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Caliente Friday, April 9, 2004 Got band, need promotion? Sign up at aznightbuzz.com a Web site dedicated to local music. Asleep at the Wheel alertly fills 'Alamo' role 11 1 HI. Think Beaches. 1 Think Brazilian! 5 4 f- 0 The Spring Brazilian Special By T.A. Badger THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN ANTONIO When he heard there was a new movie being made about the Battle of the Alamo, Asleep at the Wheel's Ray Benson figured there would surely be a CD featuring music from the film.

Then "The Alamo" co-star Billy Bob Thornton told him that there wasn't any such album in the works. "I said, 'Shoot, now there's an opportunity I can't said the lead singer for the popular Western swing group, a Grammy-winning, Austin-based septet "Asleep at the Wheel Remembers the Alamo" features a wide range of songs LOOK FOR THESE FINE ADVERTISERS IN TODAY'S NEWSPAPER REVIEW Asleep at the Wheel Remembers the Alamo Artist Asleep at the Wheel Laber. Shout Factory List price $19.98 I mnm ium KB twtt mm "niH Easter from the melancholy trumpet standard "Decuel- "The Alamo" is reviewed on Page 23. Brunch on the Wild Side Welcome spring and celebrate Easter at die Desert Museum. Menu selections include: Fresh seasonal fruit Tortillas and salsa Scrambled eggs IK i 1 if a 1 Chorizo and eggs with cheese Smoked bacon Pancakes with maple syrup Breakfast potatoes juice, coffee, and tea $20 (includes museum admission, tax and gratuity.) $10ckildrm6-12jrsold CAFE PACIFIC CATTLETOWN DOLCE VITA ELLE EMBASSY SUITES TUCSON AIRPORT FUEGO JERRY BOB'S MAMA LOUISA'S MIGUEL'S RADISSON SUITES SOLEIL 1 I Gill 883-2702 for more information Breakfast searings available from 8 to 11 a.m.

After breakfast, stroll the Museum's 21 acres of i paths and exhibits and fully savor the beauty of the Sonoran Desert. And, look for docent tours, live animal interpretations and children's activities on the grounds throughout the day! ARIZONA I SONOIA desertMmuseum lo" played by the Mexican army while it surrounded the Alamo in March 1836 to a humorous ditty about the 1982 night when rocker-turned-TV-curiosity Ozzy Os-bourne was arrested for relieving himself in front of the shrine of Texas liberty. Benson said he had a lot of material to choose from that either focused on the battle or simply mentioned the Alamo without any relevance to the pre-dawn clash between the Texians and Mexican Gen. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna's troops. "We just wanted to show how it's permeated our culture," he said.

There are 10 verses of "The Ballad of Davy Crockett," made famous in the 1950s Disney classic "Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier" that set ofifa coonskin-cap craze among young American boys. Benson said the Crockett song has 31 verses in all, and that he took out as many of them as he could without shortchanging the frontiersman, who was among those who died at the Alamo. "What the song did was tell the entire life story of Davy Crockett in detail," Benson said. "It was absolutely more detail than we needed." Benson professes special feelings for the 1950s song "Remember the Alamo," written by San Antonio native Jane Bowers and recorded by country singer Tex Ritter, the folk group The Kingston Trio and folk-pop star Donovan. The tenor of that song recounts the mythology of the Alamo's famed trio of Crockett, William Barret Travis and Jim Bowie, and includes the refrain "Hey up, Santy Anna! We're killing your soldiers below So the rest of Texas will know And remember the Alamo." Bob Armstrong of Austin, who helped Bowers adapt her tune to the guitar, said he was happy to see Asleep at the Wheel resurrect it "I think this is the best Alamo song there is," said Armstrong, a deputy Interior Department secretary during the Clinton administration and an avid amateur folk singer.

"It's a very gripping song." Two of the 13 tracks on the CD are songs featured in John Wayne's 1960 film "The Alamo," shot in Brackettville, 125 miles west of San Antonio. "The Ballad of the Alamo" was a hit for country singer Marty Robbins, while "Green Leaves of Summer" climbed the charts for The Brothers Four. "I just felt that movie itself was really one of the reasons why the Alamo has persisted in modern culture," Benson 2021 N. Kinney Rd. 883-2702 desertmuseum.org IV3 PUEBLO GALLERIA FINE IMPORTED FURNITURE HOME ACCENTS Mesqulte Furniture Mexican Folk Art Talavera Patio Decorations Ceramic Pottery Forged Iron Works Fran our Pueblo ta yaurm urn jipi nTirf-r IV CesO INI.

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