WATCH: Asleep At the Wheel Share Video for Title Track to Upcoming Riding High In Texas Album featuring Billy Strings on Guitar

Five decades in the fast lane and Asleep at the Wheel don't seem to be showing any signs of slowing down yet.

Since the early 1970s, Ray Benson and his ranks have been the most important force in keeping the sound of Western swing alive, freshening it up at the same time as staying true to its origins and making sure they're just as ground breaking as when Comin' Right at Ya dropped in 1973.

In their continued half-century celebration of being a Texas band, and as the legendary Western swingers prepare to be inducted into the Texas Country Music Hall of Fame on 9 August, they share the video for the title track to their forthcoming album, Riding High In Texas, featuring fiddle player Ian Stewart on vocals and a little help from special guest guitarist Billy Strings

Originally written by Peter Rowan and cut for his 1980 LP, Medicine Trail, Asleep at the Wheel tip their hats to the jaunty bluegrass original but slam the pedal to the metal, transforming it into an effortlessly cool road anthem with their signature pedal steel and fiddle licks.

"When we started going through what songs we wanted to do for this project, Ian brought this Peter Rowan tune to the table," explains Ray Benson about how the song took its place on the album. "I thought this was a great tune and I was hooked after hearing the first line, 'All the honky tonks are empty swinging doors in the wind / That ghost of country music, still singing salvation and sin.' The lyrics felt timeless and also felt like it was a great title for the record. We chose to do this tune with little bit of a 'bluegrass' style, which is not something we had really ever tackled in the bands history. Mostly because it’s not really a style that I’m best at as a guitarist, but I knew just who to call to take care of that and called Billy Strings. Ian can yodel and this was a great way to kick off the record. Also having Billy Strings play guitar on it, took it to a whole new level."

"A great song is always relevant," adds fiddle player and vocalist Ian Stewart. "I’m proud to follow the legendary trail of Peter Rowan’s 'Riding High in Texas.'When I hear ‘Ridin’ High’, it takes me back to all the places that I love in Texas and excited for all the places I have yet to discover. I see all my friends and family that have helped bring this vision to life and all I can say is 'Let’s giddy up and ride ‘em high!'"

“Let’s go riding high in Texas in my mind / Said sometimes I feel I gotta leave this crazy world behind,” Stewart sings in the song’s refrain, yodelling his way to the song's close with a little flatpicking from Strings to help whip the song up into a bluegrass frenzy.

The accompanying music video finds Stewart, the Wheel’s newest member, picking and singing on horseback through the streets of Austin, intercut with slow-motion saddle bronc riders and full band performances from Dallas’s legendary Longhorn Ballroom and Benson’s recording studio in Austin Texas; a perfect visual accompaniment to the Wheel’s new Lone Star-centric album and the song from which its title was born.

Watch the video for 'Riding High In Texas' exclusively on Holler below

Riding High In Texas is released on 22 August on Bismeaux Records and Signature Sounds Recordings