The Steel Wheels Release 'Wild As We Came Here'

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In March, the band released the video for "Scrape Me Off The Ceiling" exclusively with Folk Alley. The video is comprised of footage from their week-long recording session in producer Sam Kassirer's (Josh Ritter, Lake Street Dive, Elephant Revival) rural Maine farmhouse-turned-studio and Red Wing Roots Music Festival, a 3 day music experience the band started in Mt. Solon, Virginia. Read a short interview with Trent Wagler and watch the video here.

Wild As We Came Here is a significant leap for the band, which started its journey in 2004. Trent Wagler, Brian Dickel, and Eric Brubaker studied at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, Virginia, about an hour from Charlottesville. Wagler and Dickel were in a punk/alternative band until acoustic music lured them in. Wagler soon started crafting songs and learned flat-picking. Dickel took classes on building guitars. They briefly played as a duo before Brubaker joined on fiddle. Jay Lapp eventually came on board after getting to know the band from the local folk circuit. In 2010, following a variety of EPs and LPs, the ensemble officially branded itself as The Steel Wheels, a tip of the hat to steam-powered trains, industrial progress, and the buggies of their Mennonite lineage.

Then as now, The Steel Wheels' style weaves through Americana and bluegrass music, folk and old-time music, and the acoustic poetry of the finest singer-songwriters. By incorporating percussion and keyboards into the sessions for the first time, Wild As We Came Here adds new textures to their catalog, as themes of discovery and perseverance run throughout the collection.

For more information, please visit https://www.thesteelwheels.com/.

Read interviews with The Boot, KMUW, Huffington Post, Wide Open Country, Knoxville News Sentinel, American Songwriter, The Daily Progress, The Vinyl District, and more.

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