Pake Rossi’s three-week trek from Texas to Seattle, down the West coast and back, is the stuff great story songs are made of. After finishing his first record For All That It’s Worth, Pake and fellow songwriter Marshall Anderson got in his white van, aka “Vanna White,” and headed west. The result was empty pockets, a handful of timeless stories and most of the material for his second record, Mercy of the Mountain.