Ray Benson, leader of the Western swing band Asleep at the Wheel, stepped away from his usual emphasis on Texas dancehall rhythms on the poignant “Sundown,” a song so new that Benson had to refer to a lyric sheet during his Songwriter Session at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum on October 6. The song came to Benson after his recovery from the coronavirus, which the sixty-nine-year-old bandleader contracted last March. Benson fully recovered from the illness after battling extreme fatigu

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