Name: Sideways
Brand: The Steel Wheels

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

BRR011

Colour

Black

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2024-02-16

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Supplier GB

PIAS

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Standard:20

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0198168948842

Total Cap

Black LP

Artist

The Steel Wheels

Genre GB

Folk

Label GB

Big Ring Records

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Virginia-based folk-rock band The Steel Wheels have spent almost twenty years writing, recording, and touring, all the while constantly honing their evolving brand of American roots music. Additionally they are the founders and hosts of the Red Wing Roots Music Festival, a beloved staple of the Shenandoah Valley. Through the years, The Steel Wheels have drawn on both traditional form and modern sounds to capture the beauty in all of life's varied trials and triumphs. Their new album, Sideways, via Big Ring Records, is a meditation on resilience and survival. Trent Wagler, the band's lead singer and primary songwriter, penned many of the songs in response to loss, and the uncertainty that comes with facing what we can't control. Sonically, Sideways encapsulates the band's most ambitious outing to date. At their inception, The Steel Wheels played exclusively on acoustic instruments, around one mic, drawing inspiration from the mountain music and string band traditions of Virginia, where the band was formed. But 2017's Wild As We Came Here represented an evolution in the band's sound. It was then they first collaborated with producer Sam Kassirer (Lake Street Dive, Langhorne Slim, Josh Ritter), adding sonic textures and pushing the boundaries of what the band's sound could be. This same chapter also saw the addition of Kevin Garcia (drums, percussion, and keys) to the band. For the recording of Sideways in 2022, The Steel Wheels once again tapped Kassirer to help them bring the album to life. The band holed up together at the Great North Sound Society in Parsonsfield, ME, moving into the studio for a week, cooking their meals together around a woodstove in a farmhouse, and, most importantly, playing all together again-for the first time in over two years. The result is at-once a powerful, anthemic, at-times joyous, and contemplative reflection on our shared human experience - both tapping into the personal and reaching for something universal. And all throughout Sideways, we hear and see the image of resilience, resolve, and strength despite the trials. We are reminded that we are all still here... pushed and bent by the wind, yes, but still standing.

Sideways

Music GB

Discover Sideways by The Steel Wheels. Virginia-based folk-rock band's new album on Big Ring Records. A powerful reflection on resilience and strength.