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Comin' right at ya : how a Jewish Yankee hippie went country, or, the often outrageous history of Asleep at the Wheel /

<P>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 t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Benson, Ray, 1951- (Autor), Menconi, David (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2015.
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Brad and Michele Moore roots music series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue : February 15, 1979
  • Friday's child
  • You get a smile every time 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 "The Beatles of western swing"
  • Austin calling
  • 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.