Join KBAC and Southwest Roots Music's kickoff bash to the 2008 season with New Mexico's finest and best known roots artists—the Santa Fe Allstars. What began as a "why not" proposal by a beer-hall waitress has gone on to become something of a small-town supergroup, and this, finally, is their debut CD release celebration. The Santa Fe All-Stars consist of roots luminaries Joe West, Sharon Gilchrist, Ben Wright and Susan Holmes, all brilliant on their own—at least according to the locals of New Mexico's capital city.West, of course, has long been the slightly askew alt.country king of Santa Fe, a songwriter as smart and talented as they come and completely fearless when it comes to either campy parody or straight-up emotion. Gilchrist (from the Peter Rowan & Tony Rice Quartet) continues to enchant audiences with her glorious musicianship and lovely countenance; Wright, a man just as comfortable ripping through a weird rock set as fingerpicking through an old standard, is as indispensable as they come, and Holmes has been a rhythm section stalwart for years. Collectively they are a can't-lose proposition. Their type of roots music—smart, fun, a little twisted—is the soundtrack to Santa Fe.