Girls Go Wild

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Girls Go Wild
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Studio album by
The Fabulous Thunderbirds
ReleasedOctober 29, 1979 (1979-10-29)
RecordedMay 1979
StudioSumet-Bernet Sound Studios, Dallas, Texas
Genre
Length35:02
Label Takoma Records [2]
Chrysalis [3]
Producer Denny Bruce [4]
The Fabulous Thunderbirds chronology
Girls Go Wild
(1979)		 What's the Word
(1980)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [1]
The Austin Chronicle Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [5]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [6]
The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [7]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [2]

Girls Go Wild is the alternate (and incorrect) title of the 1979 debut studio album by the Texas-based blues rock band The Fabulous Thunderbirds. [6] [8] The album was an eponymous release (the record label and the jacket spine have only the band's name), but due to the prominence of the words "Girls Go Wild" on the cover it has often been referred to by that name. The album was reissued via Benchmark Recordings in 2000. [5]

Contents

Reception

The Cleveland Scene wrote that the album "generated an excitement among many blues fans on a par with that brought on by the first couple of Paul Butterfield albums more than a decade before." [9]

Track listing

All tracks composed by Kim Wilson except where indicated:

  1. "Wait on Time" – 3:03
  2. "Scratch My Back" (James Moore AKA Slim Harpo) – 3:52
  3. "Rich Woman" (Dorothy LaBostrie, McKinley "Li'l" Millet) – 3:28
  4. "Full-Time Lover" (Frankie Lee, Frank Scott) – 4:43
  5. "Pocket Rocket" – 3:27
  6. "She's Tuff" (Jerry "Boogie" McCain) – 2:59
  7. "Marked Deck" (Jimmy Mullins, Johnny Vincent) – 2:41
  8. "Walkin' to My Baby" – 2:25
  9. "Rock with Me" – 2:38
  10. "C-Boy's Blues" (Wilson, Jimmie Vaughan, Keith Ferguson, Mike Buck) – 2:58
  11. "Let Me In" – 2:35

Bonus tracks on some editions

  1. "Look Whatcha Done" (Samuel Maghett) – 2:17
  2. "Please Don't Lie to Me" – 2:08
  3. "Things I Forgot to Do" (Kim Wilson, Guitar Slim) – 3:00

Personnel

Musicians

Technical

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References

  1. 1 2 Koda, Cub. "The Fabulous Thunderbirds - The Fabulous Thunderbirds | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic" – via www.allmusic.com. One of the few white blues albums that works.
  2. 1 2 The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. p. 236.
  3. ↑ KRAMPERT, PETER (March 23, 2016). "The Encyclopedia of the Harmonica". Mel Bay Publications – via Google Books.
  4. ↑ "Declarations of Independents". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. October 7, 2000 – via Google Books.
  5. 1 2 "The Fabulous Thunderbirds, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, and The Fabulous Thunderbirds". www.austinchronicle.com.
  6. 1 2 Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 3. MUZE. p. 356.
  7. ↑ Russell, Tony; Smith, Chris (2006). The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings . Penguin. p. 190. ISBN   978-0-140-51384-4.
  8. ↑ "The Fabulous Thunderbirds | Biography & History". AllMusic.
  9. ↑ Verh, Duane. "The Fabulous Thunderbirds". Cleveland Scene.
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