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1.	I've Been Treated Wrong 04:28	buy track
2.	It Don't Hurt Nobody 04:00	buy track
3.	Black Snake 03:17	buy track
4.	Single Girl 03:46	buy track
5.	Don't You Make Me High 03:33	buy track
6.	Show Me The Way To Go Home 03:55	buy track
7.	Ballad Of Luis Reyes 04:27	buy track
8.	Ridgewood Blues 04:31	buy track
9.	Hand Me Down My Walking Cane 04:13	buy track
10.	Floating Bridge 04:21	buy track
11.	Tell Me That You Love Me 04:21	buy track
12.	Epitaph 03:18	buy track

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Fatboy Wilson & Old Viejo Bones is a new project from acclaimed Brooklyn folk and blues musicians Samoa Wilson and Ernesto Gomez. Their self titled debut album features five brand new original songs as well as inventive interpretations of a diverse range of folk and blues songs.

Samoa Wilson is widely regarded as one of the best blues, jazz and folk singers in New York City. The New York Times calls her singing “sweet, effortless, old-timey” and Nat Hentoff has called her style, “the essence of unaffected musical storytelling.” Wilson grew up with music in her family, and began singing jug band music, early jazz and blues with her uncle Jim Kweskin at a young age.

Ernesto Gomez, originally from the Union City, NJ has been writing songs and playing blues harmonica and guitar for a number of years with his band the Brotherhood of the Jugband Blues. His influences are broad and include Cuban, Mexican and rap music along side classic blues sources. Gomez was schooled by the late blues great Carolina Slim and Down Home Radio has called him “an authentic blues man.” Ernesto Gomez also made the album’s beautiful original artwork.

In addition to classic and obscure blues and folk songs, the album also features four originals by the band. Gomez’s song, “Black Snake” reflects on his experience on the Standing Rock Sioux Indian reservation in North Dakota, opposing the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. Wilson’s “Ballad of Luis Reyes” and “Ridgewood Blues” depict her experience of living and working in contemporary New York City. Her lighthearted song “It Don't Hurt Nobody” asks listeners to live in peace.

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released January 24, 2020

Samoa Wilson - Voice, Baritone Ukulele
Ernesto Gomez - Voice, Guitar, Harmonica

Recorded by Frankie Sunswept at Sunswept Drive Mobile Recording Unit Ridgewood, Queens, NY

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