Editor’s Note: Decorated live event TV director-producer Don Mischer, a fifteen-time Emmy Award winner, has worked frequently with country legend Willie Nelson, who turns 90 today. The following is a chapter from Mischer’s forthcoming book,10 Seconds To Air: A Life in the Director’s Chair, written by him and Sara Lukinson.
On the Road With Willie Nelson: The Bus, The Rattlesnakes, Roadside Joints and Always The Music
Maybe it’s because we both came out of the same Texas soil, or maybe it’s because when I was in junior high school, I played a double-neck fender steel guitar with country bands and Willie was my idol and inspiration. But Willie Nelson has always had a special place in my heart.
Then, after my career got going and we started working together, I realized something else about him: he is always the same Willie, whether we are traveling around...
On the Road With Willie Nelson: The Bus, The Rattlesnakes, Roadside Joints and Always The Music
Maybe it’s because we both came out of the same Texas soil, or maybe it’s because when I was in junior high school, I played a double-neck fender steel guitar with country bands and Willie was my idol and inspiration. But Willie Nelson has always had a special place in my heart.
Then, after my career got going and we started working together, I realized something else about him: he is always the same Willie, whether we are traveling around...
- 4/29/2023
- by Don Mischer
- Deadline Film + TV
On May 13, 1975, Ray Benson, leader of the Western-swing heroes Asleep at the Wheel, was readying his band to make their stage debut at the Longhorn Ballroom in Dallas, Texas, when he received the news that Bob Wills, the “King of Western Swing,” had died that morning in nearby Fort Worth.
“An AP reporter told me as I got off the bus,” the 72-year-old tells Rolling Stone backstage at the recent grand reopening of the Longhorn. “He says, ‘Are you going to cancel?’ I said, ‘Cancel? We’re going to glorify this and play his music.
“An AP reporter told me as I got off the bus,” the 72-year-old tells Rolling Stone backstage at the recent grand reopening of the Longhorn. “He says, ‘Are you going to cancel?’ I said, ‘Cancel? We’re going to glorify this and play his music.
- 4/14/2023
- by Garret K. Woodward
- Rollingstone.com
“I have a love/hate relationship with the term ‘outlaw,'” Eric Church says in the opening moments of the the trailer to They Called Us Outlaws: Cosmic Cowboys, Honky Tonk Heroes And the Rise of Renegade Troubadours, a six-part documentary due next year.
Executive produced by country music luminaries Jessi Colter, Ray Benson, and Jack Ingram (who narrates), the 12-hour film, released in association with the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, will feature interviews or performances from names like Church and Miranda Lambert to contemporary singer-songwriters Tyler Childers and Charley Crockett,...
Executive produced by country music luminaries Jessi Colter, Ray Benson, and Jack Ingram (who narrates), the 12-hour film, released in association with the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, will feature interviews or performances from names like Church and Miranda Lambert to contemporary singer-songwriters Tyler Childers and Charley Crockett,...
- 8/30/2022
- by Jonathan Bernstein
- Rollingstone.com
Exclusive: Imperative Entertainment, the company behind the Boomtown podcast, which is being adapted into a Billy Bob Thornton-fronted series from Taylor Sheridan, has set its latest Texas podcast.
The company has teamed with Wes Ferguson on Standoff, a series about Fred Gomez Carrasco, a drug cartel kingpin and orchestrator of the 1974 Huntsville, Texas, prison siege.
Ferguson, whose Texas Monthly article “When ‘Angels in America’ Came to East Texas” is being developed as a limited series for HBO Max, is the creator and host of the podcast, which explores the siege that was one of the most infamous hostage crises in American history and played out in dramatic fashion over 11 days, all in front of a terrified national audience.
The 10-part series, which launches March 21, will feature 100 hours of audio containing the actual hostage negotiations and the deadly shoot-out.
Produced by Imperative, it is exec produced by the company’s President of Podcasts Jason Hoch.
