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Asleep at the Wheel

Because the early ’70s, Asleep in the Wheel have already been the main force to keep the sound of Western golf swing alive. In reviving the freewheeling, eclectic sensibility of Traditional western golf swing godfather Bob Wills, the Steering wheel have gained enthusiastic critical compliment throughout their extended career; they …

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Prairie Oyster

The Canadian European swing group Prairie Oyster produced a short splash for the U.S. graphs in the first ’90s but started playing collectively in 1975, if they had been a trio comprising lead vocalist/bassist Russell de Carle, guitarist Keith Cup, and steel guitarist Denis Delorme. Primarily, they toured and made …

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Lee Roy Parnell

Part of an extended line of Tx roots-music eclectics, Lee Roy Parnell’s music was a mixture of hardcore honky tonk, barroom rock and roll & move, blues, boogie, American swing, blue-eyed spirit, and occasional gospel. Unlike a great many other hard-to-pigeonhole performers, Parnell actually appreciated a operate of achievement on …

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Don McCalister, Jr.

From the music hotbed of Austin, TX, sprang Don McCalister, Jr., a vocalist/songwriter having a revolving band of close friends and music artists that composed his Cowboy Jazz Revue. Intelligent songwriting and McCalister’s clean tenor, backed by way of a Traditional western golf swing and jazz-tinged nation sound, drew evaluations …

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