Leon Rausch has been played on NTS shows including Country Hayride, with Deep In The Heart Of Texas first played on 19 June 2016.

Leon Rausch (Edgar Leon Rausch, Billings, Missouri, October 2, 1927 – May 14, 2019) was an American western swing, country singer, known as "the voice" of Bob Wills & his Texas Playboys.

Rausch was lead vocalist from 1958 until the early 60s when he created his own band "The New Texas Playboys". In 1973, Wills asked Rausch to rejoin the Texas Playboys to record his final album "For the Last Time".

After Wills died in 1975, Rausch and the original Texas Playboys…