Kim Wilson News

When I first hit the Fort back in '78, Robert Ealey's New Bluebird Night Club seemed like a hipster utopia, where TCU kids and their parents - parents who might have partied at the Skyliner Ballroom in the early '60s - rubbed shoulders with hippies, punks, Kim Wilson wannabes sporting nascent soul patches, and Lake Como neighborhood folk.

This week's celebrity birthdays: Today: Country singer Earl Scruggs is 86. Actress Bonnie Franklin is 66.

New Village Arts Theatre presents a live blues concert and CD recording in our intimate 100-seat venue.

If I had a faster car, a richer girlfriend or even one with a job, here's where I'd be lurking in the back this week: Less Than Jake and Fishbone at House of Blues in Hollywood .

Tonight The Fabulous Thunderbirds light up Rams Head On Stage . The T-birds are a band which has explored popular and traditional strains of blues music.

Calvert Marine Museum's indoor auditorium will be full of Texas-style blues and power rock when The Fabulous Thunderbirds perform in the 200-seat venue at 7:30 p.m. Nov.

From left: James Montgomery, James Cotton, Huey Lewis, and Kim Wilson pose outside the Hotel Commonwealth.

Make the juice run down my leg. Saturday, October 24, 2009 Harmonica Kim Wilson is a U.S. blues singer and harmonica player.

I made what has become a regular visit to Sippican Cottage and was delighted to find an old school video of Jimmy Vaughan, Kim Wilson and the Fabulous Thunderbirds playing the hell out of a classic twelve-bar blues rocker .

Mark Hummel has been doing the "Blues Harp Blowout" for almost 20 years, taking a concept that began as a Sunday night bar promotion and making it a national touring project.

The Fabulous Thunderbirds will be playing the Hog Creek Ice House, 170 Branson Trail, in Speegleville, on the 26th of September.

I've been following Kim Wilson and the Fabulous Thunderbirds ever since the so-called Texas circuit days in the 1970s, when the Austin rock 'n' blues band used to work clubs in Dallas, Houston, Austin and out of the way places like Lubbock, where I went to school, on a regular basis.

Charlie Musselwhite plays at the Great American Blues & Barbecue Festival from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sept.

Kim WIlson's dad vainly attempted to get his son golfing. No such luck. But it was destiny and the co-founder of The Fabulous Thunderbirds eventually picked up the clubs.

The Fabulous Thunderbirds will be playing the Labor Day Blues and BBQ, in Bedford, on September 5 at 8 PM.

Most people know The Fabulous Thunderbirds for "Tuff Enuff," their '80s mega-hit. Though the players have changed since then, the song remains the same, and so does the band.

Speaking to blues harmonica ace and singer Kim Wilson of The Fabulous Thunderbirds by phone at his suburban Detroit home is akin to making a fast friend at the local watering hole: no pretenses, just a passionate talk about politics, the pros and cons of analog sound, musical heroes, friends past and present and, of course, the blues.

The Livery in Benton Harbor marks its fourth anniversary this weekend, and there will be some high-profile guests there as part of the celebrations.

After a "brutal 10-day run," Kim Wilson says The Fabulous Thunderbirds are "really sounding great" heading into today's and Saturday's shows at The Livery in Benton Harbor.

Kim Wilson's T-Birds have gone through a lot of changes since starting out as a blues band in the '70s in Austin, Texas.