The Steel Woods’ sophomore Thirty Tigers album, Old News, represents a creative leap for the southern  roots  rock  songwriting  team  of  Alabama  native Wes  Bayliss  and  his  North  Carolina partner Jason “Rowdy” Cope, who completed their first recordings barely months after they first met. Recorded in Asheville, NC at Echo Mountain Studios, the site of an old church during a six-day break in a hectic touring schedule, the new double-vinyl disc (the follow-up to 2017’s critically acclaimed Straw in the Wind) features more original songs and, for the first time, the whole band participated –including the rhythm section of bassist Johnny Stanton and drummer Jay Tooke –playing in a single room, cutting the tracks virtually live.