The company has teamed with Wes Ferguson on Standoff, a series about Fred Gomez Carrasco, a drug cartel kingpin and orchestrator of the 1974 Huntsville, Texas, prison siege.
Ferguson, whose Texas Monthly article “When ‘Angels in America’ Came to East Texas” is being developed as a limited series for HBO Max, is the creator and host of the podcast, which explores the siege that was one of the most infamous hostage crises in American history and played out in dramatic fashion over 11 days, all in front of a terrified national audience.
The 10-part series, which launches March 21, will feature 100 hours of audio containing the actual hostage negotiations and the deadly shoot-out.
Produced by Imperative, it is exec produced by the company’s President of Podcasts Jason Hoch.
- 3/16/2022
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Asleep at the Wheel mark 50 years together as a band with the upcoming album Half a Hundred Years. It’s an all-star project, with artists like Lyle Lovett and Lee Ann Womack joining Wheel leader Ray Benson and his big Texas band. For “Take Me Back to Tulsa,” released on Friday, two Lone Star icons come onboard: Willie Nelson and George Strait.
Strait handles the bulk of the verses of the Western swing standard, popularized by Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys in 1941. It’s a staple for Strait, who...
Strait handles the bulk of the verses of the Western swing standard, popularized by Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys in 1941. It’s a staple for Strait, who...
- 8/27/2021
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
Asleep at the Wheel, the long-running and influential Western-swing band, will mark 50 years together with a new album. The aptly titled Half a Hundred Years will be released in October and features a number of all-star guests.
The Wheel preview the upcoming LP with the title track, released on Friday. Elevated by buoyant horns and singer Ray Benson’s drawling baritone, the track is the ultimate road song: “I’ve been on the road for half a hundred years,” Benson boasts.
“I was trying to get across the sacrifices you...
The Wheel preview the upcoming LP with the title track, released on Friday. Elevated by buoyant horns and singer Ray Benson’s drawling baritone, the track is the ultimate road song: “I’ve been on the road for half a hundred years,” Benson boasts.
“I was trying to get across the sacrifices you...
- 8/6/2021
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
James White, who owned one of Austin’s most popular honky-tonks, the legendary Broken Spoke dance hall, died today from congestive heart failure complications, according to his daughter. He was 81 and died at his South Austin home.
White founded the Broken Spoke on South Lamar Boulevard in 1964, and it soon became a must-stop for the city’s musicians and tourists.
“He gave us a place to perform the music that we wanted to do in the atmosphere that we wanted — a Texas dance hall,” said Ray Benson, speaking to the Austin American-Statesman. “James was one of the most magnanimous and generally nice people — with a capital ‘N’ — in this world.”
The Broken Spoke was a mecca for top country talent. Among its performing alumni are Bob Wills, Ernest Tubb, Garth Brooks and the Dixie Chicks.
White was the quintessential honky-tonk owner, a gregarious sort always decked out in cowboy hat,...
White founded the Broken Spoke on South Lamar Boulevard in 1964, and it soon became a must-stop for the city’s musicians and tourists.
“He gave us a place to perform the music that we wanted to do in the atmosphere that we wanted — a Texas dance hall,” said Ray Benson, speaking to the Austin American-Statesman. “James was one of the most magnanimous and generally nice people — with a capital ‘N’ — in this world.”
The Broken Spoke was a mecca for top country talent. Among its performing alumni are Bob Wills, Ernest Tubb, Garth Brooks and the Dixie Chicks.
White was the quintessential honky-tonk owner, a gregarious sort always decked out in cowboy hat,...
- 1/24/2021
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
In light of the Covid-19 pandemic and social distancing guidelines, Ray Benson’s long-running Birthday Bash in Austin has been turned into a virtual concert for its 2020 edition. Set for Saturday, May 16th, at 8 p.m. Ct, the event will, as usual, benefit the Health Alliance for Austin Musicians and is led by performances by Asleep at the Wheel, Willie Nelson, and a top-notch group of country and roots artists.
