The Steel Wheels are an Americana/folk outfit from the Blue Ridge Mountains near Harrisonburg, VA. They've been playing together in various configurations since 2005. I'd hazard guess that the Rootstone Jug Band might've shared a bill with them at some point along the way.
Lead singer and primary songwriter Trent Wagler happens to have a daughter who's a second-year dance student at Virginia Commonwealth University, just a couple years behind my kid. Wagler's daughter took over the VCUarts dance program's Instagram this morning. And that's how I happened upon this beautiful song and video from the band's new record, which features Wagler's kid and some of her colleagues at VCU. I couldn't love it more, unless my kid was one of the dancers featured. As it is, several of their friends are.
That is awesome, and an enjoyable tune to boot.
ReplyDeleteyeah, it's got a great spirit to it. and i dig the tune, too.
ReplyDeletethe steel wheels put on the red wing festival each year, and it looks like a sweet few days of tunes: https://www.redwingroots.com/
ReplyDeleteNever played a show with the steel wheels, but I think we at least corresponded about it way back when.
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