The Steel Wheels kicked off their 2017 tour with a rousing cd release show in front of a packed house at the Jefferson Theater in Charlottesville, VA. The band hit the stage with a truckload of energy and the crowd […]
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Hey kid, take a rip on that antihistamine and give these four new records a listen. First up, we’ve got the hell-raising barroom rock of Sarah Shook and her band, the Disarmers. As staff reviewer Maeri Ferguson so aptly puts it: Shook gives […]
Just when I think they can’t get any better, Trent Wagler and The Steel Wheels scrape me off the ceiling, to use their wording, with an astonishing outing. Songs that paste your pulse to your rib cage, throbbing, and heighten […]
If there is such a thing as the “offseason” for touring, winter tends to be it. While there are plenty of bands still gigging for those looking for a musical fix, others are using the colder weather to take a […]
Whenever the The Steel Wheels comes to town, the rubber hits the road with a rolling, fricative sound – a pushing forth of melody and movement with the vocal fix of lyrics layered in magic. Recently, the band, led by […]
Mipso’s charming and vivacious fiddler / vocalist / songwriter Libby Rodenbough, who’d been dressed in a startlingly tight, dazzlingly white outfit for their earlier Red Wing performance, said she almost burst (her) eardrums for a front-row dose of Dawes. at […]
Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains and Shenandoah Valley are fortunate to have Trent Wagler and The Steel Wheels band, not to mention Eastern Mennonite University that initially brought the band members here as students, not to mention the influence on the band […]
Coming out of Virginia The Steel Wheels, a four-piece band formed in 2004, has released its fourth album of soulful mountain roots music. With the opening notes you would think you purchased the wrong album. Lots of gritty voiced shouting […]
In the week leading up to this show, I heard a fair amount of The Steel Wheels’ music on the radio because they performed at a benefit for WUMB radio. I liked what I heard, but realized that this kind […]
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