Recognized for its uplifting, sweetly melodic alternative CCM, Above the Golden State features the tunes of singer and songwriter Michael Watson. The project landed on the Billboard Christian chart with its self-titled debut LP in 2008. After a brief name change in the mid-2010s, Above the Golden State returned in 2018 with Nations.
Based out of Portland, Oregon, Watson recorded his first Above the Golden State album with bass guitarist Chad Howat, drummer Jeremy Lutito, and producer/multi-instrumentalist Steve Wilson. Arriving via Sparrow Records in 2008, it offered the Ch...