Dayne Pack

Singer-songwriter with a direct, cosmic style, and a knack for rhyme, and raw- narrative storytelling, Dayne Pack began his music career as a drummer, after first trying his hand at singing on stage for the first time at 8 years old with his dad and uncle’s band and deciding at the time that drums would be his thing. Born in Big Spring, TX and raised in Merkel, TX where his dad, the youngest of 10 children was born and raised and had worked as a sharecropper along with the entire family as early as age 3, and lived the first few years of his life on the outskirts of town, without running water. With hardly any money, times were of course tough, but that didn’t stop the Pack family from all gathering around the living room at night as their dad(Dayne’s grandfather) did what he and his brothers did a generation before—played songs on guitar or fiddle, while everyone played or sang along, including the matriarch of the family(Dayne’s grandma, first cousin of the father of Western Swing, Milton Brown). They grew up and 4 of the 8 brothers formed the country band “Ray Pack and Halfbreed”, having their own local TV show “The Ray Pack Show” and touring the country with stars such as George Jones, Conway Twitty, Johnny Paycheck, and many more throughout the 1970’s. Their career was at a promising incline when they disbanded after their manager, Audrey Williams(Mother of Hank Williams JR and former wife of Hank Williams) died unexpectedly, blowing the wind out of the sails for Ray and all 4 brothers in the band, who’s newest and most career defining record was never released due to legal binding issues through the Williams’ estate.

Fast forward twenty years to a smoky bar somewhere in Texas or New Mexico, and there’s a two year old Dayne Pack sleeping on a stage behind his dad’s drums, to the tequila soaked sounds and vibrations of drums, bass, telecaster, fiddle and pedal steel guitar, with his mother no more than a few tables away.

Dayne has always had a gift with art in more ways than one. He drew his first detailed pencil sketch at age 3 and with the praise of his mom, didn’t stop, then he began writing poems at age 6. He won first place at the Dog Bone Art Festival as just a Kindergartner and in second grade, a poem of his was selected among other students around the United States and was published in a book called “Celebrating Poetry, Fall 2002”.

He started playing paying gigs on the drums in high school for several local Abilene acts including a band of friends from school called One Last Drive, when he met Garrett Bryan at a local music venue and they became fast friends. Dayne then moved to Fort Worth while drumming for Kyle Fambro, then known as TC Fambro & The Copperheads and began co-writing some of Kyle’s songs and briefly worked as co-owner of a magazine and music media company called Rattle, known now as “The Shake”.

In 2015 Dayne left everything behind and started pursuing a singer-songwriter career and hasn’t looked back. He’s since had songs recorded by Skylar Payne, Callahan Divide, Kyle Fambro, Garrett Bryan and the Traveling City Committee, as well as recording his own two-part concept album called A tale of the Modern West Part 1 and 2, about the correlation of different time periods in the west, painted in a respectful, honest and sometimes whimsical light, with reoccurring themes and imagery through the character’s lens as he goes through stages of grief, constantly longing for the home he seems to always run from, or in some cases, “wreck” or “rob”, produced by Garrett Bryan and Jordan Tyler Haynes, following his debut single “Too Proud” in 2019.

Dayne Currently lives in Ballinger, TX in an old nursing home turned apartments where he continues to live his life as its own art piece, spending most of his time painting or writing; and planning.