DISCOGRAPHY 1993-2020 (28CD)
BIOGRAPHY
Wilson was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1951, but he grew up in Goleta, California, where he sometimes went by the stage name of "Goleta Slim."
He started with the blues in the late 1960s and was tutored by people like Muddy Waters, Jimmie Rogers, Eddie Taylor, Albert Collins, George "Harmonica" Smith, Luther Tucker and Pee Wee Crayton and was influenced by harmonica players like Little Walter, James Cotton, Big Walter Horton, Slim Harpo and Lazy Lester.
Before he moved to Austin, Texas in 1974, he was the leader of the band
Aces, Straights and Shuffles in Minneapolis, Minnesota; this band released
one single. In Austin he formed The Fabulous Thunderbirds with guitarist
Jimmie Vaughan, and they became the house band at the blues club,
Antone's, owned by Clifford Antone. Muddy Waters called Wilson, "The
greatest harmonica player since Little Walter".
Wilson continues to perform up to 300 concert dates per year at blues
music festivals and clubs all over the world, both as leader of The
Fabulous Thunderbirds and with the Kim Wilson Blues Allstars.
His powerful style of blues harp playing has been described as "loaded
with the textures of a full-blown horn section."
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