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Asleep at the Wheel discography
Asleep at the Wheel performing in 2019.
Studio albums26
Live albums16
Compilation albums21
Video albums4
Music videos19
EPs7
Singles40

The discography of Asleep at the Wheel (AATW), an American country band, consists of 26 studio albums (including collaborations and tribute albums), 16 live albums, 21 compilation albums, seven extended plays (EPs), 40 singles, four video albums and 19 music videos.

Formed in 1970, AATW released its debut album Comin' Right at Ya on United Artists Records in 1973, followed by a self-titled second album the following year on Epic. [1] After signing with Capitol in 1975, the band issued its first charting album Texas Gold, which reached number 136 on the US Billboard 200 and number 7 on the Top Country Albums chart. [2] [3] Lead single " The Letter That Johnny Walker Read" reached the Hot Country Songs top ten. [4] The following three releases, Wheelin' and Dealin' (1976), The Wheel (1977) and Collision Course (1978) all reached the top 50 of the Country Albums chart, [5] [6] [7] and the first two registered on the Billboard 200. [8] [9] After issuing its first live album Served Live in 1979, the group signed with MCA Records and released Framed, which reached number 191 on the Billboard 200. [10]

Between 1981 and 1985, AATW worked without a record label, before issuing Pasture Prime on Demon and Stony Plain Records. [11] [12] The band signed with Epic again and released 10 and Western Standard Time in 1987 and 1988, both of which reached the Billboard Top Country Albums chart top 40. [13] [14] " House of Blue Lights", the lead single from 10, was the band's second to reach the Hot Country Singles top ten, peaking at number 17. [15] After two albums on Arista, the group released Tribute to the Music of Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys in 1993, which reached number 159 on the Billboard 200 and number 35 on the country chart. [16] [17] 1995's The Wheel Keeps on Rollin' reached number 3 on the Canadian country chart. [18] 1997's Merry Texas Christmas, Y'all reached number 75 on the US country chart. [19]

AATW reached number 24 on the Billboard Country Albums chart with Ride with Bob, a second Bob Wills tribute, in 1999. [20] For the next ten years, the band released albums on various independent record labels, none of which registered on the charts. They returned to the charts in 2009 with Willie and the Wheel, a collaboration with Willie Nelson, which was the band's first release to reach the top 100 of the Billboard 200. [21] The next year, the band collaborated with Leon Rausch on It's a Good Day, which reached number 57 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart. [22] A third tribute album, Still the King, reached number 11 on the US country chart in 2015. [23]

