The Steel Wheels and The Lone Bellow

The Steel Wheels have spent 20 years crafting their own distinct style of American roots music. After two decades of making music together in living rooms, listening rooms, clubs, theaters, and festival stages, The Steel Wheels are still growing, still pushing, still at it, and they’re marking the occasion with the release of their 9th studio album, The Steel Wheels. The album captures the multifaceted band in full-flight, pivoting effortlessly between the folk rock band they’ve grown into over 20 years, and the harmony-centric acoustic ensemble that they’ve been since the beginning. The band puts their impressive range on display throughout The Steel Wheels; energy, insight, and humor, balanced with tender, highly personal moments of masterful restraint and expression as the album unfolds. As ever, the band challenges themselves to find new ways through the music, using space and, at moments, reinventing their approach to the string band format. After 20 years hard at work The Steel Wheels is an album of creative maturity with a restless sense of adventure. 

The Lone Bellow, based in Nashville, Tennessee, embarks on a bold new chapter while honoring the deep bonds that have defined their journey. With their upcoming sixth studio album, What A Time To Be Alive, they reaffirm their commitment not just to making music, but to building community—on stage, in song, and around the table. The album is both a celebration and a reckoning: of friendship, loss, love, and resilience. From the gritty, Stones-tinged opener “After The Rain” to the soul-stirring closer What A Time To Be Alive, the record captures the joy and vulnerability that have long defined The Lone Bellow’s sound—lush harmonies, heartfelt lyrics, and genre-blurring arrangements steeped in folk, rock, and gospel.

To learn more about both artists and the Winter Roots Concert, visit https://www.redwingroots.com/winterroots

Wilson Hall Parking: Park for free in the Warsaw Avenue Parking Deck directly behind the Forbes Center one and a half hours prior to the performance. Handicapped parking is on each floor next to the elevators. Exit the parking lot on the ground floor and follow signs to campus. Walk through the tunnel under South Main Street. Wilson Hall is the building at the top of the Quad with the clock tower. Alternatively, a free shuttle will run from the Warsaw Parking Deck to Wilson Hall starting one hour prior to the performance and returning immediately following.

A limited number of additional handicapped parking spaces are available in Lot A behind Wilson Hall, accessible via Bluestone Drive. If the gate is down, press the call button and identify yourself as a Wilson Hall guest intent on parking in Lot A. All laws pertaining to proper use of disabled parking placards or license plates apply.