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GospelbeacH
12+ albums
americanaAlt-countrypower popUSAcosmic country
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The Los Angeles group GospelbeacH's sound harks back to several eras of California music, from folk-rock and sunshine pop to country-rock and the paisley underground. Fronted by Brent Rademaker of Beachwood Sparks and filled out by like-minded friends, the band debuted with an album that respectfully lifted the spirit and sound of early-'70s Grateful Dead (2015's Pacific Surf Line,) then jumped ahead a few years to the jangling pop of Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers on 2017's Another Summer of Love. By 2019, they'd added lush, Laurel Canyon-inspired vibes to the mix on third LP Let It Burn. The band formed in 2014 around vocalist and guitarist Brent Rademaker, who in the '90s and 2000s had made a name for himself in the bands Beachwood Sparks, Further, and the Tyde. Rademaker had grown disenchanted with music as a career after the release of Beachwood Sparks' 2012 album The Tarnished Gold, and spent a few years in Florida, where he worked at a gallery framing artwork. But after Rademaker reconnected with drummer Tom Sanford, who had played in an early lineup of Beachwood Sparks, the two began jamming together for fun and Rademaker felt the urge to form a new band to play the songs he'd been writing with Sanford. Back in California, Rademaker and Sanford got in touch with guitarist and singer Neal Casal, another former member of Beachwood Sparks who had also launched a solo career when not busy recording and touring with Ryan Adams & the Cardinals and the Chris Robinson Brother
