The Best of the Fabulous Thunderbirds: Early Birds Special
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The Best of the Fabulous Thunderbirds: Early Birds Special is a 2011 compilation album by Texas
based Blues Rock band The Fabulous Thunderbirds
released on Benchmark Recordings
. The album features a collection of songs from the original tracks from their first four albums, live versions, and the hits from their later albums - spanning their first decade of recording and touring.
Texas
Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...
based Blues Rock band The Fabulous Thunderbirds
The Fabulous Thunderbirds
The Fabulous Thunderbirds are an American, Grammy-nominated Blues rock band, formed in 1974.-Career:After performing for several years in the Austin, Texas blues scene, the band won a recording contract with Takoma/Chrysalis Records, and later on signed with Epic Records.Their first two albums,...
released on Benchmark Recordings
Benchmark Recordings
Benchmark Recordings is a record label that was founded in 2002 by music industry veterans Bill Coben and Denny Bruce.The initial catalog included the first four albums by The Fabulous Thunderbirds, which were originally released in the late 1970s and early 1980s on the Takoma Records label and...
. The album features a collection of songs from the original tracks from their first four albums, live versions, and the hits from their later albums - spanning their first decade of recording and touring.
Track listing
- 1 - Rich Woman
- 2 - She’s Tuff
- 3 - Tuff Enuff
- 4 - Scratch My Back (Live)
- 5 - Bad Boy
- 6 - Low-Down Woman
- 7 - Marked Deck
- 8 - One’s Too Many
- 9 - I Believe I’m in Love
- 10 - I Hear You Knockin’ (Live)
- 11 - Can’t Tear It Up Enuff
- 12 - You Ain’t Nothin’ but Fine
- 13 - Wrap It Up
- 14 - You’re Humbugging Me
- 15 - The Crawl (Live)
- 16 - Full Time Lover (Live)
- 17 - Los Fabulosos Thunderbirds
- 18 - Powerful Stuff
Personnel
- Denny BruceDenny BruceDenny Bruce is an American record producer and artist manager. He was born in Lancaster, PA on October 4, 1944.In the early 60s, he was a drummer for Frank Zappa but suffered a six-month illness with mononucleosis which cost him his job prior to the recording of Zappa's first album with The Mothers...
– co-producer - Jon MondayJon MondayJon Monday is an American producer and distributor of CDs and DVDs across an eclectic range of material such as Swami Prabhavananda, Aldous Huxley, Christopher Isherwood, Huston Smith, Chalmers Johnson, and Charles Bukowski...
- co-producer - Kim WilsonKim WilsonKim Wilson is an American blues singer and harmonica player. He is best known as the lead vocalist and frontman for The Fabulous Thunderbirds on two hit songs of the 1980s; "Tuff Enuff", and "Wrap It Up."-Career:...
– vocals and harmonica - Jimmie VaughanJimmie VaughanJames Lawrence "Jimmie" Vaughan is an American blues rock guitarist and singer from Dallas, Texas, United States. He is the older brother of the late Stevie Ray Vaughan....
- guitar - Mike BuckMike BuckMike Buck is an Austin, Texas based drummer who became influential by playing in a variety of bands in the roots music scene.-Career:...
– drums - Fran Christina - drums
- Keith FergusonKeith FergusonKeith James Ferguson is an American voice actor, well known as the voice of Blooregard Q. Kazoo on the Cartoon Network animated series Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends...
- bass