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';Full of humor and humility... Since Benson started Asleep at the Wheel as a working-class country band, it's one helluva ride worth telling.' The Austin Chronicle A six-foot-seven-inch Jewish hippie from Philadelphia starts a Western swing band in 1970. It sounds like a joke butmore than forty years, twenty-five albums, and nine Grammy Awards laterAsleep 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 musicVan 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. In this hugely entertaining memoir, Benson looks back over his life and wild ride with Asleep at the Wheel from the band's beginning in Paw Paw, West Virginia, through its many years as a Texas institution. He vividly recalls all the inevitable ups and downs and changes in personnel and describes the making of classic albums such as Willie and the Wheel and Tribute to the Music of Bob Willsand the Texas Playboys. The ultimate music industry insider, Benson explains better than anyone else how the Wheel got rock hipsters and die-hard country fans to love groovy new-old Western swing. Decades later, they still do. ';Ray Benson is somethingcreative, fun, entertainingyou'll love this book!' Dolly Parton ';I've known Ray Benson for over forty years and never could figure out how he does all he does while asleep at the wheel! This book, however, tells how it all went down!' Willie Nelson

A biography of the Sir Douglas Quintet and Texas Tornados founder, a rock and roll innovator whose Grammy Awardwinning career spans half the twentieth century.Doug Sahm was a singer, songwriter, and guitarist of legendary range and reputation. The first American musician to capitalize on the 1960s British invasion, Sahm vaulted to international fame leading a faux-British band called the Sir Douglas Quintet, whose hits included ';She's About a Mover,' ';The Rains Came,' and ';Mendocino.' He made the cover of Rolling Stone magazine in 1968 and 1971 and performed with the Grateful Dead, Dr. John, Willie Nelson, Boz Scaggs, and Bob Dylan.Texas Tornado is the first biography of this national music legend. Jan Reid traces the whole arc of Sahm's incredibly versatile musical career, as well as the manic energy that drove his sometimes-turbulent personal life and loves. Reid follows Sahm from his youth in San Antonio as a prodigy steel guitar player through his breakout success with the Sir Douglas Quintet and his move to California, where, with an inventive take on blues, rock, country, and jazz, he became a star in San Francisco and invented the ';cosmic cowboy' vogue. Reid also chronicles Sahm's later return to Texas and to chart success with the Grammy Awardwinning Texas Tornados, a rowdy ';conjunto rock and roll band' that he modeled on the Beatles and which included Sir Douglas alum Augie Meyers and Tejano icons Freddy Fender and Flaco Jimenez.With his exceptional talent and a career that bridged five decades, Doug Sahm was a rock and roll innovator whose influence can only be matched among his fellow Texas musicians by Buddy Holly, Roy Orbison, Janis Joplin, and Stevie Ray Vaughan. Texas Tornado vividly captures the energy and intensity of this musician whose life burned out too soon, but whose music continues to rock.';Doug was like me, maybe the only figure from that period of time that I connected with. His was a big soul. He had a hit record, ';She's About a Mover,' and I had a hit record [';Like a Rolling Stone'] at the same time. So we became buddies back then, and we played the same kind of music. We never really broke apart. We always hooked up at certain intervals in our lives.... I'd never met anyone who'd played on stage with Hank Williams before, let alone someone my own age. Doug had a heavy frequency, and it was in his nerves.... I miss Doug. He got caught in the grind. He should still be here.' Bob Dylan';I once made the analogy that Doug was like St. Sebastianpierced by 1,000 arrowsbut instead of blood, talent coming out of every wound. I really regard him as the best musician I ever knew, because of his versatility, and the range of his information and taste.' Jerry Wexler, Atlantic Records producer

The definitive account, in words and pictures, of how the most formative players and moments in modern zydeco history developed in Texas, especially Houston.

Through vivid oral histories backed by extensive research, Mojo Hand tells the story of one of America's greatest bluesmen, whose deeply authentic songs and unique style of guitar playing indelibly shaped modern roots, blues, rock 'n' roll, singer-songwri

Acclaimed singer/songwriter Robert Earl Keen offers fans a very personal, beautifully designed songbook, scrapbook, and photo album with lyrics and sheet music for twenty-four favorite songs, intriguing glimpses into the stories behind the songs, photos o

Acclaimed singer-songwriter and Flatlanders band member Joe Ely creates an authentic picture in verse and drawings of a musician's life on the road.

A history of the postwar popular music industry told through the story of the legendary Gold Star/SugarHill studio that has recorded musicians ranging from George Jones to Destiny¿s Child.

From the author of Telling Stories, Writing Songs: An Album of Texas Songwriters comes a fascinating collection of interviews with Texas women singer-songwriters and performers, including Emily Robison, Terri Hendrix, Lee Ann Womack, Rosie Flores, Betty B

Interviews with twenty-five West Texas musicians and artists who seek to answer the question, why do so many innovative musicians come from Lubbock?

Twenty-five of the best and most representative articles from No Depression, the definitive magazine of alternative country music