Episode 19-50: Asleep at the Wheel

About This Episode

Ray Benson founded western swing band Asleep at the Wheel in Paw
Paw, West Virginia 48 years ago. “We were too country for the
rock folks and we were too long-haired for the country folks. But
everybody got over it once the music started playing."


Today the band holds 10 Grammy awards, 20 studio albums and 20
singles on the Billboard charts. They’ve collaborated with
legends such as Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard and George Strait
and newcomers like the Avett Brothers, Amos Lee, Old Crow
Medicine Show and many other fine talents.


Asleep at the Wheel is bringing a fresh look, sound and New Album
in 2018. With recent additions Katie Shore (fiddle, vocals),
Dennis Ludiker (fiddle, mandolin) Connor Forsyth (keyboard,
vocals) and Josh Hoag (Bass) Asleep at the Wheel’s newest members
have given a newfound energy and their own unique style within
the band. Asleep at the Wheel veterans David Sanger (Drums) Eddie
Rivers (Steel Guitar) and Jay Reynolds (Saxophone and Clarinet)
round out the now 8 piece band.


Between those Texas Twin Fiddles and Boogie Piano, you can bet
you’ll be swingin’ all night long when the Wheel rolls into town!
About Michael Perry

Michael Perry is a New York Times bestselling author, humorist
and radio show host from New Auburn, Wisconsin.


Perry's bestselling memoirs include Population 485, Truck: A Love
Story, Coop, and Visiting Tom, and his latest, Montaigne in Barn
Boots: An Amateur Ambles Through Philosophy. His first book for
young readers, The Scavengers, was published in 2014 and first
novel for adult readers, The Jesus Cow, was published in May of
2015.


Raised on a small Midwestern dairy farm, Perry put himself
through nursing school while working on a ranch in Wyoming, then
wandered into writing. He lives with his wife and two daughters
in rural Wisconsin, where he serves on the local volunteer fire
and rescue service and is an intermittent pig farmer. He hosts
the nationally-syndicated "Tent Show Radio," performs widely as a
humorist, and tours with his band the Long Beds (currently
recording their third album for Amble Down Records). He has
recorded three live humor albums including Never Stand Behind A
Sneezing Cow and The Clodhopper Monologues.


Learn more about Michael and where to get his publications at
www.sneezingcow.com.


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