Like some cinematic Western, the Steel Woods’ “Straw in the Wind” spins a story of sin, struggle and strange disappearances in small-town America. The murder ballad doubles as the title track to the ...

The Steel Woods, "Straw in the Wind" (Woods Music/Thirty Tigers) Fame Studios producer Rick Hall maintains that southern rock was born the day Duane Allman goaded Wilson Pickett into covering the ...

The Steel Woods will stay true to themselves, regardless of what comes their way. A Nashville band at heart, they broke out of the country music capital of the world with a brand of blues-infused ...

Nashville’s The Steel Woods has all of the talent necessary to carry the Southern rock torch. But don’t tell the band’s co-founder and co-songwriter that. “Thank you, but I don’t ever want to carry ...

Two sons of the South bond over a love of Southern rock, outlaw country, bluegrass, R&B and … fishing. The result is the Steel Woods, fronted by Alabama-born Wes Bayliss and Rowdy Cope of Asheville, ...

Wes Bayliss and Jason “Rowdy” Cope, co-founders of the Steel Woods, are a pair of hirsute, Southern-bred musicians who met while performing on the same bill at a Nashville nightclub. This led to ...

Where: Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox, 1001 W. Sprague Ave. Cost: $25 and $30 Info: (509) 624-1200, www.foxtheaterspokane.org When a fan recently told the Steel Woods guitarist Wes Bayliss that he ...

EVANSVILLE -- Up-and-coming Southern rock and roots band The Steel Woods is opening for Dwight Yoakam at The Victory Theater Wednesday. The group is fronted by co-creators Wes Bayliss and Jason "Rowdy ...

Following the untimely death of the band’s co-founder, songwriter, and guitarist Jason “Rowdy” Cope on Jan. 16 at the age of 42, The Steel Woods‘ surviving members, singer Wes Bayliss, bassist Johnny ...