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Saving the halls of swing
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fbgstandard01, on March 15, 2017
Saving the halls of swing

Asleep at the Wheel’s Ray Benson calls them the “Carnegie Halls of western swing.” But if you are old enough to have waltzed across Texas, you know them as dance halls. When I wrote about these two-stepping temples in 2013, Stephen Dean of Texas Dancehall Preservation, Inc., was working to chronicle

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