Tuff Enuff Explained

Tuff Enuff
Type:	studio
Artist:	The Fabulous Thunderbirds
Cover:	Tuff Enuff.jpg
Released:	January 1986
Recorded:	1985
Genre:	Blues rock, Texas blues
Length:	32:26
Label:	CBS Associated Labels
Producer:	Dave Edmunds
Prev Title:	T-Bird Rhythm
Prev Year:	1982
Next Title:	Hot Number
Next Year:	1987

Tuff Enuff is a 1986 studio album by Texas-based blues rock band the Fabulous Thunderbirds, which pointed the band in a more mainstream direction. The single "Tuff Enuff" was featured in the films Gung Ho and Tough Guys, as was the follow-up single "Wrap It Up". It has also been played a number of times on the sitcom Married... with Children. "Tuff Enuff" remains the band's only Top 40 hit, peaking at No. 10 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Track listing

1. "Tuff Enuff" (Kim Wilson) - 3:22
2. "Tell Me" (Eddie Shuler, Sidney Simien) - 2:43
3. "Look at That, Look at That" (Wilson, Fran Christina, Preston Hubbard, Jimmie Vaughan) - 3:25
4. "Two Time My Lovin'" (Wilson) - 3:41
5. "Amnesia" (Wilson) - 3:45
6. "Wrap It Up" (Isaac Hayes, David Porter) - 2:42
7. "True Love" (Wilson) - 3:08
8. "Why Get Up" (Bill Carter, Ruth Ellen Ellsworth) - 3:48
9. "I Don't Care" (Wilson) - 2:49
10. "Down at Antones" (instrumental) (Wilson, Christina, Hubbard, Vaughan) - 3:03

Personnel

The Fabulous Thunderbirds

• Kim Wilson - vocals, harmonica
• Jimmie Vaughan - guitar, steel guitar, bass, vocals
• Preston Hubbard - electric and acoustic bass, vocals
• Fran Christina - drums, vocals

with:

• Al Copley - keyboards
• Chuck Leavell - keyboards on "Look at That, Look at That"
• Geraint Watkins - piano, accordion on "Amnesia"
• Cesar Rosas, David Hidalgo - vocals on "Two Time My Lovin'"

Album Design-Spencer Drate, Judith Salavetz;Front cover artwork-Dan Youngblood