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Canned Heat and The Fabulous Thunderbirds: All Blues
by Doug Collette
Legitimate practitioners of the blues realize full well their vocation is a life-long enterprise, neither a passing fad to be followed nor a mere whim to be pursued. It is thus simple to recognize the authentic figures in the field in contrast to the posers: the histories of the former encompass decades, not just years or months. And in the cases of Canned Heat and the Fabulous Thunderbirds, the decades of the members in question add up to multiple centuries, ...
Continue ReadingThe Fabulous Thunderbirds / Dickey Betts: Westbury, NY, July 10, 2010
by Mike Perciaccante
The Fabulous Thunderbirds / Dickey Betts & Great Southern NYCB Theater at Westbury Westbury, New York July 10, 2011 On a pleasant Sunday evening, the crowd outside the NYCB Theater in Westbury was happily buzzing and chattering in anticipation of the boogie-woogie blues and southern rock extravaganza they were about to see. The Fabulous Thunderbirds, featuring original member/vocalist/harmonicist Kim Wilson, and Great Southern--the on-again/off-again solo project fronted by Allman Brothers Band founding guitarist Dickey ...
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