Since joining The Wheel, Sanger has travelled over a million miles on the band bus and has flown all over the globe playing the band's strange brew of country, swing and boogie-woogie. He has recorded eight albums with the group, which have received four Grammys, five additional Grammy nominations, two C.M.A. Award nominations and an Academy of Country Music Award nomination. He has also appeared on numerous television shows, including The Tonight Show, Austin City Limits, New Country, Music City Tonight, Willie Nelson's C.B.S. Special and a made for television movie starring Dollie Parton, titled Wild Texas Wind.
Recording credits also include such computer games as Seventh Guest, Eleventh Hour, NASCAR, Putt Putt Saves the Zoo and Freddie Fish and commercials for McDonald's, Budweiser, Pepsi, Coors, Don't Mess With Texas and Levi's. Sanger has been back with Asleep at the Wheel since January 1995 and appears on their newest release, The Very Best of Asleep at the Wheel" on Relentless Records. Read what the Austin Chronicle is saying about David Sanger! All
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David
Sanger is a five-time Grammy Award winning drummer, a songwriter, engineer,
producer and record mogul from Austin, Texas. Currently doing the drumming
chores for the western swing group Asleep at the Wheel, his career has
taken him from the smallest honky-tonks to performing for audiences
of 80,000 in territories as familiar as Austin to lands as distant as
Japan, Brazil and Czechoslovakia.
A
two year hiatus from The Wheel resulted in Dave's building a home studio
and the start of his own record label, Lazy S.O.B. Recordings, which
released its first album in July of 1995. These years also included
many recording projects in Austin, including