Additional performers on the bill include Kat Edmonson, Randy Rogers, David Beck’s Tejano Weekend, Tami Neilson, Seth James, Randy Houser,...
Additional performers on the bill include Kat Edmonson, Randy Rogers, David Beck’s Tejano Weekend, Tami Neilson, Seth James, Randy Houser,...
- 5/12/2020
- by Jon Freeman
- Rollingstone.com
Collaboration is at the very heart of Randy Rogers and Wade Bowen’s partnership under the “Hold My Beer” name, refined over 15 years or so of live performances and expertly distilled on the friendly duo’s 2015 debut album. But there’s an entirely new type of collaboration on the Texas singer-songwriters’ Hold My Beer, Vol. 2 — one that stretches back across a generation of country-music history and includes the iconic voice of Waylon Jennings.
Midway through the album, released on Friday, “Ode to Ben Dorcy (Lovey’s Song)” gets underway with a scratchy acoustic guitar strum,...
Midway through the album, released on Friday, “Ode to Ben Dorcy (Lovey’s Song)” gets underway with a scratchy acoustic guitar strum,...
- 5/8/2020
- by Jon Freeman
- Rollingstone.com
When the coughing jags began on March 16th, Larry Campbell first attributed it to the early onset of pollen. The guitarist, Grammy-winning producer of three Levon Helm albums and respected backup player for Helm and Bob Dylan was back home in Woodstock, New York after a few days in New York City. Then came a fever that spiked over 100 degrees, and three days later, the 65-year-old musician was tested for the coronavirus. The results came back positive a few days later.
Covid-19 is impacting everywhere, including the music community. It...
Covid-19 is impacting everywhere, including the music community. It...
- 4/2/2020
- by David Browne
- Rollingstone.com
Asleep at the Wheel leader Ray Benson announced that he has tested positive for Covid-19, better known as the novel coronavirus.
Benson revealed his diagnosis via Facebook on Tuesday, saying that he’d “been feeling tired for about 10 days.”
“Went to be tested on the 21st. No tests, so went home. Went back yesterday feelin’ the same — tired, out of it — and they tested. First call this mornin’ from lab sayin’ you got it!” Benson wrote. “Hoping for the best. Don’t have the usual symptoms, but feel tired, headache,...
Benson revealed his diagnosis via Facebook on Tuesday, saying that he’d “been feeling tired for about 10 days.”
“Went to be tested on the 21st. No tests, so went home. Went back yesterday feelin’ the same — tired, out of it — and they tested. First call this mornin’ from lab sayin’ you got it!” Benson wrote. “Hoping for the best. Don’t have the usual symptoms, but feel tired, headache,...
- 3/31/2020
- by Jon Freeman
- Rollingstone.com
The eighth annual Luck Reunion was supposed to draw around 4,000 people to Willie Nelson’s Texas ranch this week, with a lineup that included Nelson, Lucinda Williams, John Prine, Margo Price, Nathaniel Rateliff, and more. Those plans, of course, went out the window due to Covid-19.
Instead of canceling altogether, the small Luck Team — headed up by founders Matt Bizer and Ellee Fletcher — decided to get creative, reviving the festival as a livestream concert, with performers broadcasting from their homes for charity. The result was more impactful than any traditional festival could have been.
Instead of canceling altogether, the small Luck Team — headed up by founders Matt Bizer and Ellee Fletcher — decided to get creative, reviving the festival as a livestream concert, with performers broadcasting from their homes for charity. The result was more impactful than any traditional festival could have been.
- 3/20/2020
- by Patrick Doyle
- Rollingstone.com
With the coronavirus continuing to force artists to cancel or postpone tours and festivals, many have taken their shows to social media — livestreaming from the comforts of their homes and offering fans a glimpse of their lives. From Brian Wilson to Diplo, here are the best performances so far of the stay-at-home era. Click through and find something to pass all the hours you’ll have to spend inside for the good of yourself and others.
Neil Young
When Neil Young streamed a performance of the digital rally for Bernie Sanders earlier in the week,...
