Asleep At The Wheel Celebrates 50th Anniversary With New ‘Better Times’ EP

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Asleep at the Wheel is releasing new music to kick off the celebration of their 50th anniversary this year. On May 28, the band will release a three-song EP, Better Times, produced by band leader Ray Benson via Bismeaux Records.

Benson sings lead vocals on the title track, a hopeful original penned while riding out the pandemic. Asleep at the Wheel vocalist and fiddler Katie Shore offers vocals on “All I’m Asking,” a rousing request to get back together, written by Band of Heathens’ Ed Jurdi and Gordi Quist, while Benson and Shore harmonize together on “Columbus Stockade Blues,” a traditional tune arranged in the spirit of Willie Nelson and Shirley Collie’s 1960s version.

Following the new EP’s release, Asleep at the Wheel will be hitting the road to celebrate with a run of shows that will take them from Texas’ legendary Gruene Hall on May 29, through Texas and Missouri, back down to College Station on June 20.

Asleep at the Wheel Tour Dates:
May 29 – Gruene Hall – Gruene, Texas
June 3 – Birdsong Amphitheater – Stephenville, Texas
June 5 – Starlight Ranch Event Center – Amarillo, Texas
June 6 – Cactus Theater – Lubbock, Texas
June 10 – Rose Music Hall – Columbia, Missouri
June 11 – The Sheldon – St. Louis, Missouri
June 19 – Buck’s Backyard – Buda, Texas
June 20 – Rudder Auditorium – College Station, Texas
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