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Live at Billy Bob's Texas

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This is the Asleep at the Wheel's "NEW" live CD & IMHO superior to the prior one Live @ Arizona Charlie's from a number of years back.
The crowd at Billy Bob's really get into the Wheel's 16 song set on
this CD. What I really like are the 6 new cuts the Wheel has added to their song selection, One Six Pack to Go (Hank Thompson), Hang Up My Spurs & Saddle, Don't Fence Me In, Before the Next Teardrop Falls (Freddy Fender) Amarillo By Morning (Geo. Strait) & If I Needed You (Townes Van Zandt) plus Cotton Eyed Joe. Once again Ray Benson highlights the talents of his fiddle player Jason Roberts. A DVD of this concert will be released shortly. Hopefully in 2004 the Wheel will put out a studio CD with 100% western swing cuts they have never recorded before. Also check out Ray Benson's solo effort "Beyond Time", just great!

Wow! If this 'band' could purge itself of the Lawrence Welk influences and find a way to make the voices sound even a little distinctive, it would still be a far cry from music that I wanna listen to! The group is bland and derivative, worse the entire group seems to be manufacturing the fun instead of having it. Two cuts, Route 66 and Dont Fence Me In are guaranteed covers...guaranteed enjoyable...but NOT HERE. It takes real lead to drag these cuts down, but Asleep is up to that, and does the job! The linar note boast that some of their tunes are "truly honky tonk" is gen-u-ine bunky bunk...Honky tonk isn't even a distant cousin of wannabe line-dance sound. Texas produced Bob Wills, but this is GeoBush...nothin'butMuzak. Hush.