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The Texas Playboys, Asleep at the Wheel: Panther Hall, Fort Worth, Texas

John Morthland, Rolling Stone, 7 April 1977

"THIS ONE goes back to 1936," Leon McAuliffe grinned. "Bob told me, 'Leon, just hit a chord and then I'll say something,' and so I did and he did." And then McAuliffe hit that one keening chord, Leon Rausch let out an "ah-ha!" and the last living members of Bob Wills' Texas Playboys leaped into 'Steel Guitar Rag'.

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