Logjam Presents

Asleep At The Wheel

Calvin and the Coal Cars

Rialto

Bozeman, MT
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Logjam Presents is pleased to welcome Asleep At The Wheel live in concert at the Rialto on August 01, 2019. Tickets go on sale Friday, June 21st at 10AM online or by phone at 1 (800) 514-3849. All tickets are general admission standing room only. All ages welcome. Additional ticketing and venue information can be found here. About Asleep… Continue Reading

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7:00PM (door) 8:00PM (show)
$35 (Adv.) + applicable fees
All Ages
Tickets

Logjam Presents is pleased to welcome Asleep At The Wheel live in concert at the Rialto on August 01, 2019.

Tickets go on sale Friday, June 21st at 10AM online or by phone at 1 (800) 514-3849. All tickets are general admission standing room only. All ages welcome.

Additional ticketing and venue information can be found here.

About Asleep At The Wheel

“New Routes” the brand-new album by Asleep At the Wheel, marks both a new path forward and a nod to the freewheeling roots (get it?) of one of Texas’ most beloved bands. After a decade of collaborating on record with friends, including Willie Nelson on 2009’s Grammy Nominated “Willie and the Wheel” and in 2015 their critically acclaimed and Grammy winning tribute to the groundbreaking music of Western Swing pioneer Bob Wills, titled “Still the King”. With “New Routes” the Wheel has released their first album of new material in over a decade!

With a fresh new lineup, a bracing blend of original songs and vibrant cover material and some unanticipated new musical tangents, Asleep At the Wheel demonstrates convincingly it’s more relevant, enjoyable and musically nimble than any time in its 49 year history!

The 6’7” Benson has been the one constant in Asleep At the Wheel since the band’s founding in 1970 in Paw Paw, West Virginia. Since that time, more than 100 musicians have passed through the Wheel, but Benson remains the front man and the keeper of the vision, in the process racking up more than 25 albums, ten Grammy awards and literally millions of miles on the road.

“It took me 60 years, but I’m doing what I’m meant to do—singing and playing and writing better than I ever have. A bandleader is just someone who gathers people around them to play the best music they can play. I just try and make the best decisions possible and kick some ass every night onstage.”

Katie Shore follows in the long tradition of strong and talented female performers who have been an integral part of the band’s identity for decades. Shore says. “I always wanted to be in Asleep At the Wheel,” she said. “If you grew up in Fort Worth and played the fiddle, it was impossible not to know who the Wheel was. I feel part of a legacy, for sure.”

“This was a chance to re-invent the Wheel,” said Benson. “These are creative folks who can add stuff. I’m just the bandleader, so if I don’t have contributions from everybody, then the Wheel doesn’t roll.”

New Routes, he said, “is a pure distillation of where the band is right now,” Benson declared. “It gives me the palette that I’ve always wanted,” he added. “To be in Asleep at the Wheel you gotta be able to play Bob Wills, Country music, Louis Jordan, Count Basie etc… Every night I’m excited to play music with this lineup”

Calvin and the Coal Cars

Telecasters, pedal steel, acoustic guitars, and a straight forward pocket rhythm section are the first things that come to mind when someone mentions “real Country Music”. And these are the sounds that Calvin and the Coal Cars have in spades.

Add to that Lee Calvin’s lyrics of small town living, lost love, heartbreak, and nightlife, and you’ve got one of the best original country bands the Rocky Mountains have seen in decades!

Calvin and the Coal Cars were first assembled to showcase the songwriting of Lee Calvin in the fall of 2016. Since then, Lee spent a year writing (and rewriting) his country tunes until the band was reformed with new members in the spring of 2018. The current lineup consists of Robert James and Matt Windmueller on drums and bass, Dan Upton on lead telecaster, Brian Wetzstein on pedal steel guitar, and Lee Calvin on vocals and acoustic guitar.

The band pulls from their many influences, including Merle Haggard, Waylon Jennings, Dwight Yoakam, Marty Stuart, Whitey Morgan and the 78’s, John Prine, Pink Floyd, and too many others to list. With over 100 years of combined music experience, the varied backgrounds of the members of Calvin and the Coal Cars provide a tight sound and unique approach from each instrument.
In 2018, after less than a year together, CCC took home third place in both the Best Country Band and Best Songwriter at the Magic City Music Awards in Billings, Montana.

Calvin and the Coal Cars are set to release a live bootleg album, and are currently planning their first studio album – Calvin and the Coal Cars, The Greatest Hits, Vol 1.