Asleep At The Wheel

Live Review: Asleep at the Wheel + Jack Browning, Cadogan Hall, London – 4th June 2024

June 13, 2024 Brian Hancill 2

If you play an Asleep at the Wheel song on Spotify via your smart TV the picture that fills the screen shows bandleader Ray Benson at the centre of a collage of nearly 50 musicians. These […]

Red Rooster Festival returns for 10th Anniversary

February 16, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0

As spring filters into summer, it’s time for 2024’s Red Rooster Festival in Suffolk over the 30th May to 1st June weekend. The festival celebrates its 10th anniversary this year and features an impressive list of […]

Interview: The Shootouts’ Ryan Humbert on delivering roots music from Akron Ohio

May 23, 2023 Martin Johnson 0

Doing their bit to bring fun into the lives of modern-day Americans and keeping classic country alive. Do you like roots rock which is fun to listen to, the Shootouts do and they are on a […]

AUK’s Chain Gang: Asleep At The Wheel “Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)”

August 1, 2022 Martin Johnson 0

Alcohol is an addictive substance and therefore it is a very hard habit to break once you become addicted to it, but after quite a binge session over recent weeks in Chain Gang, it is time […]

Interview: Ray Benson of Asleep At The Wheel on 50 years of western swing

October 8, 2021 Martin Johnson 0

How a little hippie boy and his friends helped preserve and enhance Bob Wills’ legacy. .Asleep At Wheel have been keeping the western swing genre alive ever since a little Jewish hippie boy named Ray Benson […]