Wookie Garcia

On Sunday evening February 24 Wookie Garcia will be among 14 local bands featured at the americana edition of the Local Brew Local Grooves All Access Fest at the House of Blues downtown.  We will be the first band playing…

Check out the January edition of My Hometown magazine for a short feature on our CD release. The story appears at the bottom of page 8.  Thanks to Mike Minjares for the kind words, although music fans will have to…

Due to circumstances way beyond our control, our upcoming performance scheduled for this Tuesday January 8 at the House of Blues has been cancelled.  We will still be performing at the same location on Tuesday February 12.  Sorry for the…

Wookie Garcia will be on the radio for the first time this Sunday, December 9 on the Homegrown Show on KPRI 102.1 FM.  The show is hosted by local musicians Cathryn Beeks and Jeff Berkley each Sunday night between 8…

Tomorrow is the big day: Songs from Ray's Garage will be available for purchase exclusively (for now) on this website.  The CD will be available for purchase to be shipped directly to you, or you have your choice of mp3…

Don't forget to come out and see Wookie Garcia at The Ruby Room tonight Sunday, 12/02!

"It's finally the weekend, and we're headed for the bar..."  Those words begin our tribute to arguably the finest San Diego band ever, and more importantly, to their legendary founder, Country Dick Montana.  It would be impossible to estimate the…

Friday's track is the first song Kyle & Brian wrote together after a break of several years.  It was written over several weeks in the garage days before Wookie Garcia was a band.  The father in the story obviously exaggerates…

The one thing that sets today's song apart from the rest of the album is that it's the one song that we didn't write.  We're big fans of Stan Ridgway, and when a couple of us got to meet…

We're in the middle of our CD preview. Five songs have already been heard.  After today, there will only be five left to play.  Since we're in the middle, there's no time like the present to start at the beginning…

Today's preview is "Brand New Life" a Usual Suspects-era song that somehow never made it onto any of that band's releases.  Here the sound is big with drums and guitars carrying the day.  The lead vocal is squished down as…

The third track on the album is unique among our songs in that the songwriting credit is shared by the whole band.  When we began recording for this project this song was but a month old and we had only…