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The Fabulous Thunderbirds

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The Fabulous Thunderbirds is an American blues rock band formed in Texas in 1974. [1]

74 relations: Austin, Texas, Billboard Hot 100, Blues rock, Booker T. Jones, Brass instrument, Butt Rockin', Chrysalis Records, Cocktail (1988 film), Columbia Records, Cover version, Danny Kortchmar, Different Tacos, Dotdash, Doyle Bramhall II, Duet, Duke Robillard, Epic Records, Eric Clapton, Gene Taylor (pianist), Girls Go Wild, Gung Ho (film), Havana Moon, High Water (The Fabulous Thunderbirds album), Hot Number, Hot Pursuit (1987 film), Jimmie Vaughan, Joan Jett, Johnny Moeller, Keith Ferguson (musician), Kid Ramos, Kim Wilson, Lazy Lester, Light of Day, List of blues musicians, List of one-hit wonders in the United States, Live (The Fabulous Thunderbirds album), Los Lobos, Marc Ford, Michael J. Fox, Mike Buck, Music of Austin, Texas, Music of Texas, Nick Curran, Painted On, Phonograph record, PopMatters, Powerful Stuff, Private Music, Providence, Rhode Island, Record chart, ..., Recording contract, Rhythm and blues, Robert Cray, Robert Johnson, Rockabilly, Roll of the Dice, Roomful of Blues, Severn Records, Slim Harpo, Southern rock, St. Louis, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Swamp blues, T-Bird Rhythm, Texas blues, The Best of the Fabulous Thunderbirds: Early Birds Special, The Black Crowes, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, The Rolling Stones, Tough Guys, Tuff Enuff, Tuff Enuff (song), Walk That Walk, Talk That Talk, What's the Word. Expand index (24 more) »

Austin, Texas

Austin is the capital of the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of Travis County, with portions extending into Hays and Williamson counties.

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Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by Billboard magazine.

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Blues rock

Blues rock is a fusion genre combining elements of blues and rock.

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Booker T. Jones

Booker Taliaferro Jones, Jr. (born November 12, 1944) is an American multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, record producer and arranger, best known as the frontman of the band Booker T. & the M.G.'s.

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Brass instrument

A brass instrument is a musical instrument that produces sound by sympathetic vibration of air in a tubular resonator in sympathy with the vibration of the player's lips.

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Butt Rockin'

Butt Rockin' is the third studio album by Texas-based blues rock band The Fabulous Thunderbirds.

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Chrysalis Records

Chrysalis Records is a British record label that was created in 1968.

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Cocktail (1988 film)

Cocktail is a 1988 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Roger Donaldson and written by Heywood Gould, whose screenplay was based on his book of the same name.

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Columbia Records

Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the North American division of Japanese conglomerate Sony.

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Cover version

In popular music, a cover version, cover song, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording by someone other than the original artist or composer of a previously recorded, commercially released song.

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Danny Kortchmar

Daniel Kortchmar (born April 6, 1946) is an American guitarist, session musician, producer and songwriter.

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Different Tacos

Different Tacos is a 1996 compilation album by Texas-based blues rock band The Fabulous Thunderbirds.

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Dotdash

Dotdash (formerly About.com) is an American Internet-based network of content that publishes articles and videos about various subjects on its "topic sites", of which there are nearly 1,000.

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Doyle Bramhall II

Doyle Bramhall II (born 24 December 1968) is an American musician, producer, guitarist, and songwriter known for his work with Eric Clapton, Roger Waters and many others.

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Duet

A duet is a musical composition for two performers in which the performers have equal importance to the piece, often a composition involving two singers or two pianists.

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Duke Robillard

Michael John "Duke" Robillard (born October 4, 1948) is an American guitarist and singer.

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Epic Records

Epic Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, Inc., the North American division of Japanese conglomerate Sony.

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Eric Clapton

Eric Patrick Clapton, (born 1945), is an English rock and blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter.

