Comin' Right at Ya: How a Jewish Yankee Hippie Went Country, Or, the Often Outrageous History of Asleep at the Wheel

by Ray Benson and David Menconi

Book Overview

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 ten Grammy Awards later--Asleep at the Wheel is still drawing crowds around the world. The roster of musicians who've shared a stage with the Wheel is a who's who of American popular music--Van Morrison, Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292756585
• ISBN13: 9780292756588
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.6"