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Idgy Vaughn
12+ albums
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Idgy Vaughn was born in Chillicothe, Missouri ("The Home of Sliced Bread"), to a non-musical hog farming family on the same day that Jimmy Hoffa disappeared. Her folks later lost their farm and moved to a Mississippi River town. Idgy taught herself to play guitar and became the only songwriter she knew. In 2001, she packed up her small daughter and, sight unseen, moved to Austin, Texas, buoyed by a tax refund check and a bunch of songs nobody ever heard. A single mother and new to the scene in "The Live Music Capitol of the World," Idgy got by waitressing at a truckstop a few miles south of town. Her first break came when she won the Kerrville New Folk Songwriting Competition. A second stroke of luck arrived via the Texas Lottery, when a friend from the truckstop won a million dollars and loaned her just enough to make her first record. Her debut album, ORIGIN STORY, was recorded entirely in Austin with a dream team of all-star musicians. Bob Harris from BBC Radio 2 stumbled across Idgy during the recording process and immediately began airing her songs across Great Britain and Europe. It garnered an amazing critical response in Great Britain and the U.S., as well as nominations for Album of the Year, Producer of the Year for Paul Pearcy, and Best New Band at the 2006 Austin Music Awards. The album spent 11 weeks on the national Americana chart, with the unique distinction of being the only self-released record on the chart at the time. National Public Radio made "Good En
