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by Dan Williams Ray Benson is asked all the time how his Philadelphia roots led him to Texas to become today’s best-selling practitioner of Western Swing in the world.  The nine-time Grammy winning leader of Asleep at the Wheel compared the perceived disconnect to Van Read More

by Dan Williams The TLA went dark and the massive upstage scaffold began to glow.  Silhouettes of ukuleles and other instruments hanging throughout came into focus.  Soon, bathed in shadows, five figures resembling druids walked to center stage while a heavy rhyt Read More

by Dan Williams They’re as comfortable as your favorite old jeans. Asleep at the Wheel is in their forty-fourth year and still bringing trademark Texas Swing to folks around the world. Philadelphia native and band founder Ray Benson started the band along with Lucky Oceans in Read More

by Dan Williams Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello, Weird Al, Haight-Ashbury, Bubblegum, Jell-O,  Black Ballerinas and Frank Zappa collided at Union Transfer on Tuesday night. After a psychedelic, swirling wall of sound opening performance by Jack Name (more later), Ariel Pink and Read More