These nostalgic country songs will never get old even if they didn't reach the top of the country charts upon release.
The beer halls were too noisy for acoustic instruments and too small for the big dance bands that played Western swing. The music featured songs that dealt openly with cheating and drinking ...
More than 40 years after its release, the Western swing-inspired rodeo song ... it didn’t reach the top of the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Instead, it peaked at No. 4, giving Strait ...
In 1970, singer and guitarist Ray Benson formed Western swing band Asleep at the Wheel while farmsitting in the tiny town of Paw Paw, West Virginia – a stretch, both physically and conceptually ...