Albums

Studio albums

List of studio albums, with selected chart positions
Title Album details Peak chart positions
US US
Coun.
US
Heat.
US
Indie
CAN
Coun.
Comin' Right at Ya
Asleep at the Wheel
  • Released: September 1974
  • Label: Epic
  • Format: LP
Texas Gold 136
[2]
7
[3]
Wheelin' and Dealin'
  • Released: July 1976
  • Label: Capitol
  • Formats: LP, CS, 8-track
179
[8]
19
[5]
The Wheel
  • Released: March 14, 1977
  • Label: Capitol
  • Formats: LP, CS, 8-track
162
[9]
31
[6]
Collision Course
  • Released: June 1978
  • Label: Capitol
  • Formats: LP, CS, 8-track
[A] 46
[7]
19
[25]
Framed
  • Released: August 5, 1980
  • Label: MCA
  • Formats: LP, CS
191
[10]
Pasture Prime
(released as Asleep at the Wheel in the US)
10
  • Released: March 1987
  • Label: Epic
  • Formats: CD, LP, CS
16
[13]
Western Standard Time
  • Released: August 2, 1988
  • Label: Epic
  • Formats: CD, LP, CS
34
[14]
Keepin' Me Up Nights
  • Released: July 1990
  • Label: Arista
  • Formats: CD, LP, CS
73
[26]
Tribute to the Music of Bob Wills and
the Texas Playboys
  • Released: October 25, 1993
  • Label: Liberty
  • Formats: CD, CS
159
[16]
35
[17]
17
[27]
The Wheel Keeps on Rollin'
  • Released: November 21, 1995
  • Label: Capitol
  • Format: CD
3
[18]
Merry Texas Christmas, Y'all
  • Released: September 30, 1997
  • Label: High Street
  • Format: CD
75
[19]
Ride with Bob: A Tribute to Bob Wills
and the Texas Playboys
24
[20]
15
[28]
The Very Best of Asleep at the Wheel
Hang Up My Spurs
Asleep at the Wheel Remembers
the Alamo
Santa Loves to Boogie
  • Released: November 7, 2006
  • Label: Bismeaux
  • Format: CD
Reinventing the Wheel
  • Released: November 14, 2006
  • Label: Bismeaux
  • Format: CD
Willie and the Wheel
(with Willie Nelson)
  • Released: February 3, 2009
  • Label: Bismeaux
  • Formats: CD, LP
90
[21]
13
[29]
6
[30]
It's a Good Day
(with Leon Rausch)
  • Released: July 20, 2010
  • Label: Bismeaux
  • Format: CD
57
[22]
Still the King: Celebrating the Music
of Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
  • Released: March 3, 2015
  • Label: Bismeaux
  • Formats: CD, LP, DL
187
[31]
11
[23]
14
[32]
Lone Star Christmas Night
  • Released: November 18, 2016
  • Label: Home
  • Formats: CD, DL
New Routes
  • Released: September 14, 2018
  • Label: Bismeaux
  • Formats: CD, LP, DL
Half a Hundred Years
  • Released: October 1, 2021
  • Label: Home Records
  • Formats: CD, LP, DL
"—" denotes a release that did not chart or was not issued in that region.

Live albums

List of live albums
Title Album details
Served Live
  • Released: June 11, 1979
  • Label: Capitol
  • Formats: LP, CS
Greatest Hits: Live & Kickin'
  • Released: March 24, 1992
  • Label: Arista
  • Formats: CD, CS
Back to the Future Now: Live at
Arizona Charlie's, Las Vegas
  • Released: May 20, 1997
  • Label: Lucky Dog
  • Format: HDCD
Wide Awake! Live in Oklahoma
  • Released: June 16, 2003
  • Label: Delta Deluxe
  • Format: 2CD
Live at Billy Bob's Texas
  • Released: October 14, 2003
  • Label: Smith
  • Format: HDCD
Live at Ebbets Field 1973
  • Released: 2004
  • Label: Bismeaux
  • Format: CD
The Best of Asleep at the Wheel
on the Road
(released as Kings of the
Texas Swing
in the US)
  • Released: October 24, 2006
  • Label: Madacy
  • Format: CD+ DVD
Live from Austin, TX
(featuring the Texas Playboys)
  • Released: November 14, 2006
  • Label: New West
  • Format: CD
Asleep at the Wheel with the Fort
Worth Symphony Orchestra

(with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra)
  • Released: November 5, 2007
  • Label: none (self-released)
  • Format: CD
Asleep at the Wheel Live
  • Released: July 14, 2008
  • Label: One Media
  • Formats: CD, DL
Best in Live
  • Released: September 11, 2012
  • Label: Rendez-Vous
  • Format: DL
Live in America: Get Your Kicks on
Route 66
  • Released: October 16, 2012
  • Label: Dance Plant
  • Format: DL
Live: Stateside
  • Released: July 22, 2013
  • Label: RMP
  • Format: DL
Havin' a Party Live!
  • Released: April 1, 2014
  • Label: Goldenlane
  • Formats: CD, LP, DL
Asleep at the Wheel Forever
  • Released: March 23, 2017
  • Label: Red Bus
  • Format: DL
Highlights of Asleep at the Wheel
  • Released: April 9, 2017
  • Label: Weishaupt
  • Format: DL

