Asleep At The Wheel Celebrates 50 Years In The Lone Star State With ‘Riding High In Texas’

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Asleep At The Wheel is celebrating their five-decade mark in the Lone Star state by dedicating their upcoming 32nd album, Riding High In Texas, to the adopted home where all their dreams came true.

Due out August 22, the ten-song collection features some of the best songs about the 28th state from a wide range of songwriters like Jimmie Rogers, Guy Clark, and Charlie Daniels, with some A-list collaborations with Lyle Lovett and Billy Strings. Since 1970, Asleep At The Wheel has had over 100 members come through the band, and Riding High In Texas is also an opportunity to introduce a new face in the band with fiddler and vocalist Ian Stewart joining founder Ray Benson and company.

“It’s been fifty five years for Asleep At The Wheel as a band, and fifty of them have been spent in Texas,” says Benson. “We are known worldwide for being a Texas band and playing Texas and Western Swing music, and it gives us great pride to carry this torch and responsibility.”

Asleep At The Wheel recently shared the first single from Riding High In Texas, “Texas In My Soul,” which was written by Ernest Tubb and popularized by Willie Nelson, and was chosen for the project because it resonated with, in Benson’s words, “How we felt in 1974 when the band moved to Texas” and is ripe with everything that makes the Wheel the Wheel, twin fiddles, steel guitar licks, and a piano solo along with Benson’s smooth vocals.

Riding High In Texas Track List:
1. “Riding High In Texas”
2. “Texas In My Soul”
3. “Long Tall Texan”
4. “Texas”
5. “Texas Cookin’”
6. “Lonesome Pine Special”
7. “T for Texas (Blue Yodel #1)”
8. “All My Exes (Live in Texas)”
9. “There’s Still a Lot of Love in San Antone”
1o. “Beaumont Rag”

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