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Ray Benson Seifert (born March 16, 1951) is an American musician, actor and voice actor who is the frontman of the Western swing band Asleep at the Wheel.
In 1969, Ray Benson and Lucky Oceans (Reuben Gosfield) co-founded Asleep at the Wheel in Paw Paw, West Virginia, and soon after they found themselves opening for Alice Cooper and Hot Tuna in Washington, D.C. [4] A year later, they moved to East Oakland, California, at the invitation of Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen. [5]
In 1970, singer and guitarist Ray Benson formed Western swing band Asleep at the Wheel while farmsitting in the tiny town of Paw Paw, West Virginia. Benson and his bandmates...
Feb 24, 2024 · Frontman, bandleader, and singer Ray Benson has been there from the beginning and will be for the foreseeable future. Recently, Benson sat down with American Songwriter to discuss what that...
The Official website for Western swing band Asleep At The Wheel. Commemorating their 50th year with upcoming album "Half A Hundred Years".
Oct 4, 2021 · Ray Benson in his Austin studio. There are many metrics in the world of music: popularity, Grammys, live performance. A musician up the road in Austin has achieved them all. He’s the legendary Texan Ray Benson. But one of the biggest, most genuine voices in Texas music isn’t from Texas at all.
Oct 4, 2021 · It’s a story, Benson says, about how “a tall skinny Jewish kid from Philly” became a fervent purveyor of age-old music traditions and steady leader of an...
Mar 20, 2015 · That's how Ray Benson distills the mission of the man who helped create western swing, the uptempo country style that ruled dance halls in the 1930s and '40s.
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Jan 6, 2017 · The musical partnership between Texas troubadours Dale Watson and Ray Benson, the frontman of Western-swing outfit Asleep at the Wheel, has been decades in the making, thanks in large part to...