Compilations

List of compilation albums
Title Albums details
Fathers and Sons
(split with Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys)
  • Released: 1974
  • Label: Epic
  • Format: 2LP
Asleep at the Wheel
  • Released: 1988
  • Label: MCA
  • Format: CD
Swing Time
  • Released: February 4, 1992
  • Label: Sony Special
  • Formats: CD, CS
Route 66
  • Released: October 12, 1992
  • Label: Liberty
  • Format: CD
The Swingin' Best Of
  • Released: October 27, 1992
  • Label: Epic
  • Formats: CD, CS
The Best of Asleep at the Wheel
  • Released: 1993
  • Label: CEMA
  • Formats: CD, CS
Still Swingin'
  • Released: November 15, 1994
  • Label: Liberty
  • Format: 3CD
Super Hits
  • Released: March 23, 1999
  • Label: Arista
  • Format: CD
Back to Back
(split with Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys)
  • Released: 2000
  • Label: Sony Special
  • Format: CD
23 Country Classics
  • Released: February 6, 2001
  • Label: EMI
  • Format: CD
The Best of Asleep at the Wheel:
The Millennium Collection
  • Released: June 19, 2001
  • Label: MCA Nashville
  • Format: CD
20 Greatest Hits
  • Released: April 1, 2003
  • Label: Capitol
  • Format: CD
The Hits
  • Released: July 14, 2008
  • Label: One Media
  • Formats: CD, DL
Back to Back Live!
(split with Willie Nelson)
  • Released: February 1, 2009
  • Label: Goldenlane
  • Format: DL
The Letter That Johnny Walker Read
  • Released: December 21, 2009
  • Label: One Media
  • Formats: CD, DL
House of Blue Lights
  • Released: December 21, 2009
  • Label: One Media
  • Formats: CD, DL
Country Legend, Vol. 3
  • Released: October 21, 2011
  • Label: JUR
  • Format: DL
Miles and Miles of Texas
  • Released: April 16, 2012
  • Label: Excalibur
  • Format: DL
Hot Rod Lincoln
  • Released: January 16, 2013
  • Label: Country
  • Format: DL
Snapshot
  • Released: January 7, 2014
  • Label: Bismeaux
  • Formats: CD, LP, DL
The Collection
  • Released: February 12, 2016
  • Label: Red Bus
  • Format: DL

Extended plays

List of extended plays
Title EP details
Live in Austin
  • Released: August 5, 2008
  • Label: Bismeaux
  • Format: DL
Daytrotter Session, Aug 8 2011
  • Released: August 8, 2011
  • Label: NoiseTrade
  • Format: DL
Bob's Breakdowns
  • Released: January 28, 2015
  • Label: Black & Partners
  • Format: DL
You're from Texas
  • Released: February 14, 2015
  • Label: Black & Partners
  • Format: DL
Paste Studio, Jul 26 2018
  • Released: July 26, 2018
  • Label: NoiseTrade
  • Format: DL
Paste Studio, Feb 13 2020
  • Released: February 13, 2020
  • Label: NoiseTrade
  • Format: DL
Better Times
  • Released: May 28, 2021
  • Label: Bismeaux
  • Formats: CD, 7" vinyl, DL

