AUSTIN, TEXAS Ray Benson

Cowboys & Indians: Congratulations on the 50th anniversary of Asleep at the Wheel. But we understand you had a health scare that temporarily rained on your parade

Ray Benson: Well, yeah. I was an early adopter of the COVID.

C&I: Always have to be fashionable, huh?

[Laughs.] I’m always the first in line. Yeah, we’d been traveling for a few weeks, and I guess that’s how I got it. And I had a couple of bad weeks — but nothing like a lot of people have