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| Fabulous Thunderbirds - Powerful Stuff Band: Fabulous Thunderbirds Tracks: - Rock This Place - Knock Yourself Out - Mistake Number 1 - One Night Stand - Emergency - Powerful Stuff - Close Together - Now Loosen Up Baby - She's Hot - Rainin' In My Heart Soulfull but maybe a bit lost This is an interesting album, originally released in 1989. Worth picking up if you want some not-exactly-of-the-mainstream rootsy music to listen to. This album I like for that reason. It could have been otherwise, the title song was featured in a hit yuppie-superbartender movie with Tom Cruise. But the album was lost in the shuffle of a buyout of CBS records by some Japanese company with little regard for Texas Roots music and was subsequently under promoted, according to Kim Wilson. I read a guitar Magazine interview wherein Jimmie Vaughan (the guitarist) said he thought this album had some really hot guitar playing on it. It does here and there, but I also read a couple years later that he was tired of playing in the T-birds and quit The Band for that reason. It shows on this album, (his last with the band) his playing sounds a bit tired and is not terribly exciting, a far cry from the rootsy snap on Girls Go Wild and Whats the Word. But then that tired sound was typical of one of his main influences, Jimmy Reed, and therefore it fits in a blues context (though Vaughan is more of a Jimmie Reed on steroids, and he can play more than one rhythm). So if you like Jimmy Reed, maybe you'll like this album. I must say I don't like the fuzz guitar effect on Rock This Place. Jimmie made use of a long scale guitar on many tracks, which acounts for the twangy, closer to a bass sound on Powerfull Stuff, for instance. Overall this is a Fair album, not as good as the prior one, Hot Number, where the T-Birds flirt with the use of a horn section, and Jimmie's rhythm playing really shines in a more uptown blues Band setting. If you want the T-Birds at their hot, snappin' best go for T-Bird Rhythm, Girls Go Wild, Whats the Word, or even Tuff Enuff. Buy Fabulous Thunderbirds Powerful Stuff at Amazon.com Buy posters at Allposters.comJamster - the latest ringtones for your phone! |
