Mike Slaton - lead vocals, guitar & harmonica. Chuck Spry - drums and backing vocals. Chris Cardamone - Fender bass. Ted Crenshaw - lead guitar. "Wavis" - lead guitar.
Influences
Ancient country tones, feelings, heartbreaks. Rock and Roll.
Songs that contain soul, meaning, and truth, written by songwriters that absolutely had to do it.
Some of our immediate influences are Willie Nelson & Family. Van Morrison.Tift Merritt, Rolling Stones. Merle Haggard. R.E.M. The Band. Neil Young and Crazy Horse. Jay Farrar. Kris Kristofferson. Uncle Tupelo. Son Volt. Whiskeytown. Harland Howard. Rodney Crowell. Hank Williams and his sons. Gram Parsons. Patty Griffin. Waylon Jennings. Blue Mountain. The Jayhawks. Jeff Buckley. Billy Joe Shaver. Troy Seals. Otis Redding. Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band. Townes Van Zandt. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. U2. Jeff Tweedy. The Replacements. Skip James. Josh Rouse. Larry Brown....
Mike Slaton & The Wheels is a band that pays attention to writing and playing songs that are steeped in sincerity and bedded in soul. Going to sleep country and waking up rock n' roll. This is a songwriter driven, four piece rock band that is not fooled by musical fads or what their company thinks they should be doing. They pay attention to the music that feels and sounds best to them. This comes from growing up listening hard to rock 'n roll, country, soul, and other branches of American music.
The band is lead by singer/songwriter Mike Slaton. The calvary follows with Chuck Spry on drums and backing vox. Chris Cardamone on bass. and Ted Crenshaw on lead Guitar.
All members have been involved with numerous groups and projects in the past,
but they collectively believe this is THE band. With an authentic grasp on that rocking American sound, they contain something that has been missing in popular music for some time now. While staying subserviant to the song, their delivery is direct and their sound true.
'Big Bad Love' - Their debut EP will be available soon. Half a dozen songs saturated with humble, heartbroken, rock 'n roll.
Dylan Gilbert LIVE @ The Soapbox Lounge (255 N. Front St. Downtown Wilmington, NC) w/ Marionette Saturday November 14th Starts at 9pm / FREE ADMISSION More info: www.thesoapboxlive.com
it is up to you. whenever you are ready. i have ideas, i have gear. just bring some guitars and that pretty singin' voice and we will get it on (in a gay way, if you'd like)
Dylan Gilbert
Live @ The Soapbox
(255 N. Front St. Wilmington NC)
on the bottom floor
FRIDAY MAY 22ND 2009
at 9:00pm as part of
WE FEST XIII!
