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Comin' Right at YA: How a Jewish Yankee Hippie Went Country, Or, the Often Outrageous History of Asleep at the Wheel

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Comin' Right at YA: How a Jewish Yankee Hippie Went Country, Or, the Often Outrageous History of Asleep at the Wheel - Benson, Ray, and Menconi, David
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A who's who of American popular music fills this lively memoir, in which Ray Benson recalls how a Philadelphia Jewish hippie and his bandmates in Asleep at the Wheel turned on generations of rock and country fans to Bob Wills-style Western swing. 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 ...

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Comin' Right at YA: How a Jewish Yankee Hippie Went Country, Or, the Often Outrageous History of Asleep at the Wheel 2022, University of Texas Press

ISBN-13: 9781477326701

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 Comin' Right at Ya: How a Jewish Yankee Hippie Went Country, or, the Often Outrageous History of Asleep at the Wheel 2015, University of Texas Press, Austin, TX

ISBN-13: 9780292756588

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