Wells Ferrari is the brainchild of Will Wells and Mikey Ferrari, who grew up on bay shores on opposite ends of this country, bobbing and weaving through various calamities and pitfalls of youth before being saved by music, each in his own way. Landing in Los Angeles at one point or another, they dipped cowboy-booted toes into the sound machine – Mikey as a major label solo artist, Will as a guitar-gunslinger for hire on tours and in sessions – before recognizing that maybe all that glittered wasn’t in fact gold. Struggling to find any sense of musical or personal connection in the sprawling landscape, it was only when the two met during a routine writing session for another artist in 2019 that they recognized two things: one, that making music was still the only thing either wanted to do, and two, that this new, other person was what each had been searching for to round out their artistic self. Some people call it kismet, others fate; they simply call it Wells Ferrari.‍

“It was instant, when we met in that session while we were jamming,” Will says. “I knew I could relate to Mikey in a unique way, and after we hung out and played together that first time it just kind of never stopped. We had this connection, ‘Let’s just cook, let’s make something and do it for fun.’ It was the most natural thing in the world.”

“We both found music out of struggle and feeling alone, and have always chased songs for those reasons,” Mikey adds. “We’ve learned that you can feel like a part of something because of the music, and that’s what so much of this project is about. And that’s where our friendship kicks in. It sounds kind of cringe, but I was just like, ‘Fuck, this is my guy right here.’ In performing and writing, it takes so much of the pressure off by being able to share it with each other; you just feel so much less alone.”

Seizing on shared personal histories and enough musical influence overlapping to develop a shorthand, the pair recognized a freshness and an energy in their work, not to mention a sense of joy. The songs came quickly and were kept raw but true, with the duo insisting that one of the main strengths of the music was its sincerity. On a trip to the small town of 29 Palms, near Joshua Tree National Park, they began recording a handful of tunes, finding inspiration in the solitude, natural beauty, and vast openness of the desert while being able to lock in on the work in a place free of city distractions. Multiple return visits over several months yielded the first few batches of Wells Ferrari songs, collected in late 2024 in the form of their debut EP, Roots & Tides.

Laid out in full sun like a Nudie suit-wearing lizard on top of a bar-blues rock, the hallmark of a Wells Ferrari song will always be the twin voices. Trading verses and refrains then weaving together in moments of simple, gorgeous harmony, each singer sings his own heart out with urgency and raw emotion, yet the songs maintain a cool charm and never feel overwrought or disingenuous. “Gold Mine,” the first song the duo ever made together for the project, is filled with chipper crooning and upbeat guitar chime over a steady beat and an “I don’t even know who I am anymore” calling card, while “Powerlines” and its tales of fate, chasing demons, and falling on swords is a haunted, whiskey-fueled ride you could imagine being belted out in pitch dark on a humid summer night. Meanwhile, “Roots and Tides” is slick and catchy with its Dickey Betts slide riffs, sun-kissed tone, and musings on collision. As Will and Mikey will tell you, when it comes to Wells Ferrari, one plus one equals three. It is a shared offering, forged in heat and stillness yet infused with a kismet, kindred energy and kinetic spirit. Or whatever the hell you want to call it – they haven’t slowed down enough to care.‍

“Our music is more about inviting you into a world and less about buying into a person,” Will says. “It’s about harmony, like a collective; that, and honesty. We don’t have crazy-clean production; we go to this house in Joshua Tree and it kind of sounds like shit and we make it work. We feel like we have stuff to say, and we want people to relate to that. It has to feel natural. The music should always live in that world, and I think it does.”

“Wells Ferrari is a fusion of our influences, but to us it sounds like a conversation,” Mikey says. “It sounds like two best friends talking to each other, in a conversation the audience can participate in, too. We share so many similar experiences, so being able to write about those things has a different context. Talking to your best friend feels far more human than being a solo artist trying to present it in a song. As a solo artist, it feels like you’re just talking to the audience; this feels so much more community-based because we’re having a conversation that people are observing, and everyone’s a part of it. Singing together, sounding like one voice in harmony, sounds like the voice of a human being. It just feels greater than each of us.”

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