Neil Young
When Neil Young streamed a performance of the digital rally for Bernie Sanders earlier in the week,...
- 3/20/2020
- by Jonathan Bernstein, Jon Blistein, Patrick Doyle, Andy Greene, Joseph Hudak, Elias Leight, Angie Martoccio, Hank Shteamer, Brittany Spanos and Simon Vozick-Levinson
- Rollingstone.com
Huey Lewis & The News premiered their new music video for “Her Love Is Killin’ Me” during an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live. The star-studded video features an appearance by Kimmel, who says he is living out a long-held dream, as well as numerous other celebrities.
The video includes cameos from Brandon Flowers, Cedric the Entertainer, Jimmy Buffett, Michael Keaton, Yvette Nicole Brown, Rick Sutcliffe, Bruce Bochy, June Lockhart, Sal Iacono, Andy Garcia, Ray Benson, Chris Berman, Topher Grace, Brad Paisley, Sean Hayes, Joe Montana, Patrick Warburton and Wendie Malick, all...
The video includes cameos from Brandon Flowers, Cedric the Entertainer, Jimmy Buffett, Michael Keaton, Yvette Nicole Brown, Rick Sutcliffe, Bruce Bochy, June Lockhart, Sal Iacono, Andy Garcia, Ray Benson, Chris Berman, Topher Grace, Brad Paisley, Sean Hayes, Joe Montana, Patrick Warburton and Wendie Malick, all...
- 2/14/2020
- by Emily Zemler
- Rollingstone.com
For a half-century, Asleep at the Wheel, led by the towering Ray Benson, have put their modern spin on the Western swing music popularized by Oklahoma legend Bob Wills, now outlasting Wills’ Texas Playboys as an active group by 11 years. In celebration of the band’s golden anniversary, they’ll undertake a series of reunion shows featuring Benson and members of the band’s original line-up: Lucky Oceans, Leroy Preston, Chris O’Connell, and Floyd Domino.
Also coming in 2020 will be a reunion album produced by Buddy Miller. Still Comin’ Right at Ya,...
Also coming in 2020 will be a reunion album produced by Buddy Miller. Still Comin’ Right at Ya,...
- 11/18/2019
- by Stephen L. Betts
- Rollingstone.com
The Americana Music Association U.K. (Ama-uk), a self-described “little sister” of the Nashville-based Ama, recently held their annual conference in London, with last weekend’s U.K. Americana Awards ceremony the centerpiece.
At the gala, staged at Hackney Empire in East London, Mary Gauthier was named International Artist of the Year, while Brandi Carlile’s powerful “The Joke” took home the award for International Song of the Year. Courtney Marie Andrews’ May Your Kindness Remain was crowned International Album of the Year.
Winning U.K. artists — most of whom...
At the gala, staged at Hackney Empire in East London, Mary Gauthier was named International Artist of the Year, while Brandi Carlile’s powerful “The Joke” took home the award for International Song of the Year. Courtney Marie Andrews’ May Your Kindness Remain was crowned International Album of the Year.
Winning U.K. artists — most of whom...
- 2/5/2019
- by Stephen L. Betts
- Rollingstone.com
TV tapings can be a drag. But amid the set changes and staged introductions from host Ed Helms at Saturday night’s all-star tribute to Willie Nelson in Nashville, there were some true moments of musical spontaneity — particularly from the guest of honor.
Titled Willie: Life & Songs of an American Outlaw and produced by Blackbird Presents, the concert, which will air sometime this year on A&E, assembled a powerful cast of guest artists to pay tribute to the 85-year-old. George Strait, Kris Kristofferson, Emmylou Harris, Jimmy Buffett, Jason Isbell, Sturgill Simpson...
Titled Willie: Life & Songs of an American Outlaw and produced by Blackbird Presents, the concert, which will air sometime this year on A&E, assembled a powerful cast of guest artists to pay tribute to the 85-year-old. George Strait, Kris Kristofferson, Emmylou Harris, Jimmy Buffett, Jason Isbell, Sturgill Simpson...
