The Encyclopedia of Country Music: The Ultimate Guide to the
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One instrumental from that album, Red Wing, won them another Grammy. With only Benson remaining from the original band, the act left Liberty (renamed Capitol Nashville) in 1995. Asleep at the Wheel also celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary that year with an AUSTIN CITY LIMITS special, reuniting many former band members. In addition, the group won a Grammy, Best Country Instrumental Performance, for a song off their album The Wheel Keeps on Rollin': "Hightower," a song that features BELA FLECK, JOHNNY GIMBLE, and others.
He toured and recorded with Graves, banjo player Eddie Adcock, and mandolinist Jesse McReynolds as The Masters. Still touring and recording with Graves, Baker spends his spare time working on his farm just outside of Nashville. ") The seeds for this phenomenon were sown by the Depression-era tide of migrants from Oklahoma, Texas, and Arkansas into the agricultureand oil-rich San Joaquin Valley (as author Nicholas Dawidoff has noted, today Kern County grows more crops than all but two of America's counties and produces more oil than all but three of the world's countries).
The program's peaceful, southern setting made it easy for Griffith and his producers to work traditional music into the script. Griffith, a North Carolina native, had a deep-rooted love of folk music and was featured playing his D-18 Martin guitar in countless episodes. Professional musicians also guested on the show frequently. Fiddler CURLY Fox, Salty Holmes, and the California-based Country Boys all appeared in the "Folk Music Collector" episode. The Country Boys—consisting of CLARENCE AND ROLAND WHITE, Leroy Mac, and Roger Bush, who played four fictional brothers on the program—made a second appearance later that year.