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Fabulous Thunderbirds: Can Rich Men Sing The Blues?

Roy Trakin, Creem, December 1987

THESE ARE THE best and worst of times for the Fabulous Thunderbirds. After 14 lean years and four commercial flops, the Austin, Texas-based critical darlings rode the wave of the blues revival and their own hit single, ‘Tuff Enuff’, to the biggest success in the band's career.

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