1. Early life

2. Career
     Jonathan Wilson    Cass McCombs    Circles Around the Sun    The Skiffle Players    Grateful Shred    Lone Palm Studio  

3. Producer and writer discography
     With Cass McCombs    With Circles Around The Sun    With The Skiffle Players    With Jonathan Wilson  

4. Additional discography
     Artists recorded and/or mixed at Lone Palm Studio  

5. References

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• Beachwood Sparks
• Cass McCombs
• Jonathan Wilson
• Circles Around the Sun
• Grateful Shred
• The Skiffle Players}}

Dan Horne (born January 2, 1978) is an American bass guitarist, record producer, audio engineer, mixing engineer, and multi-instrumentalist based in Echo Park, Los Angeles. Horne is currently the bassist of Circles Around The Sun, Cass McCombs, The Skiffle Players, and Grateful Shred, and his production and instrumentalist credits include records by Beachwood Sparks, Jonathan Wilson, Allah-Las, The Chapin Sisters, and The Growlers.

Early life

Horne was born in San Francisco, California and grew up in the town of Palo Alto. He counts Johnny Cash, Primus, Metallica and Bob Marley as formative musical influences. After attending Reed College in Portland, Oregon, Horne began touring as bass guitarist with artists such as Ben Kweller and On The Speakers, eventually moving to Los Angeles in 2001.^[1]

Career

Jonathan Wilson

Horne began playing with singer/songwriter Jonathan Wilson in 2010, touring as the opening act for Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers on their 2012 European tour

Cass McCombs

Horne has produced, mixed, and played bass guitar on two albums by Cass McCombs, Mangy Love (2016) and Tip of the Sphere (2019). In a review of Tip of the Sphere, Pitchfork stated, “The interplay between McCombs’ guitar and Dan Horne’s bass on the record’s more upbeat tracks, like ‘Train Robbery’ or ‘Rounder,’ even recalls the energy shared by legendary tandems, like Townshend and Entwistle, say, or Duane Allman and Berry Oakley. (Horne showed this clear chemistry with McCombs during Mangy Love.)” ^[6] Horne has regularly toured as McCombs’ bassist since 2015. ^[7]

Circles Around the Sun

Guitarist Neal Casal started Circles Around The Sun after he was asked to compose original music for the Dead’s “Fare Thee Well” reunion shows in 2015. Invited by Justin Kreutzmann (the son of Grateful Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann), Circles Around The Sun’s music played behind Kreutzmann’s visuals that were projected during the “Fare Thee Well” concert intermissions.^[8]

Circles Around The Sun consists of Casal (guitarist of the Chris Robinson Brotherhood), bassist Dan Horne, keyboard player Adam MacDougall (also in the Brotherhood), and drummer Mark Levy. The band released the music from the “Fare Thee Well” shows on their first LP, Interludes for the Dead, in 2015. In his album review of their 2018 release, Rolling Stone writer David Fricke said, “Let It Wander is a two-CD set of even deeper spells that thread suggestions of Little Feat–style grooves and Bernie Worrell’s percolating synthesizers in Parliament-Funkadelic through the German mid-Seventies space travel of Tangerine Dream and the offbeat churn of the Dead’s ‘Estimated Prophet.’”^[9]

The Skiffle Players

In 2013, Horne joined drummer Aaron Sperske (Lilys, Elliott Smith), lap steel guitarist “Farmer” Dave Scher (Beachwood Sparks), guitarist Neal Casal, and singer Cass McCombs to form The Skiffle Players. With a sound described by Pitchfork writer Jazz Monroe as “backwoods folk, lap-steel-infused country, and elaborate West Coast jams,”^[10] the band has released two LPs – Skifflin’ (2016) and Skiff (2018) – and 2013’s Piffle Sayers EP on the Spiritual Pajamas label.

Grateful Shred

In 2016, Horne joined singer/songwriter Austin McCutchen to create Grateful Shred, a Grateful Dead tribute band. Known for their faithful yet expressive covers of 1960s and 1970s-era Grateful Dead, the band also includes Sam Blasucci and Clay Finch of psych-country duo Mapache on vocals and guitars. According to Relix Magazine’s Richard B. Simon, “There’s a freshness and a hunger to Grateful Shred’s sound—this is a young band of players in their prime.”^[11]

Also known for their creative merchandise, Grateful Shred has collaborated on several items with Online Ceramics, led by designers Elijah Funk and Alix Ross. “Funk and Ross mix the psychedelic skull and roses imagery of the bootleg merch hawked in parking lots outside Dead shows with the punk and hip-hop aesthetic of high-fashion streetwear”. ^[12] The band has toured the United States and headlined rooms such as New York’s Brooklyn Bowl.^[13]

Lone Palm Studio

Horne owns and operates Lone Palm Studio in Echo Park, Los Angeles. The studio is known for its analog tape recording gear, including a Yamaha PM2000 console, MCI 24-track 2” and Ampex ATR-102 ½” tape machines, an EMT 140 plate reverb, and custom outboard pieces from Ian Sefchick (Magic Death Eye).^[1]

Producer and writer discography

With Cass McCombs

• 2019: Tip of the Sphere, Anti- (LP) (Producer, mixer, bass guitar)
• 2016: Mangy Love, Anti- (LP) (Producer, mixer, bass guitar)

With Circles Around The Sun

• 2018: Let It Wander, Rhino Records (LP) (Bass guitar)
• 2015: Interludes for the Dead, Rhino Records (LP) (Bass guitar)

With The Skiffle Players

• 2019: Skiff, Spiritual Pajamas (LP) (Producer, mixer, bass guitar)
• 2017: Piffle Sayers, Spiritual Pajamas (EP) (Producer, mixer, bass guitar)
• 2016: Skifflin’, Spiritual Pajamas (LP) (Producer, mixer, bass guitar)

With Jonathan Wilson

• 2018: Rare Birds, Bella Union (LP) (Moog bass)
• 2018: Fanfare, Bella Union (LP) (Bass guitar)

Additional discography

Artists recorded and/or mixed at Lone Palm Studio

• Vulfpeck
• Lilys
• Bleached
• Cults
• Guards
• Liars
• Hot Hot Heat
• The Growlers
• Caroline Polachek
• Tobias Jesso Jr.

References

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