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Gene Taylor (pianist)

Gene Taylor (born July 2, 1952, Norwalk, California, United States) is an American musician.

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Girls Go Wild

Girls Go Wild is the alternate (and incorrect) title of the 1979 debut studio album by Texas-based blues rock band, The Fabulous Thunderbirds.

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Gung Ho (film)

Gung Ho is a 1986 American comedy film directed by Ron Howard and starring Michael Keaton and Gedde Watanabe.

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Havana Moon

Havana Moon is a 1983 album by Carlos Santana released as a solo project.

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High Water (The Fabulous Thunderbirds album)

High Water is a 1997 studio album credited to Texas-based blues rock band The Fabulous Thunderbirds, though the album is a collaboration between Thunderbirds frontman Kim Wilson and studio musicians (and producers) Steve Jordan and Danny Kortchmar.

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Hot Number

Hot Number is a studio album by the blues rock band The Fabulous Thunderbirds.

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Hot Pursuit (1987 film)

Hot Pursuit is a 1987 American action comedy film directed by Steven Lisberger, written by Lisberger and Steven Carabatsos, and starring John Cusack, Robert Loggia, Wendy Gazelle, and Jerry Stiller.

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Jimmie Vaughan

Jimmie Lawrence Vaughan (born March 20, 1951, Oak Cliff, Dallas County, Texas, United States) is an American blues rock guitarist and singer based in Austin, Texas.

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Joan Jett

Joan Jett (born Joan Marie Larkin, September 22, 1958) is an American rock singer, songwriter, composer, musician, record producer and occasional actress.

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Johnny Moeller

Johnny Moeller (born Jon Kelly Moeller, October 31, 1970) is an American guitarist, currently with The Fabulous Thunderbirds.

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Keith Ferguson (musician)

Keith Ferguson (July 23, 1946 – April 29, 1997) was an American bass guitarist, best remembered as a member of the blues rock band, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, based in Austin, Texas.

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Kid Ramos

Kid Ramos (born January 13, 1959) is an American electric blues and blues rock guitarist, singer and songwriter.

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Kim Wilson

Kim Wilson (born January 6, 1951) is an American blues singer and harmonica player.

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Lazy Lester

Lazy Lester (born Leslie Carswell Johnson, June 20, 1933) is an American blues musician who sings and plays the harmonica and guitar.

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Light of Day

Light of Day is a 1987 American musical drama film starring Michael J. Fox, Gena Rowlands and Joan Jett.

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List of blues musicians

Performers in the blues style range from primitive, one-chord Delta players to big bands to country music to rock and roll to classical music.

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List of one-hit wonders in the United States

A one-hit wonder is a musical artist who is successful with one hit song, but without a comparable subsequent hit.

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Live (The Fabulous Thunderbirds album)

Live is a 2001 live album by Texas-based blues rock band The Fabulous Thunderbirds.

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Los Lobos

Los Lobos (Spanish for "the Wolves") are an American rock band from East Los Angeles, California, United States.

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Marc Ford

Marc Ford (born April 13, 1966), is an American blues-rock guitarist.

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Michael J. Fox

Michael Andrew Fox (born June 9, 1961), known professionally as Michael J. Fox, is a Canadian-American actor, author, producer, and activist with a film and television career spanning from the 1970s.

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Mike Buck

Mike Buck (born June 17, 1952) is an Austin, Texas-based drummer and co-owner of Antone's Record Shop located in downtown Austin.

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Music of Austin, Texas

Music of Austin, Texas: Austin's official motto is the "Live Music Capital of the World" because on any given night, one can find over one hundred venues showcasing a wide variety of free - live music performances.

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Music of Texas

The U.S. state of Texas has long been a center for musical innovation and is the birthplace of many notable musicians.

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Nick Curran

Nick Curran (September 30, 1977 – October 6, 2012) was an American blues/rock and roll singer and guitarist.

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Painted On

Painted On is a 2005 studio album by Texas based blues rock band The Fabulous Thunderbirds.

