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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 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