MENOMONIE — Asleep at the Wheel frontman Ray Benson remembers back in the late 1960s when his band started to take shape. “Me and my pals I grew up with — we were searching around and realized that we ...

Cover art for Swingin’ and Skankin’ (courtesy Tafari Records). A single from that album, “Put it On,” was released Wednesday. The rest of the album will be out Aug. 30 from Tafari Records. In the ...

Friday's three-hour delay to the start of this year's Austin City Limits Music Festival wiped out the traditional fest-opening set by local western swing legends Asleep at the Wheel, who were ...

When Asleep at the Wheel decided to record a record of Texas-centric songs to commemorate the Western swing outfit spending 50 of its 55 years in the Lone Star State, Ray Benson had a simple request: ...

Standing 6 feet, 6 inches tall and wearing size 16 cowboy boots, Ray Benson is an undeniably big guy. And over the past five decades, he has cultivated a proportionally large legacy in Texas music ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Grammy-winning Asleep at the Wheel's Ray Benson is gearing up to sell five decades' worth of memories next month. According to a report by KVUE's news partners at the Austin ...

Fans of Asleep at the Wheel should ask themselves a question before picking up bandleader Ray Benson's new solo CD: Will it be a bad thing if it ain't got a lot of that Western swing? If the answer is ...