New Routes

New Routes is the 25th studio album by American country band Asleep at the Wheel. Recorded at Bismeaux Studios and Arlyn Studios in Austin, Texas, it was produced by the band's frontman Ray Benson with manager and engineer Sam Seifert, and released on September 14, 2018, by Benson's own Bismeaux Productions with Thirty Tigers. It is the group's first album to feature original material since 2007's Reinventing the Wheel. Between 2007 and 2016, Asleep at the Wheel issued two Christmas albums, two collaborations and their third Bob Wills tribute, Still the King. For their first album of original material in over ten years, the group recorded songs written by both lead vocalists, Ray Benson and Katie Shore, alongside cover versions of tracks by Johnny Cash, Guy Clark, Paolo Nutini and others. New Routes was supported by the release of "Jack I'm Mellow", "Seven Nights to Rock" and "Willie Got There First" as singles in 2018. The album was the band's first release to feature bassist Josh Hoag and their last to include steel guitarist Eddie Rivers and saxophonist Jay Reynolds, both of whom left the year after its release. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Rou...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)