Courtesy picture / Reanna Galicia
Fancy, whose actual identify is Reanna Galicia, is supported by her backing band the Lucky Sons.
If there is a tear in your beer, you might need to thank Fancy and the Lucky Sons.
The San Antonio nation and western band is about to launch its debut album, Unhealthy Habits & a Damaged Coronary heart, on Friday, Sept. 6. The brand new launch is a list of laborious instances. The songs are based mostly on the actual hard-luck tales of frontwoman and songwriter Reanna Galicia, who goes by Fancy.
“The entire album is predicated on battle, whether or not it’s my previous substance abuse, life struggles or hustling like loopy to handle my youngsters,” mentioned Galicia, who’s juggling a music profession with the challenges of life as a single working mother.
The hardscrabble storytelling is exemplified in tracks together with “Pusher,” a music by which the driving rhythm displays the anxiousness of a life on the opposite facet of the legislation.
Reducing her tooth at native open mic nights over the previous couple years, Galicia commanded the stage along with her robust vocals and heartbreaking authentic songs. Ultimately, sufficient individuals took discover, permitting her to assemble a backing band, with the collective now going by Fancy and the Lucky Sons.
Fittingly, Galicia’s voice calls Reba McIntyre to thoughts, and it was McIntyre who recorded probably the most well-liked variations of the Bobbie Gentry music “Fancy,” the story of one other hard-luck girl and Galicia’s self-given namesake. On the brand new album’s bouncy western swing observe “Clankity Clank,” Galicia’s dexterous yodels harken to the good Patsy Cline as nicely.
The album was recorded at NGL Data in “El Mero Weso,” (San Antonio’s West Facet) proper throughout the road from Patio Andaluz, a chunk of San Anto historical past. Little Henry Lee of the Laveers, who visited Galicia within the studio, additionally will share the stage along with her for an album launch get together scheduled for Friday, Sept. 6 at Jaime’s Place. The outside venue is true subsequent to the studio the place the album took form.
The discharge get together may also function masters of ceremony Rodawg and Johnie Warfare, units by DJ Cami and others, together with smashed burgers from Burger Foos. Galicia’s occasion on the puro San Anto setting, blessed by forebears of the West Facet Sound, will function one thing of a bridge between two of San Antonio’s strongest identities, Chicano and nation —each of which reside inside Fancy.
“Though we consider Sunny [Ozuna] first after we suppose West Facet Sound, I believe Doug Sahm,” mentioned Galicia. “And what I am making an attempt to do is preserve the San Antonio spirit alive by way of my very own type of sound.”
This is your likelihood, Fancy. Do not allow us to down.
