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Comin' Right at YA: How a Jewish Yankee Hippie Went Country, Or, the Often Outrageous History of Asleep at the Wheel

Comin' Right at YA: How a Jewish Yankee Hippie Went Country, Or, the Often Outrageous History of Asleep at the Wheel

Benson, Ray
Menconi, David

Paperback

Series: Brad and Michele Moore Roots Music

MusiciansCountry & Folk

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ISBN10: 1477326707
ISBN13: 9781477326701
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: Dec 6 2022
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.43 Depth: 8.43
Language: English

A who's who of American popular music fills this lively memoir, in which Ray Benson recalls how a Philadelphia Jewish hippie and his bandmates in Asleep at the Wheel turned on generations of rock and country fans to Bob Wills-style Western swing.

A six-foot-seven-inch Jewish hippie from Philadelphia starts a Western swing band in 1970, when country fans hate hippies and Western swing. It sounds like a joke but--more than forty years, twenty-five albums, and ten Grammy Awards later--Asleep at the Wheel is still drawing crowds around the world. The roster of musicians who've shared a stage with the Wheel is a who's who of American popular music--Van Morrison, Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, George Strait, Vince Gill, Lyle Lovett, and so many more. And the bandleader who's brought them all together is the hippie that claimed Bob Wills's boots: Ray Benson.

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