Asleep at the Wheel, Willie Nelson - Willie and the Wheel
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Free Music Review: Willie does it again!!
Hit: 5 Stars
Willie and Asleep at the Wheel have nailed it again. They are THE artists to play western swing!!Free Music Review: Mature Texan
Hit: 5 Stars
If like me you are old enough to remember and love western swing, then this one is for you.Free Music Review: One of the best
Hit: 5 Stars
Willie and the Wheel is one of the best western swing albums I've ever heard.Free Music Review: Satisfied
Hit: 5 Stars
Great sounding CD, fun to listen too ( evan if you are not a Willie fan )!Free Music Review: definitely worth having, but .....
Hit: 4 Stars
Ray Benson and Asleep at the Wheel only keep getting better and better and somehow they have captured a very subtle essence of western swing that to me seems totally authentic -- the timing, the swing, the looseness, the fun in the music is all right there. Willie Nelson of course has this same sense of timing and looseness right down to the marrow of his bones, and he is a country icon, but if you listen closely you can really hear the manner in which he has to force his voice at times these days, it's audible and detectable for sure, OK, not really bad yet, I suppose, for a guy approaching his late-70's, but it's clearly there none the less. Willie's vocal is less than adequate especially on "Bring it on Down to My House" where he mines the same vocal riff over and over, ignores the melody (you would like to hear it just once), making you think Willie has either forgotten or never knew the actual melody to the song. Also ... Ray needs to get Ruby Jane Smith on an AATW recording, and soon! Jason Roberts is an outstanding fiddler (and vocalist), but I'd rather hear Jason and Ruby Jane for twin fiddles than Jason over-dubbing himself, which is what you have on this CD. For a small sample of how good this ensemble can be (live) go to youtube and watch, especially listen, to them doing "Oh You Pretty Woman" on Austin City Limits. The fiddling especially is outrageously good.