Asleep At The Wheel: The Wheel
Chas de Whalley, Sounds, 7 May 1977
THIS IS Asleep At the Wheel's fifth album in seven odd years. It's the one, so they hope, to transform them from a cult country band with a sizeable rock following to an across-the-boards, All Star attraction.
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