Named after the river where countless summer nights were spent skateboarding, learning guitar and jamming with childhood bands, San Gabriel features 3-time Austin Music Award recipient James Bookert (Whiskey Shivers/Wild Child) splitting duties as writer, singer, producer and multi-instrumentalist.
It began as a side project behind the counter of J & J Spirits, an east Austin liquor store, where Bookert took a job between tours with his then band, Whiskey Shivers.
After gaining experience writing with musicians like Trinidad James, Raissa, producers Nate Donmoyer, Odie, and sharing the stage with DJ Khalid and Anna Kendrick (Pitch Perfect 3), Bookert began writing and recording for San Gabriel behind the counter of the liquor store and currently resides between Portland and Austin.