I had the pleasure of attending a Steel Wheels concert in the small-venue intimate setting of Swallow Hill Music. Our daughter is friends with the primary fellows, having met two of them at undergraduate school at Eastern Mennonite University. A third band member is the son of a fellow that I went to school with at Goshen College.
Trent Wagler is the front man for the band, and is a very talented singer, musician and song writer, and his bio can be found here. He has a distinctive sound that I like. Jay Lapp is the guitar and mandolin player and a bit of info about Jay can be found here. The third primary member is fiddle player Eric Brubaker who writes here.
Their live performance was impressive in several ways from musicianship to clarity of delivery to song content. I was very impressed with the variation in styles - way too often bands play a couple of songs and then they all begin to sound alike. Not so with the Steel Wheels - a very enjoyable evening indeed.
Enjoy a concert!!
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