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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...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Auteurs principaux: | , |
| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
2015.
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| Édition: | First edition. |
| Collection: | Brad and Michele Moore roots music series.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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.