Singles

List of singles, with selected chart positions, showing year released and album name
Title Year Peak positions Album
US
Coun.
CAN
Coun.
" Take Me Back to Tulsa" 1973 Comin' Right at Ya
"Drivin' Nails in My Coffin"
"You and Me Instead" 1974 Asleep at the Wheel
" Choo Choo Ch'Boogie" 69
[33]
" The Letter That Johnny Walker Read" 1975 10
[4]
32
[34]
Texas Gold
"Bump Bounce Boogie" 31
[35]
47
[36]
"Nothin' Takes the Place of You" 1976 35
[37]
30
[38]
" Route 66" 48
[39]
47
[40]
Wheelin' and Dealin'
" Miles and Miles of Texas" 38
[41]
"The Trouble with Loving Today" 1977 34
[42]
"Somebody Stole His Body" The Wheel
"My Baby Thinks She's a Train"
" Louisiana" 1978 Collision Course
"Pine Grove Blues"
"Texas Me & You" 75
[43]
"Choo Choo Ch'Boogie" (live) 1979 Served Live
"Don't Get Caught Out in the Rain" 1980 Framed
"Way Down Texas Way" 1987 39
[44]
10
" House of Blue Lights" 17
[15]
12
[45]
"Boogie Back to Texas" 53
[46]
"Blowin' Like a Bandit" 59
[47]
" Walk on By" 1988 55
[48]
73
[49]
Western Standard Time
" Hot Rod Lincoln" 65
[50]
" Chattanooga Choo Choo" 1989
"Black and White Rag" non-album single
"Keepin' Me Up Nights" 1990 54
[51]
63
[52]
Keepin' Me Up Nights
"That's the Way Love Is" 60
[53]
83
[54]
"Dance with Who Brung You" 1991 71
[55]
"(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66" (live) 1992 Greatest Hits: Live & Kickin'
" Red Wing" 1993 Tribute to the Music of Bob Wills
and the Texas Playboys
"Blues for Dixie"
(featuring Lyle Lovett)
1994
" Corine, Corina"
(featuring Brooks & Dunn)
73
[56]
" Lay Down Sally" 1995 70
[57]
The Wheel Keeps on Rollin'
" Hesitation Blues"
(with Willie Nelson)
2009 Willie and the Wheel
"Jack I'm Mellow" 2018 New Routes
"Seven Nights to Rock"
"Willie Got There First"
(featuring Seth and Scott Avett)
"Half a Hundred Years" 2021 Half a Hundred Years
"Take Me Back to Tulsa"
(featuring George Strait and Willie Nelson)
"There You Go Again"
(featuring Lyle Lovett)
"—" denotes a release that did not chart or was not issued in that region.

Other charted songs

List of songs, with selected chart positions, showing year released and album name
Title Year Chart peaks Album
US
Coun.
US
Coun.
Air.
" Roly Poly"
(featuring the Dixie Chicks)
2000 65
[58]
65
[59]
Ride with Bob: A Tribute to Bob Wills
and the Texas Playboys

Videos

Video albums

List of video albums
Title Album details
In Concert
  • Released: April 8, 2003
  • Label: in-akustik
  • Format: DVD
Live at Billy Bob's, Texas
  • Released: October 14, 2003
  • Label: Smith
  • Format: DVD
Live from Austin, TX
(with the Texas Playboys)
  • Released: November 14, 2006
  • Label: New West
  • Format: DVD
Then and Now
  • Released: February 18, 2014
  • Label: Bismeaux
  • Format: DVD

Music videos

List of music videos, showing year released and director(s) names
Title Year Director(s) Ref.
"Way Down Texas Way" 1987 unknown
"Boogie Back to Texas" Bob Small [60]
"Hot Rod Lincoln" 1988 Wayne Miller [61]
"Keepin' Me Up Nights" 1990 [62]
"Old Fashioned Love"
(featuring Suzy Bogguss)
1993 unknown
"Blues for Dixie"
(featuring Lyle Lovett)
1994
"Bring It on Down to My House" 1995
"Lay Down Sally" Mark Shuman [63]
"Boogie Back to Texas" (live) 1997 Dan Karlok [64]
"Christmas in Jail" unknown
" Cherokee Maiden" 1999
" Ain't Nobody Here but Us Chickens" 2001 Eric McDonald [65]
"Am I Right (Or Amarillo)" 2007 Dan Karlok [66]
"Hesitation Blues"
(with Willie Nelson)
2009 Zalman King [67]
"Tiger Rag" 2015 unknown
"Seven Nights to Rock" 2018
"Jack I'm Mellow"
"Better Times" 2021
"Half a Hundred Years" Aaron Seifert [68]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Collision Course did not chart on the Billboard 200, but reached number 10 on the Bubbling Under Albums chart, which serves as an extension to the main chart. [24]

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