Asleep at the Wheel Remembers the Alamo is the 18th studio album by American country band Asleep at the Wheel. Recorded at Bismeaux Studio in Austin, Texas, it was produced by the band's frontman Ray Benson and released on November 4, 2003 by Shout! Factory. The record is a loose concept album based on the Battle of the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas in 1836, including several songs written by Paul Francis Webster and Dimitri Tiomkin for the 1960 film The Alamo. Benson was inspired to record an album based on the Battle of Alamo after learning that there was to be no soundtrack produced for the upcoming film The Alamo (2004). The band recorded several songs based on the event, and inspired by the state of Texas generally, including one original composition based on Ozzy Osbourne's infamous visit to the Alamo cenotaph in 1982. Remembers the Alamo was the band's last album to feature guitarist Jim Murphy and fiddler Haydn Vitera. Background Asked by Lone Star magazine about the link between Asleep at the Wheel Remembers the Alamo and the 2004 film The Alamo, Asleep at the Wheel frontman Ray Benson explained that "the movie was the whole idea. A friend of mine from L.A. [actor Billy Bob Thornton, who stars in the film] said "They're not doing a soundtrack record" ... you'd think with an Alamo movie, some prominent Texas artists might be used, but they didn't ever call anybody up. So we thought, well, if they're not going to do it, we will! Because there's such great music involved. And I knew all the songs." All the songs recorded for the album were linked with the Battle of the Alamo or Texas in some way, including songs from the original 1960 film The Alamo, popular compositions about the state, and traditional pieces dating from the time of the Battle. Remembers the Alamo includes one original composition, "Don't Go There", which was written by Benson and the band's drummer David Sanger about the infamous event in 1982 in which heavy metal singer Ozzy Osbourne was arrested for urinating on a memorial for the Battle of the Alamo in San Antonio. Benson, who has described it as "the pièce de résistance" of the record, recalled that "We were doing the album and said, "We've got to do a song about Ozzy." So David went home and thought up the