RIVERS GARCIA

presents

THE NEW ALBUM

SANTA CRUZ

a SANTA FE SOUND production

the santa cruz record

These songs were born from the interstates, the small towns, the faces and the experiences that filled my days traveling the beautiful American Southwest.  While many of the songs are California-inspired, my influences were also derived and collected from my travels through the diverse landscapes and cultures of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah and Nevada.

As the weeks and months flew by, like the blurred miles of blacktop disappearing into my rearview, my poetry and writings began to shape themselves into song lyrics that really resonated with me.  I endeavoured to arrange and lay down the guitar chords, the vocal melodies, the piano lines and the drums.  They were the kinds of songs I would have loved to have heard emanating from a vintage AM radio, driving down a lonely desert highway at 3 a.m.

And so, after building and equipping a modest home studio, Santa Fe Sound, I finally kicked the dust off my boots to cut this close-to-my-heart darling of a record, named Santa Cruz.

These are the songs...

— Rivers Garcia