Kim Wilson maintains two careers. He has been the one constant in the Fabulous Thunderbirds, the quartet that stormed out of Austin in the late ‘70s with Wilson as singer, harmonica player, and main songwriter and Jimmie Vaughan on guitar, and helped bring new energy to the blues.
The T-Birds’ start and their ascent through their “Tuff Enough” commercial apotheosis are chronicled in the excellent new eight-CD box set, The Jimmie Vaughan Years: Complete Studio Recordings 1978-89.
Wilson also keeps up a solo career, and that’s where he really seems to indulge his love of the blues. The new Slow Burn, the follow-up to 2020’s Grammy-nominated Take Me Back: The Bigtone Sessions, displays all the traits…