A Little Piece

2014 release from the Country veteran. For his first solo album in more than a decade, Asleep At The Wheel main man Ray Benson went into the project with a simple mission: To break out from his band, and to try out a few different things. And he had just the right material for it, a highly personal collection of songs, which makes A Little Piece very possibly the most personal album of Ray's 45-year career. And it has as tasteful a guest list as you'd expect, including Willie Nelson as duet partner on one track. Members of Austin newgrass band Milkdrive and Latino rockers Del Castillo also show up in cameo roles. Ray co-produced the album himself, aided and abetted by his son Sam Lightning Seifert and Lloyd Maines, the Lubbock legend whose credits include Joe Ely, Robert Earl Keen and (of course) Dixie Chicks. Ray, Sam and Lloyd also played the guitars.