- 1/13/2019
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
This year brought its share of spirited (to put it mildly) discussion in country music, with multiple genre-crossing collaborations reaching the charts. Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line ruled for 50 weeks straight with “Meant to Be,” while Maren Morris lent her soulful pipes to Zedd and Grey’s ebullient dance track “The Middle,” now nominated for a Record of the Year Grammy. Additionally, 2018 saw winning collaborations in the country mainstream, like Dierks Bentley and Brothers Osborne’s “Burning Man,” as well as in Americana, with Robbie Fulks and Linda Gail Lewis’ “Wild!
- 12/24/2018
- by Jeff Gage
- Rollingstone.com
With an already impressive lineup in place, the star-studded tribute to legendary entertainer Willie Nelson has expanded with a new group of performers.
Joining the lineup of the January 12th event at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena are Chris Stapleton, Emmylou Harris, Eric Church, Jimmy Buffett, Bobby Bare, Jamey Johnson, Lukas Nelson, Margo Price, Micah Nelson, Nathaniel Rateliff, Ray Benson and Steve Earle. Previously announced performers for Willie: Life & Songs of an American Outlaw include George Strait, Alison Krauss, the Avett Brothers, Jack Johnson, John Mellencamp, Kris Kristofferson, Lee Ann Womack,...
Joining the lineup of the January 12th event at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena are Chris Stapleton, Emmylou Harris, Eric Church, Jimmy Buffett, Bobby Bare, Jamey Johnson, Lukas Nelson, Margo Price, Micah Nelson, Nathaniel Rateliff, Ray Benson and Steve Earle. Previously announced performers for Willie: Life & Songs of an American Outlaw include George Strait, Alison Krauss, the Avett Brothers, Jack Johnson, John Mellencamp, Kris Kristofferson, Lee Ann Womack,...
- 12/18/2018
- by Stephen L. Betts
- Rollingstone.com
If Ray Benson isn’t onstage, he can likely be found on his bus, talking music with one of his bandmates in Asleep at the Wheel, big fat joint in hand. Tonight, he’s sharing that joint with singer and fiddler Katie Shore, a prominent part of the Western-swing group’s latest LP, New Routes, which came out earlier this month. With his guitar resting on his knee, Benson has somehow folded his six-foot-seven-inch frame into a bench seat on the bus, which is parked behind the Longhorn Ballroom, an old dancehall in Dallas,...
- 9/26/2018
- by Jeff Gage
- Rollingstone.com
After 48 years of making music, Asleep at the Wheel will be the first to admit there’s nothing new under the sun — and when it comes to country songs, you can probably thank Willie Nelson for those. So says the veteran Texas swing act on their latest track, “Willie Got There First,” featuring Seth and Scott Avett of the Avett Brothers.
Written by Seth Avett, “Willie Got There First” is a playful ode to the Red Headed Stranger and his omnipresent influence on the genre. “I had such a good idea for a song,...
Written by Seth Avett, “Willie Got There First” is a playful ode to the Red Headed Stranger and his omnipresent influence on the genre. “I had such a good idea for a song,...
- 8/23/2018
- by Jeff Gage
- Rollingstone.com
The Americana Music Association is teaming up with the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum for this year’s AmericanaFest, creating a string of special events — including artist Q&As, book discussions and acoustic performances — that reach beyond the festival’s nightly programming.
First up is in an interview with Texas-country icon Robert Earl Keen, conducted by longtime music journalist (and current Hall of Fame senior director) Peter Cooper on Wednesday, September 12th. On Friday, author Bill C. Malone discusses his popular book Country Music, U.S.A., which...
First up is in an interview with Texas-country icon Robert Earl Keen, conducted by longtime music journalist (and current Hall of Fame senior director) Peter Cooper on Wednesday, September 12th. On Friday, author Bill C. Malone discusses his popular book Country Music, U.S.A., which...
