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For over fifty years, Asleep at the Wheel’s Ray Benson has been traversing the globe as an ambassador of Western swing music and introducing its irresistible sound to generation after generation — in ...

In other words, you had to be from Alabama to sing country music. Or you had to be from ... Benson formed Asleep at the Wheel and, after months of rehearsals in Paw Paw, the group began playing ...

Hollywood" star Apple Watts has shared detailed insights about the March 2022 car accident that dramatically altered her life ...

Country music is not—and never was—one style ... brought to America and Americanized. – Ray Benson Asleep at the Wheel, Briarcliff, Texas, 1979.