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[MUSIC REVIEW] ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL AT THE MAHAIWE
11.12.07
MAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
Great Barrington, Mass.
ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL
Sunday, November 11, 2007
review by SETH ROGOVOY, editor-in-chief and critic-at-large, BERKSHIRE LIVING Magazine
(Great Barrington, Mass., November 12, 2007) -- Asleep at the Wheel performed its unique brand of western swing at the Mahaiwe last night. Actually, what was most surprising about the group’s concert was how much it transcended the genre of Western Swing – a kind of cross between swing jazz and country music – to embrace all sorts of American roots music, including folk, blues, classic pop, jazz, bluegrass, boogie-woogie, honky-tonk, Southern rock, and rockabilly.
In addition to its own music, the group, led by founder Roy Benson, who is a kind of a cross between Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard, performed numbers by singers and songwriters as diverse as Mose Allison, Nat King Cole, Cole Porter, Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong, Willie Nelson, and the Marshall Tucker Band.
There of course was plenty of western swing, too, with a whole mini-set devoted to the genre's founder, Bob Wills.
The current incarnation of Asleep at the Wheel was both entertaining and virtuosic, and the group put on a great, old-fashioned road show the type of which we no longer see enough.
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