- South Willow Music
Randy Steele is an award winning banjo pickin’ singer/songwriter from Chattanooga, Tennessee. A career firefighter who picked up the banjo to decompress and pass the time at the fire station, Randy’s creative music ranges from character based narratives to deeply personal & revelatory. Emotionally powerful, Steele can wake you up with a hard-drivin’ song, draw you in with deep lyrics, & have you laughing (or crying) with a compelling confession.
Randy’s high-energy bluegrass band, High Cold Wind, brings out the best in his charisma & superb storytelling.
They are thrilled to independently release a 5-song self-titled EP August 25. It includes five tracks:
“Nashville Drinking Song” (a fun fast paced tune about leaving the big city and moving back to the country); “There’s a Part of Me” (A good old heartache song about growth); “It Happened” (a quick tempo and fun bluegrass song about life in the country, maybe robbing some banks, and lying to the police!); “A Golden Smile” (based on Randy’s memory of his own self doubt and worry when first dating his wife; they are now going on 22 years), and “Eight Thirty Eighteen” (a song born out of frustration and channeled into a super-fast, major key, knee slappin’ bluegrass number)
Previous solo releases from Randy include Songs from the Suck [2016-recorded at the legendary FAME studios in Muscle Shoals Alabama] Moccasin Bender EP [2018]. He also has released music as the frontman with Slim Pickins Bluegrass Band.
“Randy Steele cuts a new terrace in the old mountain called the high and lonesome sound. Not only that, lyrically, he doesn’t follow the bluegrass norms be it thematically, topically or in his phrasing.”
— Nicholas Edward Williams of American Songcatcher. —