Various Artists - "Full Time Lovers, Songs The Fabulous Thunderbirds Taught Us" (WAILCD 02 and a Half)

I've made this comp about a year or so back if my memory serves me well but I didn't posted it at the time because of the following two reasons: I didn't have all songs in FLAC (still don't - so not all songs ripped by me) and I've ran out of ideas for the back cover (all you get is this so-so front sleeve). The whole thing/project was to gather up all Rhythm and Blues, Soul and Funky sides the original Fabulous Thunderbirds line-up have covered (plus some more, I mostly focused on things Wilson/Vaughn touched later), and in this at least I succeed. I really love the T-Birds man! Their manic fusion of sweaty rock & roll, electric Texas barbecue of Chicago blues, nasty Memphis Soul and Louisiana Zydeco was (still is actually) a very good reason (if not, the only) for having any respect on white skin rhythm & blues gangs. Boy, even Muddy Waters was impressed back then when he caught one of the band's first shows in 1975 and hyped them Thunderbirds boys to club owners and interviewers across the country, loudly! Anyway, you got it I guess already. So, this is exactly what its title says. A 26 song gathering of all original sides the archetypal T-Birds chose and recorded (from Lazy Lester to Slim Harpo and from Sam & Dave to Bobby Patterson) for their first six albums, hope you dig it!

The Fabulous Thunderbirds - "Girls Go Wild" (Chrysalis, 1979)

I can't see really why people go nuts for Stevie Ray Vaughan. I mean OK, may he was an A grade guitarist, but it never worked for me. Too fanfare and all things i hate generally on the "white blues" bands of the last 30 years, gathered under his wings. More pretentious and poseur than anyone could handle. When i was a little kid, got busted from the hype of SRV and got two albums. Even then, it was difficult to like his Hendrix like mannerisms and by the time heard him destroy (the bad way & with the help of Dick Dale for crisshake!)  "Pipeline", got a marker and once and for all deleted him from my mind's database!
I always  though dug his brother, Jimmy. And yes people, this one is the right one! He really got a huge admiration and respect for Rhythm & Blues, he really played them simple and powerfully and most of all, created a band that at the time (lemme think, why not even today?) were a sunbeam on the hodgepodge! Yes, the Fabulous Thunderbirds got all right elements for picking on a band that played the blues even if their skin were Caucasian. A manic fusion of Rock & Roll, R&B and Blues, with a wailin' harmonica and a tough enough rhythm section. Kim Wilson is another reason to pick on them. Cool as fuck and stormy, lead a band that in a way or another, kick started the whole 80s 'blues revival' thing. Don't know if we should blame T-Birds for this, but one thing's for sure, this debut has enough fire to warm up a city in the winter! If you haven't done it already, well give it a play. They sure blast your speakers off!
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Girls Go WILD!!!