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Kim Wilson Take Me Back! The Bigtone Sessions

Richard Ludmerer blues, blues-rock, indie Blues, Kim Wilson, making a Scene, roots October 7, 2020

Kim Wilson Take Me Back! The Bigtone Sessions MC Records Harmonica player and vocalist Kim Wilson fronts the Fabulous Thunderbirds while also maintaining a solo career. Wilson has seven previous studio albums under his own name; the last being 2017’s “Blues and Boogie Vol. 1”. Wilson is winner of six Blues Music Awards. He is […]

CD Reviews INDIE Blues

Mud Morganfield and Kim Wilson: For Pops (A Tribute to Muddy Waters)

Rhetta Akamatsu blues music, Chicago blues, For Pops, Kim Wilson, Mud Morganfield, Muddy Waters tribute August 27, 2014

This year would be Muddy Waters’ 100th birthday and his son Mud Morganfield wanted to pay tribute to him, so he teamed up with Kim Wilson of the Fabulous Thunderbirds to create For Pops. Aside from Mud’s vocals, which sound very similar to his father’s while not sounding like an imitation at all, Wilson provides […]

CD Reviews INDIE Blues/ Uncategorized

Mud Morganfield and Kim Wilson – For Pops: A Tribute to Muddy Waters

Richard Ludmerer blues, Kim Wilson, making a Scene, Mud Morganfield, muddy waters July 31, 2014

Mud Morganfield and Kim Wilson For Pops: A Tribute to Muddy Waters Severn Records The most important figure in modern Blues is Muddy Waters. Waters took the music from rural Mississippi to the northern city of Chicago. As a bandleader his band included Little Walter, the most influential harp player of our time. Waters’ electrified […]