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The Steel Woods
12+ albums
countrySouthern Rockcountry rockrockdesert rock
about
The Steel Woods were a country rock music group from Nashville, Tennessee. Their debut album, Straw in the Wind, was released in 2017. The band has cited influences such as Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Led Zeppelin, and have toured in support of artists such as Lynyrd Skynyrd, Dwight Yoakam, Jamey Johnson, Cody Jinks, Miranda Lambert, and Blackberry Smoke. The Steel Woods were cofounded by Wes Bayliss and Jason "Rowdy" Cope. Cope was the creative lead of the band as well as its lead guitarist, songwriter and co-producer, while Bayliss is a multi-instrumentalist, lead singer and co-producer. Bayliss grew up in Woodland, Alabama, playing music in his family's gospel band and learned to play harmonica, mandolin, and guitar. In 2007, he moved to Mobile, Alabama, where he experimented further on different instruments. Cope began to learn guitar at the age of 11 in his hometown of Asheville, North Carolina. He later worked as a Los Angeles-based musician before moving to Nashville in 2007 and joined Jamey Johnson's band. In his nine years with Johnson, Cope co-wrote "Can't Cash My Checks" and helped Johnson make the Grammy-nominated "That Lonesome Song" (2008) and "The Guitar Song" (2010). In the early days of The Steel Woods, Bayliss and Cope spent a lot of time fishing and writing what would eventually evolve into the bands first studio album, Straw in the Wind (2017) released on Thirty Tigers/Woods Music. The album featured a guest vocal appearance by Lindi Ortega, and
