Its A Good Day CD

MUSIC

COUNTRY

Song Listing

Disc 1

Song Title

1. It's a Good Day ~ Asleep at the Wheel

2. Truck Driver's Blues ~ Asleep at the Wheel

3. Alright, Okay, You Win - (featuring Willie Nelson) ~ Asleep at the Wheel

4. Rosetta ~ Asleep at the Wheel

5. Basin Street Blues ~ Asleep at the Wheel

6. I Didn't Realize ~ Asleep at the Wheel

7. Mean Woman With the Green Eyes ~ Asleep at the Wheel

8. Sugar Moon ~ Asleep at the Wheel

9. Cotton Patch Blues ~ Asleep at the Wheel

10. Snap Your Fingers ~ Asleep at the Wheel

11. Get You Kicks (On Route 66) - (featuring Ray Benson) ~ Asleep at the Wheel

12. Osage Stomp - (featuring Eddie Rivers/Dan Walton/Ray Benson/Jonathan Doyle) ~ Asleep at the Wheel

Album Notes and Credits

Notes & Personnel Info
	Audio Mixers: Sam "Lightning" Seifert; Ray Benson.
	Liner Note Author: Ray Benson.
	Recording information: Bismeaux Studio, Austin, TX.
	One of Ray Benson's great strengths as bandleader of Western swing stalwarts Asleep at the Wheel is his willingness to cede the spotlight to others when appropriate; his band's previous album with Willie Nelson was a match made in Texas music heaven, in part for that reason, and this is another one. Here Benson and the band are backing up singer Leon Rausch, former vocalist for Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys; Rausch and Benson trade turns on lead vocals with the very fine Elizabeth McQueen, and perform such standard fare as "Basin Street Blues" and the Wills composition "Osage Stomp," along with such nicely chosen adaptations as the Peggy Lee song "It's a Good Day" and "Truck Driver's Blues" (on which Willie Nelson makes a surprise appearance alongside Rausch). Asleep at the Wheel is a professional band in absolutely the best sense of the word: their ensemble sense is watertight but their swing is confident and relaxed; their arrangements are period-appropriate but never stodgy; and they always sound like they're having the time of their lives. Even material as tired as "Get Your Kicks (On Route 66)," which has become the band's theme song, sounds like a breath of fresh air when this band is playing and singing it. But Rausch himself is the centerpiece on this album, and he makes the most of it: his voice may have aged some in the decades since he sang with Wills, but it's lost none of its elegantly swinging expressiveness and the band knows how to showcase it perfectly. ~ Rick Anderson
Producer: Ray Benson
Engineer: Sam "Lightning" Seifert
Musical Guests
	Ray Benson
	Willie Nelson
	Elizabeth McQueen
	Eddie Rivers
	Dan Walton
	Jonathan Doyle

Compilation Appearances

	Strait Out Of The Box
	Ultimate Country Super Hits
	Truck Stop Jukebox / Various
	35 Years Of Stony Plain
	Hit The Road:route 66
	Duets
	30 Years Of Stony(2cd/dvd(w/ Bonus DVD)

Associated Artists and Works

	Nelson, Willie
	Willie & The Wheel [Digipak] ~ Nelson, Willie
	Willie Nelson & Asleep At The Wheel (Deluxe Editio ~ Nelson, Willie
	It's A Good Day [Digipak] ~ Rausch, Leon
	It's A Good Day ~ Rausch, Leon
	Riders In The Sky
	Riders in the Sky

Technical Info

	Release Date : 07/20/2010
	Original Release Date : 2010
	Catalog ID : BR9600
	Label : Bismeaux Productions
	Number of Discs : 1
	Studio/Live : Studio
	SPAR Code : n/a

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It's A Good Day (2010)

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Associated Artists and Works

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