212The Telephone's Running My Life4:1513I Can't Stand Being Alone4:11
Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Maurice John Vaughn head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 4 | 24.3th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 5 | 78.9th |
| Studio albums | 5 | 84.6th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 7 | 82.6th |
| Recording span (years) | 15 | 35.8th |
| Genres | 2 | 74th |
Awards & honours
Where this record comes from
aliases/urls—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/bc3543e6-038e-427a-97c7-f4ce4361016bdiscography—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/bc3543e6-038e-427a-97c7-f4ce4361016bcore—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3300958genre—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3300958seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_John_Vaughnbiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_John_Vaughn
Why this artist is in the database
- List of blues musicians — rank #100
| 1952 | | Illinois | Chicago blues |
Tier rule: genre canon: blues
Image: no portrait (not displayed: the licence credit is missing)
Wikidata: Q3300958 · MusicBrainz: bc3543e6-038e-427a-97c7-f4ce4361016b
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