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Giants of Texas Swing: Hot Club of Cowtown/Asleep at the Wheel

Giants of Texas Swing: Hot Club of Cowtown/Asleep at the Wheel

This three-day run at the Charles H. Morris Center brings together two of the most influential bands playing western swing today, Hot Club of Cowtown and Asleep at the Wheel. Hot Club of Cowtown’s influences have always been as much the musette music of the smoky bistros of 1930s Paris as they are the hoedowns and Western swing of the mythic American West. Praised for their “down-home melodies and exuberant improvisation” (The Times of London), the Hot Club has set up camp “at that crossroads where country meets jazz and chases the blues away” (The Independent), and “conscious always that above all else, the music is for dancing and an old-fashioned good time” (The New York Times).

Asleep at the Wheel has seen miles and miles of Texas. They got their kicks on Route 66, and in 2010, the band clicked another milestone on the odometer—their 40th anniversary. Altogether, they have won nine GRAMMY Awards since their 1970 inception. In their career, they have released more than twenty studio albums, and have charted more than twenty singles on the Billboard country charts. The band continues to introduce the western swing genre to new generations of listeners. Taking a page from Bob Wills’ book, the band has constantly toured at a national level throughout its history, with anywhere from 7 to 15 of the finest players that founder Ray Benson could talk into jumping on the bus to play a string of dates. The alumni roster is over 80+ members, and includes an impressive list of musicians who have gone on to perform with artists such as Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Lyle Lovett and many more.

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