Wesley was born in Ft. Worth, Texas, but grew up in a small river town in the hills of northern Kentucky. He began playing guitar and banjo at the age of 14 and started singing with a gospel band soon after. His chief musical influences were Doc Watson and Jimmy Page. Wesley was a member of the award-winning band “No Tools Loaned” since that group’s band’s formation in November of 2000. He supports LIBERTY ROAD by playing lead and rhythm guitar and supplying lead vocals. Wesley is a wonderful guitar player, bassist and vocalist, with over 20 years of experience singing and entertaining folks – from church meetings to opening for Tony Rice at The Kentucky Theater.

Terri is a self-described, aging hippie chick, a lover of all music. She played Ukulele (Hawaiian music) at 6; Viola (Classical) at 12, and Guitar (Folk and Flower Child, The Beatles) at 13. She picked up a bass over 20 years ago, and she fell in love all over again. Terri plays for the joy of it, performing in local/regional bands for almost 20 years, always keeping her day job. She is glad to be playing with such talented friends as these guys in LIBERTY ROAD.

LIBERTY ROAD’S youngest member is a compulsively-exploratory mandolinist, who grew up listening to many types and genres of music. Also adept on guitar and vocals, Noah has been a key member of many central-Kentucky groups, playing jazz and world-beat music. His fresh approach to bluegrass mandolin amazes all who hear him play, and his vocals -- whether solos or harmony parts sung with his father (Tom) and other members of the group -- add a thrilling sound to LIBERTY ROAD’s shows.

A versatile bluegrass banjoist and singer, Tom Adler grew up in Chicago and has played in many bluegrass and other string bands in Indiana and Kentucky since the 1970s. He is also a Ph.D. folklorist, trained at Indiana University’s Folklore Institute, with considerable academic knowledge of American folk music, including Appalachian string bands, bluegrass, blues, regional and ethnic musics, and more. Tom is also known widely as a bluegrass music historian: his book-length history of Bill Monroe’s music park in Indiana (Bean Blossom: The Brown County Jamboree and Bill Monroe’s Bluegrass Festivals) was published in 2011 in the University of Illinois’ prestigious “Music in American Life” series. He has taught classes in folklore and in bluegrass music at the University of Kentucky, and served for a time as the first Executive Director of the International Bluegrass Music Museum in Owensboro. As a musician and singer living in Lexington, Kentucky, he is now retired from the University, but still performs frequently with LIBERTY ROAD in the central Kentucky region.