Asleep at the Wheel has been together for 45 years. They're the best-known and hardest-working western swing band around. Western swing is a genre of music that developed in Texas and Oklahoma in the 1930's combining country songs with jazz players and arrangements. It was primarily dance music and its king was Bob Wills.
Asleep at the Wheel once again pays tribute to Wills on their new album, Still the King: Celebrating the Music of Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys, which features The Avett Brothers, Old Crow Medicine Show, Pokey LaFarge and Kat Edmonson, among others. We'll talk with lead singer and founder of Asleep at the Wheel, Ray Benson, after he kicks off the show onstage at World Cafe Live in Philadelphia.
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