- 8/21/2018
- by Robert Crawford
- Rollingstone.com
Having a new LP is always something of a relative term in Asleep at the Wheel’s world, given how steeped they are in Western swing and other classic forms. The Texas ensemble tackles a rockabilly standard with their latest release, a rambunctious rendition of “Seven Nights to Rock.”
The song was written by Buck Trail, Henry Glover, and Louis Innis more than a half century ago, and first recorded in 1956 by Moon Mullican. One of the most famous versions was done by Nick Lowe, but Brian Setzer, Bryan Adams,...
The song was written by Buck Trail, Henry Glover, and Louis Innis more than a half century ago, and first recorded in 1956 by Moon Mullican. One of the most famous versions was done by Nick Lowe, but Brian Setzer, Bryan Adams,...
- 8/6/2018
- by Jeff Gage
- Rollingstone.com
A band as seasoned as Asleep at the Wheel hardly needs to put out new music these days. With a 48-year run that spans more than 20 albums, there’s plenty of material for Ray Benson and his crew to draw upon. But the Texas-based Western swing ensemble is back at it with a new LP, New Routes, and a youthful reimagining of an old-fashioned ode to getting high, “Jack I’m Mellow.”
Benson’s figure has towered over Asleep at the Wheel since its founding in West Virginia in 1970, not...
Benson’s figure has towered over Asleep at the Wheel since its founding in West Virginia in 1970, not...
- 7/12/2018
- by Jeff Gage
- Rollingstone.com
Welcome to hell. In order to properly contextualize just how painful it is to sit through “Escape Plan 2: Hades,” here is a comprehensive list of the movie’s virtues:
Sylvester Stallone successfully says the word “algorithm.” 50 Cent plays a GQ-styled security expert named “Hush.” There’s a scene where Dave Bautista solves a Rubik’s Cube and then physically threatens Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz. At one point, Bautista walks by a marquee for Idina Menzel while wearing an outfit that can only be described as “Pitbull cos-play.” The film immediately cuts away the moment that Stallone begins to creep on one of his employees. That employee is played by Jaime King, an actress who continues to make everything she’s in at least a little bit better. Titus Welliver shows up as an ultra-serious bad guy who insists that his victims call him “The Zookeeper.”
And that’s it.
Sylvester Stallone successfully says the word “algorithm.” 50 Cent plays a GQ-styled security expert named “Hush.” There’s a scene where Dave Bautista solves a Rubik’s Cube and then physically threatens Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz. At one point, Bautista walks by a marquee for Idina Menzel while wearing an outfit that can only be described as “Pitbull cos-play.” The film immediately cuts away the moment that Stallone begins to creep on one of his employees. That employee is played by Jaime King, an actress who continues to make everything she’s in at least a little bit better. Titus Welliver shows up as an ultra-serious bad guy who insists that his victims call him “The Zookeeper.”
And that’s it.
- 6/29/2018
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Saving Mr. Banks (Disney)
How many of you remember Walt Disney and Tinkerbell's opening every Sunday night on his primetime television show? That director John Lee Hancock (The Blind Side) recreates that magical moment is just one of the many small charms in this wonderful movie. Award-winning actors taking on American's greatest children's entertainment advocate seems a delicious proposition. And it is. This is the story of Walt's (Tom Hanks) -- he preferred that everyone refer to each other by their first names on his studio lot -- relentless pursuit (20 years!) of Mrs. P.L. Travers's (Emma Thompson) much-beloved literary classic Mary Poppins.
Director Hancock seamlessly threads two plots together: the trials and tribulations of the backstage Hollywood drama of creating the film version of Mary Poppins, and the Australian-based melodrama of Mrs. Travers's childhood with her loving but tragically alcoholic father "Ginty" Goth, portrayed by the charismatic Colin Farrell.
