SteelDrivers Profiled in Wall Street Journal

2/27/2008 Stephen L. Betts “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.” So writes Wall Street Journal rock and pop music critic Jim Fussili in a profile of the up-and-coming five-piece band, titled “Bluegrass with a Difference.” The group, whose self-titled debut is out now on Rounder Records, consists of Richard Bailey on banjo, fiddler Tammy Rogers, bassist Mike Fleming, mandolin player Mike Henderson, and lead singer Chris Stapleton. Calling The SteelDrivers “varied, bright and as real as if the band were playing in your living room,” Fussili asserts that “the album should please fans of traditional bluegrass, country, folk and the acoustic ventures of Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead.” To read the entire article, visit the Wall Street Journal website. (Side note to WSJ editors: Reba may be best known by one name, but her last name is spelled “McEntire” – Ed.)