"CITY OF ANGELS" MUSIC VIDEO - OUT NOW
Bon Chance
Bon’ Chance—a Nashville-meets-Los Angeles troubadour whose songs feel excavated from smoke and memory. With a voice like scorched velvet and lyrics steeped in loss, beauty, and resilience, Mercer crafts a cinematic kind of Americana noir.
A multi-instrumentalist, producer, and engineer, Mercer came up through Nashville’s songwriting tradition before relocating to Los Angeles. His debut single, City of Angels, features real wildfire survivors—including an African American gospel choir from Alta Dena whose own church was lost in the flames—heard on the track and seen in the haunting accompanying video.
A devastating, cinematic musical debut—and one hell of a warning shot.
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Like The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, it carries the weight of history and fate. Yet its slow-burning groove also
evokes the murky, dreamlike atmosphere of Robbie Robertson’s Somewhere Down the Crazy River. It’s both
cinematic and intimate, prophetic and personal—a song that feels like it was written in the ashes of something once
beloved.
City of Angels doesn’t just tell a story—it leaves a scar. With its lived-in voice, elegiac tone, and the real-life presence of those who endured the fires—both in sound and on screen—this is more than a song. It’s a requiem. A tribute. A reckoning. If this is only the beginning, Bon' Chance may well be one of the last great American troubadours to rise from the fire.