Comin' Right at Ya : : How a Jewish Yankee Hippie Went Country, or, the Often Outrageous History of Asleep at the Wheel / / David Menconi, Ray Benson.
A six-foot-seven-inch Jewish hippie from Philadelphia starts a Western swing band in 1970, when country fans hate hippies and Western swing. It sounds like a joke but—more than forty years, twenty-five albums, and nine Grammy Awards later—Asleep at the Wheel is still drawing crowds around the world....
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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Brad and Michele Moore Roots Music Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (182 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Prologue FEBRUARY 15, 1979
- Friday’s Child
- You Get a Smile Every Ti me with the Heads-up Taste of a Ballantine
- Bright Lights, Big Cities
- Almost Heaven, West Virginia
- A Name of Our Own
- Asleep at the Wheel Goes to Washington
- Go West, Young Man (and Woman)
- On the Road Again
- Into the Mystic with “Th e Beatles of Western Swing”
- Austin Call ing
- On the Bus
- Spinning Texas Gold
- “Framed”
- Deadly Sins
- Write Your Own Song
- The Zen of Willie
- The Film Industry Is a Series of Peaks and Valleys
- 615 Blues
- Ride with Bob
- Ride with Job
- Into the Black
- Epilogue BRINGING IT ALL BACK HOME
- Acknowledgments
- Discography
- Index