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REO Speedwagon singer Terry Luttrell was injured in a car crash after falling asleep at the wheel. The accident happened just one day after his band played a farewell show at the State Farm Center in ...
Asleep at the Wheel frontman Ray Benson remembers back in the late 1960s when his band started to take shape. “Me and my pals I grew up with — we were searching around and realized that we were way ...
Asleep at the Wheel fiddler with his own band Updated May 7, 2014 4:56 p.m. Jason Roberts, who played 19 years with Asleep at the Wheel, performs Friday at Leon Springs Dance Hall.
Asleep at the Wheel’s Ray Benson on Keeping the Texas Band Alive, Alert and Swinging for 50 Years On April 16, Benson celebrates his 70th birthday (in conjunction with, as always, a fundraiser ...
Asleep at the Wheel are enlisting some big-name guest vocalists on 'Half a Hundred Years,' an album celebrating their 50th anniversary as a band.
Asleep at the Wheel in 2017, clockwise from bottom left: Josh Hoag, Connor Forsyth, Ray Benson, Katie Shore, David Sanger, and Dennis Ludiker.
Asleep at the Wheel has been a driving force behind the resurrection of Western swing for a little more than 50 years, and the iconic band is now bringing its timeless music to Alma's Skokos ...
AUSTIN, Texas — Grammy-winning Asleep at the Wheel's Ray Benson is gearing up to sell five decades' worth of memories next month. According to a report by KVUE's news partners at the Austin ...
MIDLAND When Ray Benson was asked if he ever imagined that his band Asleep At the Wheel would still be around after 50 years, he could only laugh. “No way,” Benson, the lead singer and founder ...
T en-time Grammy Award-winning band Asleep at the Wheel is bringing Western swing music to the islands this month. Ray Benson, front man of the band for over 50 years, and his latest collection of ...
Asleep at the Wheel got its start in 1970, and it has been a part of the American roots music landscape for over 50 years. The band, which started in West Virginia, became a cornerstone of the ...
Fifty-five years. That’s how long singer, songwriter, guitarist and bandleader Ray Benson has been fronting Asleep At The Wheel, which performs April 19 at Charleston Music Hall.