Neat keepsake of the rising local’s primal folk-blues, recorded “live from the Good Music Club” at the North Door last August, with a woodcut-like cover illo by Austin bass and scene vet Chepo Peña. Garage-y, fuzz-strum as backed by his one-man tambourine shake and suitcase bass drum percussion, Alejandro Rose-Garcia’s mountain holler grits pleasingly throaty with falsetto accents. His original B-side, almost a mini-suite wired by a goosed riff, beats a stripped pulse at multiple speeds, the buggy vocal recalling ATX’s seminal one-man band, Scott H. Biram.

This article appears in August 30 • 2013.

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San Francisco native Raoul Hernandez crossed the border into Texas on July 2, 1992, and began writing about music for the Chronicle that fall, debuting with an album review of Keith Richards’ Main Offender. By virtue of local show previews – first “Recommendeds,” now calendar picks – his writing’s appeared in almost every issue since 1993.