Asleep at the Wheel: Live at Billy Bob's
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DVD Details
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: March 15, 2005
- Originally Released: 2003
- Label: Smith Music Group
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| Music Performer: | Asleep at the Wheel |
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Product Description:
Since forming in 1969, Asleep at the Wheel has won nine Grammy Awards and established itself as a favorite act among western swing bands. Though they got their start in Paw Paw, West Virginia, Asleep at the Wheel quickly found its home in Austin, Texas, where audiences welcomed their signature sound of country, jazz, rock, and blues. The band originally consisted of Ray Benson, Lucky Oceans, and Leroy Preston, with Benson going on to build a successful solo career with 2003's BEYOND TIME. This concert, which took place on April 18th, 2003, at Texan venue Billy Bob's, includes a new lineup of David Miller, Jason Roberts, Haydn Vitera, David Sanger, John Micheal Whitby, Jim Murphy, and the only remainder from the original lineup, Ray Benson. Performing 17 songs, the group displays the onstage appeal that gained them praise from such music legends as Willie Nelson, Van Morrison, Bob Dylan, and George Strait throughout the 1970s.
Description by Image Entertainment:
Ray Benson (Ray Benson Siefert, born March 16, 1951), Lucky Oceans and Leroy Preston were really just three alterna-culture refugees when they landed in Paw Paw, W. Va., in the summer of 1969. Their plan was to form a real live Western swing band influenced by the likes of fellow-gonzo-swinger Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen. After drifting through Washington, D.C., and San Francisco, the band (which got its record deal when Van Morrison raved about them in Rolling Stone) landed in heart of Bob Wills country: Austin, Texas, in the early '70s. With its fondness for jazz, blues, rock and country, the band was an instant hit with the same folks who embraced Willie Nelson and the rest of the Outlaws. The band only scored one Top 10 country hit -- 1975's "The Letter That Johnny Walker Read" -- but has collected eight Grammys since then. In addition to two-all star Bob Wills tributes in the '90s, the ensemble offered a concept album Asleep at the Wheel Remembers the Alamo in 2003. Also that year, Benson (the only remaining founding member) released his first solo album, Beyond Time, which earned two Grammy nominations.