30-Minute Music Hour

The Blueheels

The pride of Neenah, Wisconsin, The Blueheels proudly defy description. Blueheels co-founder Rob Schiller, son of an airplane mechanic, grew up in Neenah listening to his father's Merle Haggard records. While his music with the Blueheels is more rock than country these days, you can still hear the voice of the low down working man in Schiller's lyrics. Haggard's gallows humor is in there, too. Schiller met his band co-founder Justin Bricco at a Neenah open mic; in 2004 they formed the Blueheels and have been rocking bars and house parties in and out of the Badger State ever since. "Hank Williams, Sr. joins the Who," is how one critic calls it.

Recorded June 17, 2008