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The Wild West (pictured L-R) Manda Mosher, Deb Morrison, Amilia K Spicer, Tawny Ellis, Pi Jacobs, and Heather Anne Lomax

Calling themselves The Wild West, six of the most treasured and individually highly successful female singer-songwriters in Los Angeles, release their new and second single and video today, “Comes A Time” (Neil Young), produced by Tawny Ellis and Manda Mosher and mixed by the legendary Bob Clearmountain. The six members of The Wild West are Manda Mosher, Deb Morrison, Amilia K Spicer, Tawny Ellis, Pi Jacobs, and Heather Anne Lomax.

The Wild West shows their vintage roots on “Comes A Time.” Written by living legend Neil Young, the song is a wise and gentle bit of Americana that feels like a love letter to Planet Earth written by a heart intent on healing. The all-female band play and sing this classic song like the pros they are and infuse it with a new level of humanity that’s completely irresistible. The recording also features Scarlet Rivera (Bob Dylan) on violin.

For this new release, Tawny Ellis chose to bring in Neil Young’s “Comes A Time” due to her deep love and connection to the song. She envisioned the harmonies of The Wild West in combination with Scarlet Rivera’s violin parts weaving throughout. The video celebrates the beauty of nature and the West Coast.

“This song has always spoken to me on a deep level. I love Neil’s writing and I brought it to the band because I thought it would be gorgeous to see what us ladies could do with it, and I was right. The video is an ode to our beautiful earth, the pacific coast line and my deep love for it and how it inspires all of us. It’s an honor to have Scarlet Rivera’s energy on this. She is such a lover of nature and this song. This video is a celebration of the beauty of our world and all of us in it.” – Tawny

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“Comes A Time” became a special comfort that was healing for us to play as a band in rehearsals. The harmonies and all the ladies’ instrumental parts weave together beautifully like a community banding together to weather all that lay ahead.” – Manda

The Wild West is currently working on their upcoming EP. All six members write, produce, and oversee the recording process for the songs they bring to the band. They take turns singing lead while supporting each other instrumentally and topping each song with their signature harmonies.

During a particularly frightening time in lockdown in the summer of 2020, Mosher shared just a spark of a song idea with the group. As it gradually took shape, their first single “Better Way” became a thoughtful reflection on our times, a rallying cry, and a source of comfort for all six women.

“What started as an online happy hour during quarantine turned into a series of long, soulful conversations about the state of the world, our personal lives, and of course, music,” Morrison says. “Communicating via our computer screens was surreal at first, but once we got the hang of it, we let our cocktails and freak flags fly and never looked back. We had no idea that this would be the beginning of a new musical journey and the birth of our first song.”

Speaking of their first single, “The song came out of a desire to bring more ideas of unity and hope into our troubled times. I went out into the studio and started the song inspired by our group discussions,” Mosher recalls. I sent the start of it off to the girls for collaboration and we all ended up with a similar lyrical vision of hope.”

“We all knew and respected one another in the local scene, but it wasn’t until Covid that we really got to know each other,” Spicer adds. “The few times we were able to get together in person, distanced, the joy of singing together and playing our instruments was very cathartic. Aside from being women in the music business who have experienced many of the same challenges along the way (enough there for a book!), we all have a desire to make sense of the world right now. And we want to put a voice to it.”

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