Track Listing

1. Introduction/Diga Diga Doo - The Hot Club of Cowtown, Steve Wertheimer
2. 'Deed I Do
3. Chinatown
4. I Can't Give You Anything But Love
5. Ida Red
6. Pennies from Heaven
7. Crazy 'Cause I Love You
8. Girl I Left Behind Me
9. After You've Gone
10. Exactly Like You
11. My Window Faces the South
12. Orange Blossom Special
13. I Can't Believe You're in Love With Me [*]

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4410 in Music
• Released on: 2003-10-28
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Live

Customer Reviews

Irrepressible swingers rip it up in Austin, Texas
If you listened to a Western Swing band and didn't shake a leg or two, or worse still remained unmoved by the infectious exuberance of the music, the chances are that you were dead, but had not yet registered the fact!!

So here we have the Hot Club of Cowtown, three of the most talented young musicians to come along and distil the incendiary brew, that swing music becomes in the hands of talented and enthusiastic musicians, since time immemorial. Looking at the past, swing bands had more players than a dog has fleas- you could fill a bus with them- Bob wills did, AATW nearly do!!. To recap, there are just 3 players in this band, and they work overtime running the gamut of a whole bunch of songs, that yes, we may have heard before (perhaps except for the bonus track 14!!!-see the track listing above) but haven't heard done before with such verve and panache!!

So Elana Fremerman, she of the winning smile, seductive vocals and fiddling prowess, Whit Smith, archtop Gibson guitar genius and lovelorn vocals, Jake Erwin, bass spanker, vocals and expansive smiles, take this delightful music by the scruff of the neck, and unleash a wildcat of a performance onto the good citizens of Austin, who have the supreme good fortune to be neighbours to this exceptional band.
Production credit goes to the imperturbable super-steely Lloyd Maines- sorry mate, this band don't need a steel man.Whit's Gibson does the whole guitar thing with an ease that's remarkable for its combination of spareseness and complexity with no hint of extraneous guitar flash-just the right lick in the right place, all the time!!

Buy this record, better still if you can, see the band and smile with them.

One of my favorite CDs!
Though the style of music is quite unlike anything else in my collection and I stumbled across the CD on a fluke, I adore it! In fact, upon discovering it, I was so pleased with it that I played it for my whole family (ages 16 through 57), and it got a thumbs up from everybody. The songs have an old time traditional American feel to them and the musicianship is fantastic. (I hope to see these three perform live someday!) I love many of the songs, but I think my favorite is track 9, "After You've Gone." The best thing about the CD is that it makes me happy every time I listen to it, without fail. Highly recommended!

continental stomp
thanks to prairie home companion i was introduced to hot club of cowtown. they are positively wonderful with their fusion of jazz, country and standards. it's so great to hear young people breathing new life into "old" music! cowtown's hard driving energy is nicely balanced by their quiet finesse. may these people entertain the world for at least another hundred years.