The Steel Woods w/ JB Strauss, Morgan Wade
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The Steel Woods w/ JB Strauss, Morgan Wade starts on Saturday, Feb 8, 2020 at 8:00pm. The venue for this event is 3rd & Lindsley located in Nashville, TN.
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- <p>Ticket sales end on Saturday, Feb 8, 2020.</p><p>**LIMITED SEATING AVAILABLE**The Steel Woods sophomore Thirty Tigers album,Old News, represents a creative leap for the southern roots rock songwriting team of Alabama native Wes Bayliss and his North Carolina partner Jason Rowdy Cope, who completed their first recordings barely months after they first met. Recorded in Asheville, NC at Echo Mountain Studios, the site of an old church during a six-day break in a hectic touring schedule, the new double-vinyl disc features more original songs and, for the first time, the whole band participated including the rhythm section of bassist Johnny Stanton and drummer Jay Tooke playing in a single room, cutting the tracks virtually live. We really hone in on what we do, our strengths as a band, establishing a musical identity, explains Wes about their latest effort. The first album, we were still figuring out our sound, so what came out, came out. This time, we had a premeditated blueprint, a real plan. The songwriting partnership between Bayliss and Cope continues to grow, mature and blossom. Over time, you find out a persons strengths and weaknesses, and it just happened to turn out his strengths are my weaknesses, and vice versa. Part Lynyrd Skynyrd, Allman Brothers, dual-guitar southern blues-rock with elements of Rs headlines, featuring mythic reverberations and social critiques to boot. The album mourns an idealized past but isnt afraid to point the way to a better future that enlists the best of both worlds. Like The Steel Woods previous release, death and mortality make their chilling presence felt, whether its in the collections cemetery-placed set piece, Rock That Says My Name, whose theme is classic Shelley Ozymandias, look upon ye works and despair or the vintage bluegrass country of Anna Lee, the culmination of a murder trilogy begun with Della Janes Heart on the last album and ending with the Neil Young/Crazy Horse-ish instrumental, Red River (The Fall of Jimmy Sutherland). That preoccupation spills over into an idiosyncratic cover of Townes Van Zandts The Catfish Song, and a special four-song epilogue that includes faithful tributes to artists who have passed away - Tom Petty (Southern Accent), Merle Haggard (the prescient Are The Good Times Really Over), Gregg Allman (Whipping Post as funeral dirge) and Alabama singer/songwriter Wayne Mills (the meditation on mortality, One of These Days). Just as on Straw in the Wind, theres a Black Sabbath cover, this time a take on Changes that transforms the song into a smooth Memphis-style Al Green soul croon, a nod to the cover by the late Charles Bradley.</p>
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