Asleep at the Wheel, the Grammy-awarding winning band
revered for sustaining Texas-based Western Swing, once again
returns to Durango showcasing the band’s most recent release, “Willie and The Wheel,” a
collection of classic western swing songs hand-picked by the late Jerry Wexler. Since the
early ‘70s, Asleep at the Wheel has been the most important force in Western swing--a mix of
big band, country and dance music popularized in the 1930s and '40s by Bob Wills and the
Texas Playboys.