 Artist: Asleep At The Wheel: mp3 download Genre(s): Other Country Discography:  Live At Billy Bob's Texas Year: 2003 Tracks: 15  Asleep at the Wheel - Live and Kickin: Greatest Hits Year: 2002 Tracks: 10  Ride With Bob Year: 1999 Tracks: 17  Tribute To The Music Of Bob Wills and The Texas Playboys (Dance Version) Year: 1994 Tracks: 18  Western Standard Time Year: 1990 Tracks: 10  Keepin' Me Up Nights Year: 1990 Tracks: 12 Since the early '70s, Asleep at the Wheel has been the most important power in guardianship the sound of Western swing live. In restorative the harum-scarum, eclecticist sensibility of Western swing godfather Bob Wills, the Wheel earned enthusiastic critical praise throughout their drawn-out career; they non only preserved classical sounds that had all just disappeared from area music, merely were besides able to update the music, holding it a living, ventilation prowess form. Typically featuring 8-11 musicians, the group has gone through myriad staff office office changes (at final count, over 80 members had passed through and through their ranks), only 6'7" frontman Ray Benson has held it together for over three decades, keeping Asleep at the Wheel a executable transcription and touring vexation and maintaining their devotion to classic-style Western swing.Singer/guitarist Benson was natural Ray Benson Seifert and grew up listening to a variety of music in Philadelphia, especially jazz. He formed Asleep at the Wheel in Paw Paw, WV, in 1970, along with longtime admirer Lucky Oceans (born Reuben Gosfield; sword guitar) and Leroy Preston (rhythm method acting guitar). They presently added a distaff vocaliser in Chris O'Connell, world Health Organization was unused verboten of high school. Initially, the group played straight-ahead rural arena in local venues, simply quickly switched to Western swing when they discovered the euphony through Merle Haggard (specifically his Bob Wills protection record album) and eclecticist country-rockers Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen. In fact, Commander Cody helped the group preindication with his own handler, Joe Kerr, world Health Organization positive them to strike to San Francisco in late 1971. They subsequently added keyboardist Floyd Domino, and secured a residency at Berkeley's Longbranch Saloon. Praise from Van Morrison in a Rolling Stone clause helped them land a record deal with United Artists, which released their debut record book album, Comin' Right at Ya, in 1973.In 1974, Asleep at the Wheel relocated to the roots music harbour of Austin, TX, and too switched labels to Epic. Their self-titled label debut appeared that same year, and their wrap up of Louis Jordan's "Choo Choo Ch'Boogie" became their number one base individual to impinge on the reticuloendothelial system publica charts. Afterwards, they added fiddler Lisa Silver and acclaim Bobby Womack, and hopped labels over again to Capitol. 1975's Texas Gold was their discovery record album, climbing into the rES publica Top Ten and producing their only Top Ten hit on the nation singles charts, "The Letter That Johnny Walker Read." That year they performed on the starting time non-pilot sequence of Austin City Limits, and although they continued to receive personnel department shifts, they off out a chain of excellent albums all over the stay on of the decennary: Wheelin' and Dealin' (1976), The Wheel (1977), and Collision Course (1978), the latter of which featured their first base Grammy victor in the instrumental cover of Count Basie's "One O'Clock Jump."Asleep at the Wheel stirred to MCA for 1980's Framed, exactly all was not well: innovation member Lucky Oceans left the mathematical mathematical group that class, and Chris O'Connell took a leave of absence to start out a kinsfolk non long after. Plus, the group was heavy in debt, forcing them to knead on commercials and movement picture soundtracks. The fiscal problems conspired to sustain them turned record for the adjacent few days, and when they returned on Dot/MCA with a self-titled album in 1985, they were virtually unheeded. Following the small-label spill Grazing res publica Prime later that year, Benson did some moonlighting as a producer, and soon managed to take in a arcsecond shot with Epic. By forthwith, O'Connell had returned, and the new batten order featured violinist Larry Franklin, steel guitar player John Ely, pianist/accordionist Tim Alexander, saxist Mike Francis, bassist Jon Mitchell, and drummer David Sanger. This unit recorded the major comeback attempt, Asleep at the Wheel 10, in 1987, which brought them back to the Top 20 of the country record album and singles charts (the latter via "Firm of Blue Lights") for the number one base time in over a ten-spot. Additionally, the album's "Bowed stringed pawn of Pars" north Korean won them their second Grammy for Best Country Instrumental, and featured contributions from fiddle caption and quondam Texas Playboy Johnny Gimble. The 1988 follow-up, Western Standard Time, continued their impulse, fetching some other Best Country Instrumental Grammy for "Sugarfoot Rag."In 1990, Asleep at the Wheel affected to Arista and recorded Keepin' Me Up Nights, which flopped in comparison to its two predecessors. Major force dollar volume ensued, with O'Connell going away a second gear time, and Benson regrouped with Francis, Sanger, fiddler Ricky Turpin, bassist David Miller, and leaf blade guitarist/dobroist Cyndi Cashdollar. They issued 2 albums on Liberty/Capitol, the acclaimed, guest-laden A Tribute to the Music of Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys (1993; featuring the Grammy-winning instrumental "Bolshie Wing") and The Wheel Keeps on Rollin' (1995). Their adjacent major studio apartment project, Ride With Bob, was released by DreamWorks in 1999 and featured violinist Jason Roberts (a pres Young relative of Johnny Gimble) and pianist/second fiddler Chris Booher. It was the group's second explicit tribute to Bob Wills, and it attracted regular more positive attention than the number one, taking multiple Grammys and drawing off non-country collaborators like the Manhattan Transfer and Squirrel Nut Zippers. |
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