March 19, 2010
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The Hot Club of Cowtown
Swing revivalists at the Ark Monday
posted 9/25/2009
The Hot Club of Cowtown first came to Ann Arbor from their home base of Austin in 1998. As the name suggests, the trio (fiddle, guitar, and bass) combined gypsy jazz with the 1930s Texas country-jazz fusion now known as Western swing, and they were fabulous. There've been swing revivalists of various kinds who've equaled them technically, but few in whose hands
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