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Artist
Wrightwood
4+ albums
about
”There’s something particularly important to me there,” says Peter Mercado cryptically about the small town Wrightwood in the mountains of San Bernardino County in Southern California. He’s chosen that locale’s name as the title to his latest solo effort, a collection of songs that embody the soul of an artist who is re-acclimating himself to the world of music after a prolonged absence. But despite the small town moniker, Wrightwood’s songs are in no way provincial in their appeal. They capture a universal yearning that threads through the best of modern-day singer-songwriters and reaches back to the earliest traveling bards whose songs mesmerized audiences in innumerable locales. Wrightwood reflects, with an uncanny prescience, the hopes and sorrows of the listener who has experienced the volatilities of love and life – a talent that’s essential in creating (so-called) timeless music. But lest that sensibility may sound a bit too heady, the songs’ sentiments are discreetly wrapped in melodies of unearthly beauty that at once disarm and invite you into their world. Peter Mercado spent the formative years of his life in the farmlands of the Coachella Valley, witnessing Cesar Chavez-led labor rallies and coping with the loneliness of a child growing up in a working class family where the adults spent long hours away on the job. It was that loneliness that prompted Peter to pen his first song, “Latchkey Kid”, while still in high school. After graduation and a stint in the Navy
