Asleep At The Wheel frontman Ray Benson is so closely associated with Austin that there is a cardboard cutout of him at an airport bar where people stop and take pictures. A “blessed caretaker” of western swing and honky-tonk country, Benson has lived in Austin for nearly 50 years.

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