Ray Benson, band leader of Asleep at the Wheel, celebrated his birthday with a wonderful line-up of musical friends including Band of Heathens, Raul Malo, Reckless Kelly, Carolyn Wonderland, Shelley King, Kat Edmonson, The Texas Tornados, and J.D. Souther.
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When disaster strikes, the musicians of Austin are quick to respond with a benefit concert. For the people of Haiti that were devastated by the earthquake two weeks ago, Joe Ely and over twenty of his most talented friends joined together with some 2,000 music lovers for a ten hour marathon concert at the Austin Music Hall Sunday to raise money and show support.
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After hundreds of hours listening to all types of new music from the last year, we’re pleased to bring you our “best of 2009″ list with some of our favorites and a few that slipped through the cracks in our radar but we love just the same.
Download our Best of 2009 iMix with our favorite track from each of these records.
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Rosie Flores
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After years of slightly questionable projects that may have sounded good during a three-in-the-morning-fog but failed in practice (the reggae album, that song with Snoop Dogg to name a few) Willie Nelson’s finally made a winner.
With Ray Benson and the rest of Asleep at the Wheel, the aptly titled Willie and the Wheel is possibly the best thing to happen to western swing since Bob Wills.
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Unlike most easy listening radio stations and large department stores, I don’t start the holiday music until about a week before Christmas.
And it’s not that I don’t love Brenda Lee, but I can only take so much rocking around trees and decking the halls before the songs start to sound like week-old fallen snow.
So turn off the radio and spend your holidays with something slightly different.
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Ray Benson
With a scant fifty audience members, local Boulder band the Unknown Americans started the show at the Fox Theater with their songs of barbecue and founding fathers.
Up next came the Austin-based Mother Truckers with their rocking country tunes, a bluesy cover of Love Me Like A Man and momentarily awkward conversations about Billy Joe Shaver.
The crowd was still, as Teal Collins put it, arranged like chess pieces, with nobody crowding each other.
Finally, band leader Ray Benson and the rest of Asleep at the Wheel took the stage.
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“My governor is a Jewish Cowboy.”
“He ain’t Kinky, he’s my governor.”
“Why the Hell not?”
If you weren’t in the general vicinity of Austin, Texas in 2006 you probably missed these bumper stickers as well as some of Kinky Friedman’s other campaign slogans which included, “How hard can it be?” and a whole series of television ads featuring the likes of Willie Nelson, Billy Joe Shaver and the Dixie Chicks.
While he lost the gubernatorial race and with it the opportunity to start the “dewussification of Texas” the former child-chess-player-turned-musician-turned-author is just as funny, and potentially offensive as he ever was.
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