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Wilson performing in 1996
Kim Wilson (born 6 January 1951) is a U.S. blues singer and harmonica player. He is
best known as the lead vocalist and frontman for the The Fabulous Thunderbirds on
two hit songs of the 1980s; "Tuff Enuff" and
"Wrap It Up".
Career
Wilson was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1951,[1] but he
grew up in Goleta, California. He started with the blues in the late 1960s and was
tutored by people like George "Harmonica"
Smith, Luther
Tucker and Pee Wee Crayton, and was influenced by
swamp blues
harmonica players like Slim Harpo and Lazy Lester. Before he moved to Austin, Texas in 1974, he was the leader of
a band in Minneapolis,
Minnesota. In Austin he
formed The Fabulous Thunderbirds with guitarist Jimmie Vaughan.
Wilson continues to perform up to 300 dates per year at blues festivals and
clubs in America, Canada, and Europe, both as leader of The Fabulous
Thunderbirds and with the Kim Wilson Blues Revue.
His powerful style of blues harp playing has been described as
"loaded with the textures of a full-blown horn section."[2]
Discography
Solo
- Tigerman (1993)
- That's Life (1994)
- My Blues (1997)
- Smokin' Joint (2001)
- Looking for Trouble (2003)
- My Blues Sessions: Kim's Mix, Volume I (2006)
Guest
- Kid Ramos - Kid Ramos
- James Cotton -
& Friends
- Bonnie Raitt -
Road Tested
- 1995
- JW-Jones -
Bogart's Bounce (guest) 2002 / My Kind of Evil
(producer/guest) 2004
- Barrelhouse Chuck - Got My Eyes On You - 2007
- Omar Kent Dykes & Jimmy Vaughan - Jimmy Reed
Highway - 2007
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