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Guitarist Tony Kamel and mandolin Matt Slusher met in 2010, while they were playing with different mutual friends. Wood & Wire began to form in 2011 when bass player Dom Fisher joined Slusher and Kamel's jam sessions. They started as a trio. And later added Trevor Smith on banjo, they began their their career as a quartet in Austin, Texas. They toured in early 2013 with the band, Yonder Mountain String Band. They released their self-titled album on February 5th, 2013. The album is compiled of songs that the members wrote individually, then rearranged them as a band and songs they wrote (with the band in mind) while they were still in their developing stages. They recorded the album in Nashville, alongside producer and sound engineer Erick Jaskowiak, after being recommended by friend, Carl Miner, guitar player for Greencards. Kamel said of Erick, "he did the perfect amount of production advice and he wasn't try to change what we were doing. We all hit it off really well."

At the time of recording their second album, The Coast, the members in the band were Kamel, Fisher, and Smith. The album was released on February 3rd, 2015. On this album they had special guests, Jason Carter and Andy Leftwich, playing fiddle. They collaborated with Erick Jaskowiak in Nashville again. All of the tracks on the album was written within the band.

In 2014, they added Billy Bright on mandolin to their group, which made them a quartet again. Billy has known Smith since 2007 when they were in different bands touring together, Kamel since 2009 because he was giving him mandolin lessons, and Fisher because he was played Bass on album Billy was producing.

On April 8th, 2016, they released their first live album, Live at the Historic Scoot Inn.

They recorded their 3rd studio album, North of Despair, at The Zone in Dripping Springs, Texas. They cut the tracks to mostly live tape, with little editing. This is their first album with Billy Bright added to the lineup. This is also their first album to released by the local Austin record label, Blue Corn Music. They released the music video for Just Don't Make 'Em on March 21st, 2018, the video was shot at Austin's graffiti park and around town. The song is about Kamel's grandfather and their piece of family property in Llano. The band was inspired after seeing Willie Nelson perform at his ranch in Luck, Texas, they created Kingpin as a traveling tune. They made a music video for the song from video footage from a show at one of their favorite Austin music venues, Mohawk. North of Despair was released on April 13th, 2018. North of Despair earned them their first Grammy Award Nomination in 2019 for the 61st grammy awards for Best Bluegrass Album. The same day of their nomination, they were also awarded a $20,000 at the Black Fret Ball.

The production process of their 4th album was being wrapped up at the end of February, they were “pretty much done with it.” The album was recorded at The Zone in Dripping Springs, Texas. They decided to wait to put the album due to the pandemic and decided to release it on August 28th, 2020. Released through Blue Corn Music. The lead single is called Pigs and was released on July 9th, 2020. The track is “social commentary for sure — mostly around money. Money, divisive profit-driven news cycles, profits over people, constant consumption and waste — you know all of those uplifting modern hypocrisies.” They had to scrap plans to make videos and they reached out to their friend, Danny Barnes, who draws comics to draw some pictures. And Kamel started to make a video with lyrics around the pictures and added basic animation to it.