Asleep At The Wheel

This is your wakeup call. Asleep at the Wheel is a compilation of very real, relevant, and heart felt stories that are guaranteed to give you the tools and formula you need to take back control of your life.

Asleep at the Wheel will jolt you, trouble you, and trample your senses and sensibilities from start to finish. With the Pentagon and World Trade Center tragedies as horrible reminders, John R. Hanny describes the evil forces that plague the United States today. He then dares to take the next frightening steps that fear prevents most readers to even think about.Corrupt political power, greed, and religious fanaticism are aligned against the virtuous honor and unswerving allegiance to respect the dignity of all humankind. This is a consuming tale that clearly distinguishes the good guys from the bad N for the most part.Hanny's prescient insights about worldwide terrorism are unnerving in both scope and intensity, but his tale is bolstered by hope, determination, and resolve. After being frightened by extraordinarily heinous events and lifted by heroic deeds, the reader will not easily forget the emotional maelstrom that is Asleep at the Wheel.

A six-foot-seven-inch Jewish hippie from Philadelphia starts a Western swing band in 1970, when country fans hate hippies and Western swing. It sounds like a joke but—more than forty years, twenty-five albums, and nine Grammy Awards later—Asleep at the Wheel is still drawing crowds around the world. The roster of musicians who’ve shared a stage with the Wheel is a who’s who of American popular music—Van Morrison, Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, George Strait, Vince Gill, Lyle Lovett, and so many more. And the bandleader who’s brought them all together is the hippie that claimed Bob Wills’s boots: Ray Benson. In this hugely entertaining memoir, Benson looks back over his life and wild ride with Asleep at the Wheel from the band’s beginning in Paw Paw, West Virginia, through its many years as a Texas institution. He vividly recalls spending decades in a touring band, with all the inevitable ups and downs and changes in personnel, and describes the making of classic albums such as Willie and the Wheel and Tribute to the Music of Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys. The ultimate music industry insider, Benson explains better than anyone else how the Wheel got rock hipsters and die-hard country fans to love groovy new-old Western swing. Decades later, they still do.

From the dark imagination of Tee Morris, author of Sweet Embrace, comes a short story that tests the boundaries of The Real. Patrick Martin, a weary commuter, embarks on his routine drive home after a grueling day. Little does he know that this ordinary night will unravel the darkest recesses of his mind. With the road stretching ahead, Patrick's thoughts spiral. As the lines between reality and nightmare blur he is transported to a place no one wants to be.

Did you know that almost half the people in the United States admit to falling asleep behind the wheel of a vehicle at some time during their life? In this book, Craig Forest falls asleep while driving back to his home in Fernandina Beach after a weekend of fishing and fun in Cedar Key with his best friend, who dies as a result of the incident. Craig's life savings and financial security are in jeopardy. His insurance company doesn't think the claim is worth the amount of money demanded by the widow of his best friend. What happens when Craig, the insured, wants to settle the case but his insurance company refuses to do so for the amount demanded? A jury of six strangers must decide what is just and fair and what a life is worth.

The young man, bored with college, joins the Marine Corps. The couple write to each other while he is in boot camp, and when he finishes boot camp he finds, upon his arrival back home for a short leave, that he has a serious romance on his hands, a romance hes not sure he wants. The young woman seems deeply in love. The young man, among his many faults, listens to too much popular music. "My generation is famous for loving its music too much, and I plead guilty as any", ; he says about himself in the book. Did the baby boom generation love its music too much? Read "Asleep at the WheeL"; and decide for yourself.

Everyone in the world knows DMV means poor service. Now you can get an inside look at what creates that culture of: Its not my money, I dont care. Mariam, The Mighty, immigrated to America leaving behind a culture of shortage and conservation vs the shock of abundance and waste. Her Mom did the unthinkable, she recycled matches. yes matches. Stop the waste is the message from The Author. She describes a collection of hilarious situations where the DMV has spent money on things which are unnecessary or extravagant like a $60,000 crossing guard to help adult DMV Employees cross between 2 connected buildings! DMVs janitor vs the donkey cart in Egypt! DMV State of The Art Scanners and Egyptian Ancient Technology, what do they have in common?!! The Killer KeyboardThe Hall of MirrorsCommitting Hairy ChairyBumper ChairsTrash Talking...It is snowing at DMV Eatin Your Taxes! WHOS HUNGRY!!!! Best potlucks ever at the DMV!!! and more stories DMV doesnt want you to know. The book will illustrate the problems while you laugh your . Off! This is a book of ALL TRUE stories which sheds light on the waste in a comical way. Sometimes, it only takes a match in the dark to spark a revolution.

Includes essays tracing Country's growth from hand-me-down folk to a major American industry; concise biographies; critical album reviews, from the earliest commercial recordings of the 1920s through the mulitplatinum artists of today; and vintage album jackets and previously unpublished photographs.