Biography
L.A.'s Pacific Range came together in 2017, blending sweet, flowing, airy country-rock melodies with a light jam-band sensibility as Grateful Dead-inspired successors to Beachwood Sparks. Guitarist, vocalist, and main songwriter Seamus Turner first crossed paths with drummer Nate Ward in 2013 during their music studies at California State University in Chico. The pair used campus resources to record an EP as Dakota Cree, which earned them several local performances. Once classes concluded, they relocated to Turner's family home in Los Angeles and began appearing under the name the Salty Spittoons. Bassist Cameron Wehrle saw one of their Hotel Café sets, connected with the group through a shared appreciation for the Dead, and soon joined alongside longtime friend Stewart Fogerty—who contributed keyboards and guitar while drawing on his prior experience in Echophonix—to complete the Pacific Range lineup. Their self-titled EP appeared in October 2017, after which the band maintained a rigorous schedule of up to five live shows per week throughout the city.
A Jam in the Van session arrived in June 2019, just before the quartet entered the studio with producers Dan Horne and Dave Schools to track their first full-length album. They pursued an unadorned, spontaneous feel rooted in the tight improvisational chemistry honed on the local scene. The sessions featured guest appearances by Duane Betts, son of Allman Brothers guitarist Dickey Betts, along with singer/songwriter Nikki Segal and Mapache's Clay Finch and Sam Blasucci. Jade Castrinos supplied backing vocals on "Nothing Else More" and subsequently became Pacific Range's fifth member. In March 2020, Beachwood Sparks' Brent Rademaker selected the resulting double-LP, High Upon the Mountain, to launch his Curation Records imprint.
A Jam in the Van session arrived in June 2019, just before the quartet entered the studio with producers Dan Horne and Dave Schools to track their first full-length album. They pursued an unadorned, spontaneous feel rooted in the tight improvisational chemistry honed on the local scene. The sessions featured guest appearances by Duane Betts, son of Allman Brothers guitarist Dickey Betts, along with singer/songwriter Nikki Segal and Mapache's Clay Finch and Sam Blasucci. Jade Castrinos supplied backing vocals on "Nothing Else More" and subsequently became Pacific Range's fifth member. In March 2020, Beachwood Sparks' Brent Rademaker selected the resulting double-LP, High Upon the Mountain, to launch his Curation Records imprint.
Albums
Singles
Live
