Album Notes

Off Beat Magazine
July 2000
Paul Sanchez -Sold Out at Carollton Station  (PSM)
by Missy Heckscher
Recorded amidst an enthusiastic uptown crowd, most of the songs on the live CD are a folksy, slow strummed tribute to the all-night escapades, cheap liquor and crawfish stews that make New Orleans the place that it is.
Sanchez breezes through the music with enough Louisiana references to satisfy most proud cajuns but retaining enough of a rock n' roll feel to reel in the college crowds.
The Sonoma Valley boys (Eddie Ecker, drums and vocals; Brendon O' Donnel, bass guitar; Skeeter Hanks, vocals and percussion; Mike Mayeux, lead guitar; and John Herbert, harmonica) add a subtle, low-key background to Sanchez' heartfelt lyrics.
My personal favorite, "I got drunk this Christmas", tells the tipsy tale of new Orleans holidays in a way that illustrates the gloriously lazy, perpetually festive attitude that only New Orleans understands. "I hope santa's bringing, an icy sloe-gin fizz," sanchez sings to the yelping delight of the audience. "It's so nice that you know the words to that line," he chuckles afterward. "Only in New Orleans ladies and gentlemen." Only in New Orleans indeed.