Album Notes

American Banned
There’s a lot of life to celebrate this coming month for Wilson Gil, the popular frontman for Bay Area Neo-Sonic Americana Rebel
Rock Band The Willful Sinners, who are hosting the album release party for their fiery and provocative new album American
Banned at San Francisco hotspot Bender’s Bar March 11. But when Gil, who switches effortlessly from sensitive crooner to
screaming explorer of the dark side, takes the stage there and on March 15 at Anaheim’s House of Blues, none of the people he
works with on his day job will be showing up.
Because they’re dead.
Yes, that’s right, one of S.F.’s most notorious indie rockers has the creepiest, coolest straight career in town: he caddies for
none other than The Grim Reaper, and he’s damn proud of it. As owner and operator of his own First Call/Removal Business
called Mortuary Accommodations for the past five years, Gil is the man with the van and the gurneys who transports the dead.
Sometimes it’s local, other times he enjoys the longer, better paying hauls