Sing-a-Song from Nashville: Michael James Wheeler

Mike Wheeler is a singer-songwriter originally from Vermont. With stints in Montreal, New Zealand, Augusta, Georgia, Key West, Colorado, Wisconsin and Kentucky - where he has been called "undoubtedly one of WKY's best singer-songwriters right now" (News4U, 2017) - Wheeler now makes his home in Nashville.

Mike's debut LP, Roll Another Dime, produced by Grammy Award-winning studio engineer Rob Eaton, was released in March 2022 by Pacific Records. The record features performances by Adam Chaffins, Todd Smallie, Rob Eaton Jr. and Sierra Ferrell. Its successor, produced by Steve Berlin (Los Lobos), will be released in 2025.

2017 marked Wheeler's solo debut with "Sunbeams All Twisted" - a mostly stripped down acoustic collection of Michael's lyrically-heavy Americana numbers. The 7-song EP is accompanied by award-winning New Zealand fiddler George Jackson and Vermont pedal steel heavyweight Brett Lanier (The Barr Brothers). It's a personal, folky offering, both gritty and precise, culled from a deeper catalog that runs the gamut from honky tonk to haunted blues, with remnants of the bluegrass he cut his teeth touring with string orchestras.

This release was followed in 2020 by a collaborative digital EP, 'The Countin' on you Sessions' with Rachel Baiman.

After a stint with Chris Henry & The Hardcore Grass in 2015, "Wheeler - the kind of road dog troubadour of yore" (Maximum Volume, 2020) spent the better part of three years touring non-stop, mostly solo, before settling back into Nashville life in 2018. He recently opened for James Taylor & Jackson Browne in San Diego and performed in concert with contemporary Americana heavyweights Nikki Lane, Tyler Childers and Kelsey Waldon.

In recent years Mike has performed at the Newport Folk Festival, CaveJam and Sea Hear Now as a member of BERTHA: Grateful Drag as well as Folk Alliance International, ROMP, Maverick Festival (UK), Dark Songs, Aiken Bluegrass Festival and The on Frendly Gathering, IBMA: World of Bluegrass, Steelbridge Songfest and countless clubs, pubs, living rooms and pubs level his grassroots DIY outreach.He has toured domestically and internationally with Crying Wolf, Gold Town, The Red Valley Flyers, Dyer Hill and The Hardcore Grass and collaborated with members of Pokey LaFarge, Hackensaw Boys, Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band, The War & Treaty and many others along the way.

Mike's co-writers include Melody Walker, Tammy King (The Steel Drivers), Noel McKay, Brennan Leigh, Rachel Baiman, Daniel Donato, Tony Martinez, Austin Stambaugh, Noah Fowler, George Jackson, Geri X, Ellie Buckland (Lula). Wiles), Lydia Luce and James Hall (Pleasure Club)

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