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Wheels & Steel is the tough fourth album from Mallee-born musician Paul Costa. The album is hard hitting, raw and honest. Full of tough, electric guitar driven, commercial country songs set in the landscape of rural Australia.
Eleven of the tracks were co-written by Paul, with collaborators Rod McCormack, Matt Scullion, Tamara Stewart and Drew McAlister; one is a gift from Drew McAlister and legendary songwriter Allan Caswell, and the remaining track is a barnstorming cover of the Joe Camilleri classic Chained To The Wheel. 
The first single off the album Tractors and Bikes, which Paul wrote with Tamara Stewart and Drew McAlister, is an affectionate nod to Paul’s childhood on a Victorian farm. “On the farm there were two main ways to get to work on the property every day – you drove a tractor, or you rode a motorbike,” he says. “I remember riding the bike across the levy bank to other places – some I was allowed to ride to, and some I wasn’t. And I remember having tractor races with my brothers, all the time hoping Dad wouldn’t catch us. They are very fond memories.” 
The moods on Wheels & Steel range from the gentle sadness of Shake These Chains (featuring Nashville guitarist Brent Mason) to the hard-rocking fun of woman-tames-man love song Bad Boy. The dominant theme, however, is hope – found in songs such as the uplifting Shine, (dedicated to Mission Australia), the empowering McAlister-Caswell tale Buying Back The Farm, and Meant To Be, a tribute to the happiness brought into Paul’s life by his wife Suzie and their first child, Dylan.  

Track Listing:
01. Tractors & Bikes 02:52
02. Right Back At Ya 02:58
03. Shine 04:04
04. Big End Of Town 03:11
05. Sad Old Country Song 03:57
06. Ribbon Gang Lane 03:49
07. Shake These Chains 01:56
08. Buying Back The Farm 04:01
09. Comin’ Down 03:27
10. With This Ring 03:16
11. Bad Boy 03:05
12. Meant To Be 03:14
13. Chained To The Wheel 04:11 

Extra Informatie:
Aantal Discs: 1xCD
Genre: Country
Format: MP3 @ 320kbit
Year of Release: 2012
Speelduur: 44 minuten
Cover: Frontje is in de RARs verwerkt