Folk Rock Band: The Steel Wheels & Moon Crush: Pink Moon Review

We recap a special day at Moon Crush: Pink Moon Festival and Welcome Virginia-based folk-rock band The Steel Wheels to the show. The Steel Wheels have spent almost twenty years writing, recording, and touring, all the while constantly honing their evolving brand of American roots music. Additionally they are the founders and hosts of the Red Wing Roots Music Festival, a beloved staple of the Shenandoah Valley. Through the years, The Steel Wheels have drawn on both traditional form and modern sounds to capture the beauty in all of life’s varied trials and triumphs. Their new album, Sideways, which was released February 9, 2024 via Big Ring Records, is a meditation on resilience and survival.  We are joined by Trent Wagler, the band’s lead singer and primary songwriter, who pens many of the songs in response to loss, and the uncertainty that comes with facing what we can’t control.