My Lunch with the Blues Guys
Bill Wasserzieher, unpublished, 1997
IT'S NOT NEWS that Kim Wilson of the Fabulous Thunderbirds is a good harmonica player. But he also cuts it as raconteur with stories about the blues world and its musicians - the kind of stories that people who tell them dine out and get fat on until they're candidates for liposuction.
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