BORIS GARCIA
How bands begin is a perfect mix of the accidental - Keith meets Mick at a train station and spots the record under his arm, Bob hears Jerry playing banjo on a winter night, Paul decides to go to the Woolton Garden Fete and sees John - and the predestined; bands happen because they’re meant to be, because they contain an energy that simply must find expression.

Boris Garcia isn’t a person but a band, an ensemble that starts with what is called jamgrass – “We’re all folkies at heart,” remarked one band member – but also fuses a dozen strands of American music into a rich, ever-evolving whole. Bluegrass, jazz, rock, folk, Celtic, soul, blues – you can hear them all. It is a band that didn’t even start out to be a band, merely a recording project. But once these old acquaintances started making music together, the music created its own momentum; they played for a friend’s party, and realized they were a band, and haven’t stopped since.

Jeff Otto (vocals, bass, guitar, ukulele), Bob Stirner (vocals, guitar, bass), Bud Burroughs (mandolin, bouzouki, button accordion, Hammond organ) and Stephe Ferraro (drums, percussion) have been part of the Philadelphia performing music scene for the past 20 years, sharing bandstands – sometimes bands – and falling in and out of studio sessions with each other.

The sessions for “Boris Garcia’s Family Reunion” quickly moved from a demo reel to a CD and the rest is history – thrust suddenly in opening slots for The New Riders of the Purple Sage, Little Feat, Railroad Earth, Jackson Browne, Hot Tuna, and David Bromberg.

Their second release, Mother’s Finest, earned them even more applause for well-crafted songs and superior production. Once More Into the Bliss their third effort, produced by Railroad Earth’s Tim Carbone and featuring sit-ins by Buddy Cage (New Riders), Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay (Grateful Dead) and Carbone will take them to the next level.
Gaining buzz quality momentum with constant national touring, radio airplay and critical acclaim, Boris Garcia has in short order turned their dreams into reality.

The name? “We were in the studio with a bunch of different guitarists. One of them was Tony Rice style, and the other was Flamenco/Middle Eastern. East meets West, and it was definitely odd, “This is weird, this is like Boris Garcia’s Family Reunion.” A little tribute to Jerry Garcia, a little to Bullwinkle, and a lot of serendipity – that’s Boris Garcia.

BORIS GARCIA
producer's notes on the soon to be released new album...
The first time I heard the demos for “Once More Into The Bliss” I knew I had to produce this record. The songs spoke to me immediately; hearing the full blown arrangements and production in my mind as I listened. It’s a rare thing indeed to have three very different and talented songwriters in one band and still maintain a group personality. And the songs led us, almost demanding to be presented in the form you now hear. It was an intense journey to the heart of these songs. All too short but oh so sweet. And now they are loose on the world for all to dig. Here’s hoping the world enjoys listening to them half as much as I had helping them be born.

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