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The Hot Club of Cowtown, swing revivalist band

The Hot Club of Cowtown

Swing revivalists at the Ark Monday

by James M. Manheim

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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