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The Fabulous Thunderbirds: Struck Down (CD)

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The Fabulous Thunderbirds is a household name for anyone interested in contemporary blues and blues rock. This is the band that created classic albums like T-Bird Rhythm and Tuff Enuff, fuelled by hits like the title track and Wrap It Up. Tuff Enuff went platinum and sold more than a million copies. Led by founding member Kim Wilson, the Fabulous Thunderbirds have been nominated six times for Grammy Awards and more than 20 times for Blues Music Awards.

Formed in 1974, the band is celebrating their 50th anniversary with the release of their first new studio album in eight years - Struck Down. Struck Down features 9 new original songs co-written by Hamilton blues musicians Steve Strongman and Kim Wilson, as well as a stellar cover of Memphis Minnie's song Nothin' in Ramblin'. The album was produced by Kim Wilson, Steve Strongman and Glen Parrish, recorded in New Jersey and Hamilton and mixed by Shelly Yakus (John Lennon, U2, Tom Petty).

Guests include Billy Gibbons on the first single Payback Time and Bonnie Raitt, Taj Mahal, Keb' Mo' and Mick Fleetwood on the album's only cover song, Nothing In Rambling by Memphis Minnie. Standout tracks include the opening track Struck Down By The Blues with Steve Strongman on guitar, the Cajun-tinged Don't Make No Sense with Terrance Simien on accordion, Watcha Do To Me with Elvin Bishop and the wistful closing track Sideline.

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Fabulous Thunderbirds, The - Struck Down (CD) CD 1
01 Struck Down By The Blues (ft Steve Strongman) 3:41 The Fabulous Thunderbirds
02 Don’t Make No Sense (ft Terrance Simien) 2:47 The Fabulous Thunderbirds
03 Payback Time (ft Billy Gibbons) 3:35 The Fabulous Thunderbirds
04 Nothing in Rambling (ft Bonnie Raitt, Keb’ Mo,Taj Mahal & Mick Fleetwood) 3:55 The Fabulous Thunderbirds
05 Won’t Give Up 3:35 The Fabulous Thunderbirds
06 The Hard Way 4:06 The Fabulous Thunderbirds
07 Whatcha Do To Me (ft Elvin Bishop) 3:09 The Fabulous Thunderbirds
08 I’ve Got Eyes 4:07 The Fabulous Thunderbirds
09 That’s Cold 2:18 The Fabulous Thunderbirds
10 Sideline 4:03 The Fabulous Thunderbirds
The Fabulous Thunderbirds Austin developed into a hotbed of Texas blues during the 1970s.... more
"The Fabulous Thunderbirds"

The Fabulous Thunderbirds

Austin developed into a hotbed of Texas blues during the 1970s. Stevie Ray Vaughan was a major factor in its rise, but no more so than the Fabulous Thunderbirds, featuring Stevie's older brother Jimmie Vaughan on guitar and harpist/vocalist Kim Wilson. During their early years, the T-Birds were purists, digging their collective teeth into vintage Excello and other blues gems that only serious aficionados were aware of and conjuring up similar pungent originals.

Born January 6, 1951 in Detroit, Wilson grew up in Goleta, California and started wailing on harp at 17, enthralled by George ‘Harmonica' Smith, Lazy Lester, Little Walter, and James Cotton. Wilson ended up in Austin, where he met Vaughan (born in Dallas on March 20, 1951) and formed the T-Birds in 1974 with bassist Keith Ferguson and drummer Mike Buck. ‘Girls Go Wild,' their first Takoma/Chrysalis LP in ‘79, and their 1980 encore ‘What's The Word?' were largely dedicated to highly atmospheric (and high-energy) southern blues, Vaughan's uncommonly crisp, concise guitar work and Wilson's fat-toned harp excursions strongly to the fore. Fran Christina replaced Buck on drums in 1980, and the T-Birds stayed in the same basic groove with ‘Butt Rockin'' in '81 and ‘T-Bird Rhythm' the next year before taking a four-year studio hiatus. Preston Hubbard supplanted Ferguson on bass. 

When the quartet returned to recording action in 1986 on the major CBS Associated imprint, producer Dave Edmunds imparted more of a contemporary rock tinge to the T-Birds' sound, though blues remained their bedrock. Tuff Enuff, the rip-roaring title track of that first CBS album, was penned by Wilson and shot the T-Birds straight into the stratosphere, sailing to #10 pop as a single that spring (the album itself went platinum and maxed out at #13). The set also held their next hit, a remake of Sam & Dave's pulsating Wrap It Up

Vaughan exited the T-Birds in 1989 to form a duo with his brother Stevie Ray, but after releasing the album ‘Family Style,' Stevie Ray died in a 1990 helicopter crash. Since then, Vaughan has piloted a solo career. Wilson has kept the T-Birds alive with a series of guitar slingers: Duke Robillard, Kid Bangham, Kid Ramos, Nick Curran, Kirk Fletcher and Jon Moeller—and a fairly fluid rhythm section.

 

Bill Dahl

Chicago, Illinois

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Tracklist
Fabulous Thunderbirds, The - Struck Down (CD) CD 1
01 Struck Down By The Blues (ft Steve Strongman) 3:41
02 Don’t Make No Sense (ft Terrance Simien) 2:47
03 Payback Time (ft Billy Gibbons) 3:35
04 Nothing in Rambling (ft Bonnie Raitt, Keb’ Mo,Taj Mahal & Mick Fleetwood) 3:55
05 Won’t Give Up 3:35
06 The Hard Way 4:06
07 Whatcha Do To Me (ft Elvin Bishop) 3:09
08 I’ve Got Eyes 4:07
09 That’s Cold 2:18
10 Sideline 4:03