Ferus Presents: The SteelDrivers
Thu, Nov 03
|Trussville
VIP INCLUDES BALCONY VIEWS, PRIVATE BAR, PRIVATE RESTROOMS, NACHO BAR, AND A FERUS BEER
Time & Location
Nov 03, 2022, 7:00 PM
Trussville, Trussville, AL, USA
About the Event
ABOUT STEELDRIVERS
Bad For You, the fifth album from Nashville’s hard-edged bluegrass band The Steeldrivers, arrives after a period of triumph and adaptation. The band’s 2015 release, The Muscle Shoals Recordings, won the Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album. In bluegrass and acoustic music circles, respect for this Nashville quintet is so strong that the win seemed somehow inevitable, like a box being checked off. For the band though, as well as its passionate audience of Steelheads, it was a much bigger deal. The Grammy validated the vision and collective striving of a string band with a rock and soul heart. Industry recognition and better bookings followed. Then just when the follow-up album was coming together, vocalist and guitar player Gary Nichols decided he needed to go his own way.
It was a setback, to be sure. Negotiating the transition from the magisterial soul country voice of band co-founder Chris…