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The Steel Woods

A quartet of Southern rock traditionalists from Nashville, the Steel Woods lay claim to the sound pioneered by Lynyrd Skynyrd. Like Skynyrd, the Steel Woods balance heavy blues-rock with Southern poetry, and they add a bit of plain-spoken outlaw country to the mix, as evidenced on their 2017 debut, Straw in the Wind, and 2019 sophomore effort, Old News. Two years later, the band released All of Your Stones, the last studio LP to feature co-founder Jason Cope, who passed away in January 2021. The semi-conceptual On Your Time appeared two years later on the band’s Woods Music label in partnership with Thirty Tigers. Prior to forming the Steel Woods, guitarists Wes Bayliss and Jason "Rowdy" Cope were both pursuing musical careers. Cope found work as a session musician and played in Jamey Johnson's band, but once he met Bayliss at a Nashville gig, the two clicked. They became friends and wound up collaborating, adding bassist Johnny Stanton and drummer Jay Tooke to round out their lineup. An eponymous EP came out in 2016, and the next year saw the release of Straw in the Wind on Thirty Tigers/Woods Music. A cover of Tom Petty's "Southern Accents" arrived in December 2018 as the first track off their 2019 full-length, Old News. Co-founder Jason "Rowdy" Cope passed away on January 16, 2021, shortly after the band had completed their third studio long-player. The resulting All of Your Stones, which included the inspirational, Cope co-penned title cut, arrived later that May. In keeping with the narrative-forward tradition of the band's early works, 2023's On Your Time saw the Steel Woods revisit Uncle Lloyd, a character who first appeared on 2017's Straw in the Wind. Rooted in muscular yet introspective Southern rock and classic troubadour country, the ambitious ten-song set, which included the singles "Devil in this Holler" and "If Not for the Rain," illustrated the group's resilience, storytelling abilities, and keen musicianship.
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