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…
Dec 3 2012
Walk in Time is the Final CD Track to be Highlighted
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…
Dec 2 2012
What Gives? Rock Show Tonight!
Don't forget to come out and see Wookie Garcia at The Ruby Room tonight Sunday, 12/02!
Nov 30 2012
Respect for the Beat Farmers
"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…
Nov 29 2012
And I had to Walk Back and Forth to School..."Uphill Both Ways"
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…
Nov 28 2012
"That's an Obscure One!"
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…
Nov 27 2012
Five Have been Heard, After Today, Five Remain
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…
Nov 26 2012
We're only a week Away!
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…
Nov 25 2012
We Have Lots of Songs, but only one is "Special"
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…
Nov 24 2012
Sunday's Track is Young Again
One of the first new songs that the band began playing even before we were called Wookie Garcia. Don't know if we've ever played a show without including this one. The recording features Robert Fedeli on keyboards.
Nov 23 2012
Saturday's Track
Saturday's track is the earliest recording that made it on to Songs from Ray's Garage. "Fortune Cookie" goes back to the Usual Suspects' days and the basic tracks were actually recorded by Hatfield Rain. The overdubs were added around…
Nov 22 2012
Black Friday Kicks Off Eleven Days of Wookie!
Over the next eleven days our website will feature one complete song from our forthcoming album Songs from Ray's Garage on the music player found at the bottom of every page. Simply click play and hear each track as many…