Kim Wilson To Release New Album ‘Take Me Back’ Out Oct. 9th

Kim Wilson To Release New Album ‘Take Me Back’ Out Oct. 9th
First Solo Recording In 3 Years

Aug. 27, 2020 – Northport NY – After 17 years, Kim Wilson has rejoined M.C. Records for his upcoming and 7th solo release, Take Me Back.  The recording is Kim’s first solo release in three years. The album’s street date is Friday October 9th. In 2001 and 2003, M.C. Records released Smokin’ Joint & Lookin’ For Trouble, both were nominated for Grammy Awards in the category of Traditional Blues.

Take Me Back is deep, authentic, and filled with the gut-wrenching blues sounds Kim has made famous for over 40 years. Recorded live in the studio and in mono, Kim delivers the blues as his heroes did in the golden age of the genre in the 1950s. Kim and his all-star band muscle through 16 tracks with some new Wilson songs and a mix of some great blues and R&B nuggets by the likes of Jimmy Rogers, Jimmy Nolan, Larry Williams, and more.

Over the last 10 years, Kim has been the go-to harmonica man and has recorded sessions with legendary Rock musicians Eric Clapton, Peter Frampton, Mark Knopfler and Paul Simon to name a few.

Take Me Back was recorded at Big Jon Atkinson’s ultra-authentic Big Tone Studios. Kim Wilson invited some first-class blues musicians for the album including Billy Flynn, Barrelhouse Chuck, Big Jon Atkinson, Rusty Zinn, and Kid Andersen.

To say that these recording sessions were enjoyable experiences would be a vast understatement! Not only are these fellas’ great musicians but they are also dear friends of mine and I want to thank them for the incredible performances that they gave. – Kim Wilson

Kim Wilson has been the voice and soul of the Texas band The Fabulous Thunderbirds. He’s also an accomplished solo recording artist, and in the minds of many people, the greatest harmonica player performing today.

A California native, Wilson grew up in a musical family. His parents both sang popular standards on the radio, and he studied the trombone and guitar as a youngster before discovering the blues while a senior in high school. In 1970, he decided to drop out of college to play the blues full time, learning the ropes from such San Francisco Bay Area blues musicians as Charlie Musselwhite, John Lee Hooker and George Harmonica Smith. Kim had the chance to work with so many of his musical influences and heroes over the years including Muddy Waters, Jimmie Rogers, Big Walter Horton, Eddie Taylor, Pee Wee Crayton and Lowell Fulson. In the mid-1970s he moved to Austin, where he co-founded The Fabulous Thunderbirds in 1974.

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