LOS FABULOCOS FEATURING KID RAMOS Source: Maverick Magazine Date: 08/2008 Writer: TB

California/Tex roots band Los Fabulocos are vocalist/accordionist Jesus Cuevas, bassist James Barrios and drummer Mike Molina—who have teamed up with west coast R&B guitar legend David 'Kid' Ramos to produce a stellar album of Tex-Mex, R&B, rock 'n' roll and country music.

The Kid has blues pedigree as long as your arm. A founder member of the James Harman Band (with the late and legendary Hollywood Fats), a member of Dave Alvin's great band, The Blasters and The Fabulous Thunderbirds. More recently Kid has been a member of all star blues outfit The Mannish Boys. Plus he has cut a number of fine solo albums—notably the critically acclaimed R&B album, GREASY KIDS STUFF for Evidence Records from 2001.
Jesus Cuevas, is a Tex-Mex legend—as the main man and accordion player with the East Los Angeles group The Blazers, best known for their heady mix of rocking norteno, R&B, zydeco and country.

On this set, Los Fabulocos deliver a similar hot 'n' spicy and rhythmic mix. "We play songs in Spanish, then we’ll do a Fats Domino song, then we’ll play a blues, and then we’ll do a Buck Owens or Johnny Cash song. People look and go, ‘What?’ Then, all of a sudden, they just start dancing and having smiles on their faces", says the Kid.

This debut set features original material such as Cuevas' If You Know and Day After Day alongside great re-workings of R&B classics including Huey 'Piano' Smith's Educated Fool, Rockin' Sidney Simien's 1962 swamp rocker, You Ain’t Nothin’ But Fine; Clifton Chenier's All Night Long; Lloyd Price's Just Because plus rockabilly covers of Johnny Burnette's Lonesome Tears In My Eyes and Gene Maltais' 1957 classic Crazy Baby, perhaps better known as a Doug Sahm track.

Plus there are some great Tex-Mex tracks including Un Mojado Sin Licencia, Cornello Reyna's Como Un Perro, Mexico Americano and a Kid Ramos guitar showcase on Burnin’ The Chicken.

If rockin' roots music from the likes Los Lobos, Doug Sahm's Texas Tornados, Freddy Fender, Flaco Jimenez and The Hacienda Brothers appear on your radar screen, roll back the carpet, crack open a six pack of Mexican beer, put your dancing shoes on and play loud!