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: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1477326707
• ISBN13: 9781477326701
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"