About Driving Wheel
The members of Driving Wheel might not be on a mission from God. But that doesn't keep them from existing as blues brothers, driven by a family vibe and a passion to perform for any crowd that will have them.
And many have delighted to do so — the band has played at Roots N Blues N BBQ festival, shared a recent bill with Tab Benoit and held hands with fellow local standouts such as The Mojo Roots. The duo that makes up Driving Wheel's core — guitarist Ryan Tomlinson and bassist Jeremy Hunsaker — has fine-tuned a sound that's indebted to torchbearers in the blues, Southern rock and alternative camps. Yet, to hear Hunsaker tell it, the pair's biggest musical influences are one another.
The two met when Tomlinson was still in high school and, with a shared love of artists such as The Black Crowes and Lynyrd Skynyrd, decided to start a "bluesy, boozy rock 'n' roll band," Hunsaker said. Spending time together, they introduced each other to artists and ways of playing they might not have experienced alone. Hunsaker brought a steady diet of '60s and '70s rock to the equation while Tomlinson "drug me kicking and screaming into the modern age," he said
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