Work has been a complete bear this week. Couple that with a new puppy in the house and you get nothing accomplished. So, I haven’t had a chance to write anything at all for the site and it sucks. However, work is slowing down and the puppy gets a new home tonight so life should be back to normal next week. This is a band that was gonna slip through the cracks. I had started writing about them a few times and scrapped it and I had given up on doing anything at all. Today I saw the mp3’s I had chosen and decided to put something together real quick.

The Steepwater band is a bluesy roots-rock outfit out of Chicago. Their current cd, Revelation Sunday, was released in August of 2006 and has gotten regular play in my car ever since.

The Chicago-bred trio’s organic, hard-driving synthesis of gutsy hard rock, gritty Delta blues, soulful backwoods boogie and down-home psychedelia has taken its hometown by storm. The frenzied power of the band’s live shows has won them a fiercely loyal fan base, and their last CD Dharmakaya (produced by Sean Slade & Paul Kolderie – Radiohead, Uncle Tupelo, Hole, Warren Zevon) received substantial airplay across the Midwest, including Chicago’s influential WXRT.

The Steepwater Band (guitarist / vocalist Jeff Massey, bassist Tod Bowers and drummer Joseph Winters) have played together since their teens in various rock and blues combos. The three musicians united to form The Steepwater Band in 1998, taking the name from a barge Massey spotted in Lake Michigan.

Steepwater Band - Dance Me a Number
Steepwater Band - Slow Train Drag
Steepwater Band - Mercy

Steepwater Band’s Official site, Steepwater Band on myspace, Buy Revelation Sunday