How many of you remember Walt Disney and Tinkerbell's opening every Sunday night on his primetime television show? That director John Lee Hancock (The Blind Side) recreates that magical moment is just one of the many small charms in this wonderful movie. Award-winning actors taking on American's greatest children's entertainment advocate seems a delicious proposition. And it is. This is the story of Walt's (Tom Hanks) -- he preferred that everyone refer to each other by their first names on his studio lot -- relentless pursuit (20 years!) of Mrs. P.L. Travers's (Emma Thompson) much-beloved literary classic Mary Poppins.
Director Hancock seamlessly threads two plots together: the trials and tribulations of the backstage Hollywood drama of creating the film version of Mary Poppins, and the Australian-based melodrama of Mrs. Travers's childhood with her loving but tragically alcoholic father "Ginty" Goth, portrayed by the charismatic Colin Farrell.
- 12/17/2013
- by Dusty Wright
- www.culturecatch.com
You don’t exactly get to hear Angels Sing, as the title of the new Christmas-themed movie would have it, but the film comes pretty close. This Austin-set, modern-day variation of Miracle on 34th Street about a father who disdains Christmas features Willie Nelson and Lyle Lovett singing holiday classics, as well as cameos by such music stars as Dale Watson, Sara Hickman, Marcia Ball, Charlie Sexton, Miss Lavelle White and Asleep at the Wheel’s Ray Benson. They deliver a refreshing musical Texan twang to this Hallmark Hall of Fame-style family movie that should enjoy a long
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- 11/26/2013
- by Frank Scheck
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
You may recall that in my 2009 in Review article, I named the Austin Film Festival's "Made in Texas" monthly screenings as "Film Series I Most Want to Return in 2010." I'm happy to report that Made in Texas is returning this month -- I'm sure my article had everything to do with it -- and will run through September.
The series kicks off on Wednesday, March 10 with Roadie, the 1980 Alan Rudolph film that was shot on location around Austin. The movie stars Meat Loaf and Art Carney, but the cast also includes Sonny Carl Davis (The Whole Shootin' Match), Ray Benson and Asleep at the Wheel, and a number of other musicians.
The films will be shown monthly on Wednesdays at 7:30 pm in the Texas Spirit Theater at the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum. Admission is free for Aff and Texas State History Museum members, and $5 for everyone else.
The series kicks off on Wednesday, March 10 with Roadie, the 1980 Alan Rudolph film that was shot on location around Austin. The movie stars Meat Loaf and Art Carney, but the cast also includes Sonny Carl Davis (The Whole Shootin' Match), Ray Benson and Asleep at the Wheel, and a number of other musicians.
The films will be shown monthly on Wednesdays at 7:30 pm in the Texas Spirit Theater at the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum. Admission is free for Aff and Texas State History Museum members, and $5 for everyone else.
- 3/1/2010
- by Jette Kernion
- Slackerwood
The legendary western swing band, Asleep at the Wheel will be honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award for Performance at the Americana Honors & Awards ceremony in September at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. Willie Nelson, himself a past award recipient of the Ama's Lifetime Achievement for Songwriting is especially proud of the band as he recently collaborated with the band.
Since 1969, the Austin-based band has released over twenty-five albums and charted more than twenty Billboard singles. The group has also won nine Grammy Awards along the way. The Wheel has perservered and brought Western swing to the masses throughout the years touring with everyone from Alice Cooper to Emmylou Harris and George Strait.
The group has been a fixture on PBS's series Austin City Limits as well as appeared in movies. Most recently they starred in the award-winning musical drama about Bob Wills, A Ride with Bob: The Bob Wills Musical,...
Since 1969, the Austin-based band has released over twenty-five albums and charted more than twenty Billboard singles. The group has also won nine Grammy Awards along the way. The Wheel has perservered and brought Western swing to the masses throughout the years touring with everyone from Alice Cooper to Emmylou Harris and George Strait.
The group has been a fixture on PBS's series Austin City Limits as well as appeared in movies. Most recently they starred in the award-winning musical drama about Bob Wills, A Ride with Bob: The Bob Wills Musical,...
- 7/14/2009
- icelebz.com
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