NAMED #1 BAND TO WATCH IN 2008 BY AMERICAN SONGWRITER
TOUR DATES ALSO ANNOUNCED
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NAMED #1 BAND TO WATCH IN 2008 BY AMERICAN SONGWRITER
TOUR DATES ALSO ANNOUNCED
Burlington, MA - The SteelDrivers' self-titled debut on Rounder Records is getting everyone's attention! Currently the album is #4 on Billboard's Top Bluegrass Albums Chart, #13 on Amazon.com's Bestsellers in Music, and American Songwriter magazine has just named The SteelDrivers their #1 "Band to Watch in 2008." Upcoming tour dates are listed below with more to be added soon.
The SteelDrivers were recently featured on CMT's "Unplugged at Studio 330." Watch the session here: http://www.cmt.com/music/unplugged/performance/steel_drivers/1581801/performance.jhtml
"If you want to hear real country music -- the kind with just-short-of-reckless picking on acoustic instruments and naturally vivid vocal harmonies -- these days you turn to bluegrass. If you want to hear something different in bluegrass, you turn to the SteelDrivers...Varied, bright and as real as if the band were playing in your living room, The SteelDrivers should please fans of traditional bluegrass, country, folk and the acoustic ventures of Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead...There's not a dud on the disc...The SteelDrivers' music is organic and unsoiled by studio trickery, the kind that has plasticized contemporary country."
- Jim Fusilli, Wall Street Journal
"The SteelDrivers earn their name not only with Chris Stapleton's hard, hoarse shout but also with the relentless attack of Tammy Rogers' fiddle and Mike Henderson's mandolin...the group has galvanized into a force in bluegrass and beyond." - Brian Mansfield, USA Today
"...this debut album {is} brimming with both spirit and experienced chops."
"...when the strings are all buzzing and the harmonies take flight, there are plenty of reasons to grin."
- Steve Hochman, Los Angeles Times
"They bring a hint of rock and soul and give an exciting new edge and texture to the music."
- Nick Cristiano, Philadelphia Inquirer
"The SteelDrivers demonstrates the effortlessness with which their songwriting crosses genre boundaries."
- Country Weekly
"...different from anything else out there these days...has created praise and excitement."
- Peter Cooper, The Tennessean
"The SteelDrivers combine backwoods bluegrass with deep-fried soul. On this track, grassy banjo player Richard Bailey is front and center. But Chris Stapleton's voice blazes with blues abandon. This stuff is hot."
- Bob Oermann, Music Row
"... [An] iron-belted rhythm, combined with (Chris) Stapleton's gritty howl, instantly separates The SteelDrivers from the score of sharp-playing bluegrass bands that have stepped forward this decade...it's the strength of the band's songwriting that will make the music endure."
- Michael McCall, Nashville Scene
"...no hype, just pure talent..."
- Travis Tackett, Bluegrass Journal.com
"...new, unique and refreshing."
- Bob Cherry, Cybergrass
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Upcoming Tour Dates:
March 27 Bama Theatre Tuscaloosa, AL
March 29 The Station Inn Nashville, TN
April 11 Bluegrass Returns to its Roots Festival Owensboro, KY
April 25 The Station Inn Nashville, TN
May 24 Jammin at Hippy Jack's Americana Festival Crawford, TN
Jul 19, 09:36 AMI am so glad you guys were on Conan O'Brien last night--I am now a permanent fan; you're just what I've been waiting to hear in contemporary music!!!!!!