Project Description
Similar Artists: Tom Waits, Sturgill Simpson, Hiss Golden Messenger
David Climaco Garcia emerges from a mid-century highway culture that still dominates the American imagination. The Albuquerque-based songwriter draws from New Mexico’s Southwestern Americana, a blend of classic cowboy and country sensibilities mixed with his own Spanish and Native American lineage. Garcia says, “Growing up in Albuquerque, you’d be caught between these extreme down-and-dirty vibes that ranged from hip hop, punk rock, and a trucker meth culture that were all in your face and hard to escape, but it’s a really vibrant and multicultural city that I just feel at home and grounded in.”
Garcia spent many years hitchhiking around the American West, which lends to a dusty, down-and-out vibe in his songs. He says, “My career path has been so completely off any logical map, and my work carries the baggage of my years of wandering and living on the edge.” He’s slept in bushes in Seattle’s Gasworks Park and dodged cowboys trying to seduce him after picking him up hitching through Texas. He’s burned up the boulevards of San Francisco’s outer districts on a classic BMW cafe racer and wandered the Tenderloin on one of the many hard drugs on offer to the young and tragically hip. He says, “Much of my life has been a Kerouacian fever-dream that I’m lucky to be alive to tell about.”
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RELEASES
“Riverside Home” (Single)
Release Date: April 22, 2021 (Bandcamp Only) / May G Official Release Date
Built on a traditional Irish ballad song structure, the single provides an interlude from grief through the comforts of nature. On April 22, the single will be released exclusively on Bandcamp in honor of Earth Day. Before the official May 6 release, proceeds will be donated to the non-profit wilderness advocacy group, New Mexico Wilderness Alliance. The single is off the album, Between the Devil and Me, due out this summer. Read more
“Everybody Gets to Be Wrong” (Single)
Release Date: June 24, 2021
Ruminating on regret associated with adultery and entitlement, the single exonerates guilt with a bluesy inverted groove and a waft from the proverbial cigarette in bed. Singing through a forest of harmonic distortion echoing a hangover, “Everybody Gets to Be Wrong” emerged from a morning after early in the pandemic. He says, “My wife and I had torn into the liquor cabinet and killed several bottles. I woke up not remembering much clearly, and I’d felt like I’d somehow cheated on her, on us. Like we’d each stepped outside of ourselves and somehow had been with different people. Not exactly a blackout but more a slip out. We kind of slipped into people we weren’t, and I felt really guilty about it.” Read more
“Rolling On” (Single)
Release Date: October 7, 2021
David Climaco Garcia announces the release of the Americana single, “Rolling On” on October 7. A classic ballad exploring the malaise and heartache endemic in modern life, it’s off the album, Between the Devil and Me, due out on October 15.
There was a feeling of quiet mundanity emerging amongst the changing colors when Garcia wrote the song during the first American pandemic lockdown in late spring 2020. This contemplation could be carried through all the seasons, asking the question, “Would the Fall be any different?” Garcia says, “It was like I could see the whole year spread out before me. I didn’t know at the time my mother would be diagnosed with cancer and be gone by October. In that context, the finishing of the tune through the recording and mixing process took on an entirely new gravity. The tune became something of a lullaby/singalong for myself and my family as we moved through the strangeness that had become everyday life.” Read more
Between the Devil and Me
Release Date: October 15, 2021
David Climaco Garcia announces the release of the Americana album, Between the Devil and Me, on October 15. Written in quarantine over the Summer of 2020, Between the Devil and Me confronts the demons that crawl out of closets when one sits alone for months in a room. Read more
Bio
David Climaco Garcia emerges from a mid-century highway culture that still dominates the American imagination. The Albuquerque-based songwriter draws from New Mexico’s Southwestern Americana, a blend of classic cowboy and country sensibilities mixed with his own Spanish and Native American lineage. Garcia says, “Growing up in Albuquerque, you’d be caught between these extreme down-and-dirty vibes that ranged from hip hop, punk rock, and a trucker meth culture that were all in your face and hard to escape, but it’s a really vibrant and multicultural city that I just feel at home and grounded in.”