Legendary Band Asleep At The Wheel To Receive Lifetime Achievement Award

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.

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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, co-written by Ray Benson.

The Americana Honors & Awards ceremony will take place on September 17 in Nashville.

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