Today's country sucks with people like Beyonce, Nas, jelly Roll and a whole bunch of others. So, I'm posting classic/traditional country music!!
Asleep at the Wheel is an American Western Swing music group that was formed in Paw Paw, West Virginia,[4] and is based in Austin, Texas. The band has won nine Grammy Awards since their 1970 inception, released over twenty albums, and has charted more than 21 singles on the Billboard country charts. Their highest-charting single, "The Letter That Johnny Walker Read", peaked at No. 10 in 1975.
Tonight's double shot of great country music!
"The Letter That Johnny Walker Read" is a song written and recorded by the American country music band Asleep at the Wheel. It was released in August 1975. The song's title is a reference to the Johnnie Walker "Red Label" Scotch whiskey. It was their highest-charting single, reaching number 10 on the Hot Country Singles charts
"Asleep at the Wheel recorded "Miles and Miles of Texas" in 1976. It was the second of three singles released from their 1976 LP, Wheelin' and Dealin'.
Bonus tracks.
"Hot Rod Lincoln" is a song by American singer-songwriter Charlie Ryan, first released in 1955. Asleep at the Wheel, on Western Standard Time (1988); this version reached no. 65 on Billboard's Hot Country Songs
"(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66" is a popular rhythm and blues song, composed in 1946 by American songwriter Bobby Troup. The lyrics relate a westward roadtrip on U.S. Route 66, a highway which traversed the western two-thirds of the U.S. from Chicago, Illinois, to Los Angeles, California.
"Take Me Back to Tulsa" is a Western swing standard song. Bob Wills and Tommy Duncan added words and music to the melody of the traditional fiddle tune "Walkin' Georgia Rose" in 1940. The country music group Asleep at the Wheel covered the song on their 1973 album Comin' Right at Ya.
The Wheel Keeps on Rollin' is the 13th studio album by American country band Asleep at the Wheel. Recorded at studios in Austin, Texas, and Nashville, Tennessee, it was produced by Andy Byrd with the band's frontman Ray Benson and released on November 21, 1995
"The House, Asleep at the Wheel peaked at number 17 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart in 1987. House of Blue Lights" is a boogie woogie-style popular song written by Don Raye and Freddie Slack. Published in 1946.