Legendary bluesman Wilson returns for Tucson’s ‘Wintertime Blues Bash’ | Music

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Bluesman Kim Wilson will conduct a concert at the El Casino Ballroom on Friday December 3rd.

Michael P. & the Gullywashers will open for Kim Wilson at the El Casino Ballroom on Friday, December 3rd.

After the 2020 event hiatus, the Southern Arizona Blues & Heritage Foundation is bringing back its Wintertime Blues Bash, an annual event held on the first Friday in December.

This year’s event on December 3rd, the third since the Winter Concert started in 2018, brings back Fabulous Thunderbirds headliner Kim Wilson. Wilson headlined the last one in 2019.

“Kim is one of our favorites,” says Jeb Schoonover, who organized the event with Marty Kool for the Blues Foundation.

Wilson, who comes here with his 2020 release Take Me Back: The Bigtone Sessions, has been on the Tucson blues stages since 1989 at the Tucson All Stars Blues Review.

“I think Kim is one of the best blues players both as a singer and a harpist,” said Schoonover.

Wilson’s album, released on MC Records and co-produced by aspiring blues man Big Jon Atkinson, came out during the pandemic and pays homage to the blues singer / songwriter and harmonica player’s blues heroes from the genre’s golden age. On 16 tracks, Wilson delivers a mix of his own old and new songs with classic gems from Jimmy Rogers, Jimmy Nolan, Larry Williams and others in an album widely acclaimed for its vintage vibe that “never sounds old-fashioned.” after no depression.

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