Pittsburgh, Pa.
Forged In Steel
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Having opened for the Dave Matthews Band, My Morning Jacket, Blues Traveler and Dickey Betts, the Steel City’s 28 North finds itself logging hundreds of dates on the road, while touring behind its recently released self-titled debut. The quartet’s diverse live shows also draw from the band’s large canon of unreleased material. “We have around 200 original songs,” says 28 North singer/guitarist Mike Lindner. “Not all of them are arranged at this point, but the first rule is no two songs can sound alike.” During 28 North’s numerous opening stints, Lindner feels that the band has gained something from watching MMJ’s “calm” onstage or Dickey Betts’ “magical” guitar work – and expanded on its sound with an energetic fervor. But the band’s ability to craft its own variations on classic rock motifs with an impressive ability to segue from shimmering vocal harmonies to a dual guitar attack has inspired the quartet to seek much more – bigger stages and an even larger catalog. “It will be cool when we get to the point where everyone knows us,” says Lindner. “That’s what we want. We’re young – 24, 25 years old – so by the time we’re 50, maybe we’ll have a thousand songs.”

Having opened for the Dave Matthews Band, My Morning Jacket, Blues Traveler and Dickey Betts, the Steel City’s 28 North finds itself logging hundreds of dates on the road…