Four years on from their acclaimed debut, ‘Steelhearted’, Swedish rockabilly six piece Fatboy have greased their pompadours and suited up for another musical journey back to when Elvis Presley and Marlon Brando were corrupting the youth and the way to survive a nuclear attack was to duck and cover.

The first step towards Fatboy was taken in the late 1970s when founding members Thomas Pareigis (vocal, guitar) and Alf Östlund (upright bass) discovered rockabilly and began playing together around their native Dalarna. However, it wasn’t until a chance meeting at a Stray Cats gig in Stockholm 10 years later brought them back together after years apart that the duo developed into a band, named after a jazz slang term for the upright bass.

With clear and obvious references like Roy Orbison, aforementioned Mr. Presley and, more recent, Chris Isaak (Thomas Pareigis sound close to exactly like him), ‘In My Bones’ is loaded with American mythology, painting vivid imagery of teens defining themselves in the back seats of cadillacs and a sense of a new world erupting with the coming of rock’n’roll, and Fatboy’s amazing songs fit for both stereo and dance floors.

Genre: Rock
Who: Fatboy
Album: In My Bones
Label: Fat State Production/Playground Music
Year: 2008/2009
Country: Sweden
Language: English
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