Lost Lake Presents Wells Ferrari on Saturday, July 11 —
At the heart of Wells Ferrari is a brotherhood. Not of blood, but of something equally as strong, equally as connecting: a shared commitment of purpose. Driven by the relentless, impassioned pursuit of songcraft, harmony, and creative freedom, together they deliver, as one, the collective voice of two musical brothers.
First crossing paths in 2019 at a songwriting session in Los Angeles, the respective journeys of Will Wells and Mikey Ferrari originated on opposite shorelines — Wells calls home Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay, while Ferrari hails from the Bay Area of California. Both left town as teens: Wells to Boston’s Berklee College of Music; Ferrari to the ranchland of Montana.
Fast friends, the pair ceaselessly played guitars and wrote songs, with Ferrari crashing on Wells’ Los Angeles couch. Almost instinctively, their voices blended in undeniable harmonic bliss as they bonded over classic rock, particularly the timeless imprint of The Eagles and The Allman Brothers Band.
They are a kindred duo, creating in partnership on a truly even split. “It really is, and always has been since the first day, the two of us sitting down and writing,” says Wells. “Lyrically and musically, it’s very equal.”
On an escape from Los Angeles, they headed east to Twentynine Palms, a dusty town in the shadow of Joshua Tree National Park. With producer Garrett Hall, a childhood buddy of Wells, the three set-up shop for a weekend recording session at a rented, desolate destination. Call it glorified camping, their makeshift studio came complete with intermittently available water, no AC, and a host of desert rats, spiders, and other critters. Dubbed ‘The Adobe,’ the barren confines quickly became the beloved, creative clubhouse for Wells Ferrari.
The duo also hit the road in earnest, supporting dates on tours with folk duo Briscoe, or singer-songwriter friends, Matt Maeson, and Evan Honer, undertaking jaunts across the U.S. and Europe. “Our biggest goal, in the way we’re building this, is to establish and grow a community,” says Ferrari. “We try and go out there and invite everybody in.”
Their subsequent sessions at The Adobe produced enough tracks for their debut EP Roots and Tides, and then another; the second of which, Wasted Time, released in fall of 2025. Confessional, conversational, and pure, the seven-song set sheds any artifice of affectation, instead presenting Wells and Ferrari as they are, mining their collective stormy past as prologue to a future as hopeful as the SoCal sun. Love found and lost, hardship, doubt, struggle and triumph- the choices that pull us away or lead us back again- these themes of human existence are the bedrock of the Wells Ferrari narrative and ever-growing repertoire.
