Steel Highway

In addition to John on both pedal steel and non-pedal steel guitar, the musicians are Chuck Anderson- bass and vocals, Drew DeFour and Jim King- piano, Todd Glass and Mark Sutton-drums, Mitch Manns and Jake Reichbart- guitars, Steven Mullan- accordion and the fiddles of Dave Mosher and Mary Seelhorst. The album opens with Bill Bynum on vocal leading the Bob Wills/Leon McAuliffe hit parade with Jimmy Hall's T-U-L-S-A Straight Ahead. Bill is also the vocalist on four other western swing classics, Fred Rose's Roly Poly, Bring it on Down to My House, Take Me Back to Tulsa, along with Tommy Camfield and Diane Johnston's Miles and Miles of Texas. From Asleep at the Wheel's catalog, Jill Jack is the vocalist on two Leroy Preston compositions, I Wonder and My Baby Thinks He's a Train. Carrie Shepard and John Holk are featured on vocal on the old pop standard that became Western Swing, Old Fashioned Love and Tosha Owens brings back the vocal on Denver Darling and Vaughn Horton's Choo Choo Ch' Boogie. Kin Curran is featured on vocal on the pop standard Ain't Misbehavin. Mary Seelhorst is heard on vocal on the final track, Bobby Troup's Route 66.