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Phonograph record

A phonograph record (also known as a gramophone record, especially in British English, or record) is an analog sound storage medium in the form of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove.

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PopMatters

PopMatters is an international online magazine of cultural criticism that covers many aspects of popular culture.

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Powerful Stuff

Powerful Stuff is a 1989 studio album by Texas based blues rock band The Fabulous Thunderbirds.

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Private Music

Private Music was an American independent record label founded in 1984 by musician Peter Baumann as a "home for instrumental music".

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Providence, Rhode Island

Providence is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Rhode Island and is one of the oldest cities in the United States.

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Record chart

A record chart, also called a music chart, is a ranking of recorded music according to certain criteria during a given period of time.

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Recording contract

A recording contract (commonly called a record contract or record deal) is a legal agreement between a record label and a recording artist (or group), where the artist makes a record (or series of records) for the label to sell and promote.

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Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, commonly abbreviated as R&B, is a genre of popular music that originated in African American communities in the 1940s.

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Robert Cray

Robert William Cray (born August 1, 1953) is an American blues guitarist and singer.

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Robert Johnson

Robert Leroy Johnson (May 8, 1911August 16, 1938) was an American blues singer-songwriter and musician.

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Rockabilly

Rockabilly is one of the earliest styles of rock and roll music, dating back to the early 1950s in the United States, especially the South.

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Roll of the Dice

Roll of the Dice is a 1995 studio album by Texas-based blues rock band The Fabulous Thunderbirds, their second without Jimmie Vaughan.

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Roomful of Blues

Roomful of Blues is an American blues and swing revival big band based in Rhode Island.

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Severn Records

Severn Records is an American independent record label that concentrates on blues music.

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Slim Harpo

James Isaac Moore (January 11, 1924 – January 31, 1970), better known by his stage name Slim Harpo, was an American blues musician, a leading exponent of the swamp blues style, and "one of the most commercially successful blues artists of his day".

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Southern rock

Southern rock is a subgenre of rock music and a genre of Americana.

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St. Louis

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Stevie Ray Vaughan

Stephen Ray Vaughan (October 3, 1954 – August 27, 1990) was an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer.

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Swamp blues

Swamp blues, sometimes the Excello sound, is a subgenre of blues music and a variation of Louisiana blues that developed around Baton Rouge in the 1950s and which reached a peak of popularity in the 1960s.

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T-Bird Rhythm

T-Bird Rhythm is the fourth studio album by Texas-based blues rock band The Fabulous Thunderbirds released in 1982.

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Texas blues

Texas blues is a style of blues music.

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The Best of the Fabulous Thunderbirds: Early Birds Special

The Best of the Fabulous Thunderbirds: Early Birds Special is a 2011 compilation album by Texas-based blues rock band The Fabulous Thunderbirds released on Benchmark Recordings.

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The Black Crowes

The Black Crowes were an American rock band formed in 1989.

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The Fabulous Thunderbirds

The Fabulous Thunderbirds is an American blues rock band formed in Texas in 1974.

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The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in London, England, in 1962.

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Tough Guys

Tough Guys is a 1986 action comedy film directed by Jeff Kanew and starring Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Eli Wallach, Charles Durning, Dana Carvey (in his film debut) and Darlanne Fluegel.

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Tuff Enuff

Tuff Enuff is a 1986 studio album by Texas-based blues rock and rockabilly band The Fabulous Thunderbirds which pointed the band in a more mainstream direction.

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Tuff Enuff (song)

"Tuff Enuff" is a song by the blues rock band the Fabulous Thunderbirds.

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Walk That Walk, Talk That Talk

Walk That Walk, Talk That Talk is a 1991 studio album by Texas based blues rock band The Fabulous Thunderbirds and the first without guitarist Jimmie Vaughan.

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What's the Word

What's the Word is the second studio album by the Austin, Texas-based Blues-rock band The Fabulous Thunderbirds, released in 1980.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fabulous_Thunderbirds

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