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The Fabulous Thunderbirds

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The Fabulous Thunderbirds are a blues-rock band, formed in 1974. Their original line up included guitarist Jimmie Vaughan, who is indeed the older brother of the influential electrical blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan. After performing for several years in the Austin, Texas blues scene, they earned a recording contract with Chrysalis Records and later signed to Arista. The first two albums released in 1979 and 1980 (with Keith Ferguson on bass and Mike Buck on drums), did not initially sell well, but are now regarded as successful white blues recordings. Their blues style mixed Texas blues with the harmonica-laced swamp blues sounds of Slim Harpo and Lazy Lester — both of whom the T-Birds covered. Their third album, Butt-Rockin’, released in 1981, took the band closer to old rhythm and blues and added piano and brass section played by additional musicians.

The band broke into the mainstream in 1986 with Tuff Enuff. The single of the same name was featured in the Kirk Douglas and Burt Lancaster film Tough Guys, as was the follow-up single, “Wrap It Up”. The band’s music was also played in John Cusack’s 1987 movie Hot Pursuit. The Fabulous Thunderbirds’ next album, Hot Number, fell off the charts quickly and alienated many of the bands’ long-time fans due to its slick pop-oriented sound. The band then began a long series of line-up changes and obscure, yet improved, albums throughout the 1990s. Drummer Mike Buck left the band in 1980 and guitarist Jimmie Vaughan left in 1990.

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1	Tuff Enuff full track	158
2	Wrap It Up full track	46
3	She's Tuff	40
4	Powerful Stuff full track	38
5	How Do You Spell Love?	25
5	Wait on Time	25
7	My Babe	21
8	Full Time Lover	15
8	Why Get Up full track	15
8	Rock This Place full track	15
11	Twist of the Knife full track	14
12	Give Me All Your Lovin'	12
13	Scratch My Back	11
13	Marked Deck	11
13	How Do You Spell Love full track	11

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peppesanzi wrote:
last month

Hi, I am a fan of the fabulous thunderbirds in Italy and I am also a guitar player in a blues band I found you in the list of the band friends I am looking for thr lyrics of HARD KNOCK from the album PAINTED ON, if have it may I ask you to copy and paste here for me? I'd really appreciate it Thanks, Peppe

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peppesanzi wrote:
last month

Is there anyone who can write the lyrics of this song also copy and paste and send to me? peppesanzi@libero.it Thanks

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MathiasPage wrote:
July 2008

Nice..

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MrLeetSauce wrote:
December 2006

Couldn't help but notice this band didn't have a description...So there you have it :)

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