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The Public Broadcasting System (PBS)Television Network series, Austin City Limits, is showing a one hour special celebrating fifty years of the Western Swing music group, Asleep At The Wheel. The viewing link is good until November 29, 2020. +++ Link To View Video +++
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Thanks for posting Jim. I'll definitely check it out later. I love those guys.
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Thanks ! I like how they have the black curtains on the side of the 4.3 video to fill out to 16.9, my foot is keeping time while I'm typing with the video playing in the other tab.
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Thanx Jim. I really enjoyed this.
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That was on last weekend. Outstanding. That is EXACTLY what I'd like to do. A country swing band. 2 horns, 2 fiddles, a pedal steel.... Ray Benson is awesome and I have had the pleasure of meeting him and he is funny as you can imagine.
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I haven't heard this band mentioned in some time, I kind of forgot about them to be honest - got it bookmarked, looking forward to it - thanks for sharing!
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Asleep At The Wheel has been on Austin City Limits (ACL) many times so that gave the production crew a lot of material to work with.
One neat trick is the editors strung together multiple performances of the same song spread over several decades. It's amazing how a song tempo rarely changes, the key signature is normally the same, Ray Benson's guitar sound is the same no matter what make or model guitar he is playing and Ray Benson sounds the same now as he did in 1976.
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I am going to test my aging memory and see if I remember. In 1997 I drove up to Detroit for a country music festival with my girlfriend de jour and Asleep At The Wheel was the first act on the card. Following were Lee Ann Womack, John Michael Montgomery, Faith Hill, Tim McGraw and then George Strait. I had never seen Asleep At The Wheel before, but they opened with 6 Days On The Road and I was hooked. They were out in the lobby at a merch table signing autographs and that was when I got to meet Ray Benson. He was an extremely personable type with a wicked sense of humor. I mentioned that up until then I didn't listen to much country and had never heard of them before, and he smiled and said "I guess we're even then because I never heard of you either." Then asked my name and signed the autograph to me personally. Shook my hand and off I went. I started looking for them after that and saw them a few more times as openers. And I said then as I say now, THAT is what I'd like to put together. 2 fiddles, 2 horns (one of which would be me), 2 keyboard players (one of which would be me) and a pedal steel player. I'd want to sound like a mashup of Bill Wills, AATW, Commander Cody and The Flying Burrito Brothers. Southern/country boogie/swing with a horn section. Alas, in 2020, with bands being what they are, nobody wants to be bigger than 3 pieces because there's no money and nobody wants to rehearse.
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Every time I watch anything with The Wheel I wonder what kind of special hardware it takes to set up that stage with Benson being 11 feet 19 inches tall.... The only time it looks in scale is when Vince Gill is standing next to him.
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Yeah I remember them from their playing many years ago at a venue in San Bernardino Ca. Called the branding iron. My brother in law played fiddle with them a couple times at country shows where there were many different folks playing.
I always loved that sound
Eddie another really cool musician I met who is just down to earth and super personable is John McEuen formerly with the dirt band. He and his son played a small show at a very quaint little coffee shop in Pasadena Ca and my wife and myself went with another couple. It was a great little show and John was very friendly we spent considerable time with him prior and after the show just visiting.
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One neat trick is the editors strung together multiple performances of the same song spread over several decades. It's amazing how a song tempo rarely changes. Particularly evident on Choo Choo Ch'Boogie. So many people think Louis Jordan wrote that song. Oh nay nay. A team of 3 guys who had some lesser level of success as writers wrote it, one of them being the guy who wrote Mockingbird Hill. 12 bar blues at its finest! As I watched that (again - for maybe the 10th time) it made me really sad to think about how this younger generation of alleged musicians doesn't really care about music anymore. I read my local Craigslist ads for musicians (pure for entertainment) and it is ridiculous what they say. There was an ad that ran for about a week looking for musicians to assemble a tribute to Dream Theater. Let that sing in. A drummer who can play like Mike Mangini, a guitar player that can play like John Petrucci, and a keyboard player who can play like Jordan Rudess. Are people at that level cruising Craigslist looking for a startup project band or sifting through offers they have? These kids all want to find 3 playing pieces and a singer, learn those 45 cliche songs, get it to where they start and stop at the same time, and rush to the stage to make 50 bucks a night, with NO care whatsoever if music is any kind of good and any kind of different from the other 100 bands n the area competing for those 50 a night jobs. Part of it is the state of the business, but part of it is the participation trophy mentality of this pampered generation. The Wheel retrospective video makes me sad because it makes me remember how often I started nosing around the community trying to find people to do that very band, which is largely a tribute to Bob Wills. Try to find find 8 players and convince them to care enough that they will spend 4 months learning, practicing alone, then rehearsing before the band is good enough to even record a rehearsal to shop it. I would want to line it up with drums, bass, main guitar, main piano, main sax, me playing second chair on all of those, 2 fiddle players and a pedal steel player, and at least 6 people able to sing. That's 9 pieces. In this music world, where do you take a band that size to earn enough money to make the carrot at the end of the stick look good enough to keep the mules interested? Makes me sad. EDIT to add: Their most recent album, New Routes (a play on New Roots) is glorious. Still a huge now to his inspiration, Bill Wills, but Katie Shore has a bigger front role and that's a great idea. She is outstanding.
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Man, Jim. You HAD to make this post!! I have been on a Wheel kick since you posted and I can't get enough of them! You have me ready to go to the Strawberry Festival in California in 2021 to see them headline there! Despite my disdain for California and their blatant unconstitutional denial to accept that there is a 2nd Amendment. I swore I would never set foot or wheel into California with their draconian enforcement of illegal firearm laws they just created on a whim. Damn this Covid epidemic and the way it has caused the music world to be on hold indefinitely. Acts can't even book NEXT year yet!
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Eddie and other Western Swing lovers, check out the +++ Western Swing Authority +++. They perform both original and classic western swing music.
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