Steve Amaral

Lead Guitar @The Nickel Slots

Sacramento, CA, US

The Nickel Slots began performing together in November 2008, and the following spring a song from their debut album spent a month in rotation on KWOD 106.5 FM’s Sounds of Sacramento series. In 2010, 2011, and 2015 The Nickel Slots won Sammie Awards for Outstanding Americana/Alt-Country, they also won the Sammie for Live Performer in 2015. Their second album Five Miles Gone prompted SubMerge Magazine to say that it “…will make a serious bid to be the soundtrack of your summer.” The band has toured multiple times in Europe, winning over audiences in venues both large and small, and in March 2015 shared the stage with Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band at their concert at Sleep Train Arena. Their debut music video for “The Devil’s Chain Gang” won Best US Music Video at the 2015 American Online Film Awards, two awards at the 2013 Sacramento Film and Music Festival, and in early 2015 began garnering airplay on several music video TV networks, shows, and websites. In 2016 they were inducted into the Sammie Hall of Fame. 2017 has seen the release of their new music video for \"Old Guitar\" as well as three tribute songs for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, available exclusively on iTunes. For the 2017 Holiday Season, they released a music video for their original Christmas song \"A Shot and a Beer for Christmas.\" In 2018 The Nickel Slots headlined the Friday night of the the three day Green Escape Festival in France. 2019 saw the release of their fourth full length album entitled,\"Pack up All Regrets.\" Currently the band is negotiating a 2020 tour to Europe and working on new material for their fifth studio album.