The Fabulous Thunderbirds

About this event

City Winery Nashville Presents The Fabulous Thunderbirds live on Sunday, November 8th at 7:30pm! Kim Wilson didn't study Chicago blues from a distance. He learned it from the people who made it. At 18 he was playing alongside Eddie Taylor. He ate dinner with Muddy Waters after the show. He watched Little Walter, James Cotton, and Big Walter shape a genre around the harmonica he'd spend his life perfecting. What Wilson calls a "tribute" is really something closer to testimony. The Chicago blues that migrated north, plugged in, and learned to hold a room is the music he grew up inside, and it shows every time he opens his mouth or lifts that harmonica. The Fabulous Thunderbirds' "Tribute to Chicago Blues" tour brings the deep catalog and the biggest hits together in a single evening: traditional cuts Wilson has played for fifty years and the Thunderbirds standards that introduced a generation to the genre. No set list. The crowd sets the pace. City Winery is the intimate concert venue this music deserves.