"How good are they LIVE?" in the last 12 months on 100 (as of 6/15/26)
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Critics Consensus
Based on 11 concert reviews, the critics consensus is that The Steel Wheels is rated as a watchable live performer, with decent shows overall. The Steel Wheels concert reviews describe live shows and performances as stylish.
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How much does it cost to book The Steel Wheels? To hire for a live performance or concert, the booking fees for The Steel Wheels range from $2,500 - $7,500, with The Steel Wheels's current estimated booking fee to be around $2,500.
On tour
Kentucky Exposition Center, Louisville, United States (September 24)
The Steel Wheels is an American roots music group of folk musicians based in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. The band is rooted in musical styles that explore the territories between blues and bluegrass, old-time sing-alongs and foot-stompin' fiddle tunes.
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Critic Concert Reviews
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June 8, 2017
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Don't bother trying to pigeon-hole The Steel Wheels. First and foremost, the Virginia band probably would be associated with bluegrass, but not exactly. Some country, especially with some gorgeous multi-part harmonies, but definitely not exactly. Folk sounds certainly were present. And in this day and age, yo
The latter closed the main set a cappella save for Wagler’s tambourine stick and Kevin Garcia’s thunderous drums. The Wagler original presented as a traditional spiritual as the songwriter, acoustic guitarist and banjoist; bassist Jeremy Darrow; fiddler Eric Brubaker; and Jay Lapp (guitar/mandolin)
Much of the set was spent previewing material from the as-yet-unreleased Sideways—“It’s really exciting for us,” Wagler said of premiering the songs – which seems poised to burnish the Wheels’ eclectic reputation established by such numbers as the rambunctious “Wild as We Came Here” and “Scrape Me off the Ceiling”
There was no real specific reason for such a lofty event -- no anniversary of his birth or notorious death to wrap a big to-do around, and it could hardly be the result of a deprivation of tributes to, arguably, the inventor of country-rock.
