Asleep at the Wheel: Texas swing royalty

(this piece was published by Planet JH Weekly)Swingin’ Texas fiddle, lap steel and honkytonkin’ piano are but three pieces of the veteran septet Asleep at the Wheel. A humbling nine Grammies over the course of twenty-four albums since 1972, Asleep at the Wheel once played six nights a week for two weeks straight at the Million Dollar Cowboy Bar on Jackson’s Town Square.“Modern country music had taken over and we were the only band playing Western swing,” Benson said of the old days in Jackson. Asleep at the Wheel, 8:30 p.m. Sunday at the Pink Garter Theatre. Texas swing. Major Zephyr opens. $35/advance, $38/day-of-show. PinkGarterTheatre.com.