Hot Club Of Cowtown at The Glee Club

Date: Sun 10th Apr
Time: 19:30

Touring and performing together for nearly two decades, America's premiere hot jazz and Western swing trio Hot Club of Cowtown release MIDNIGHT ON THE TRAIL, their ninth studio album, on March 26 2016 and to coincide with the release they hit the road in the UK for seventeen live dates.
MIDNIGHT ON THE TRAIL is a vintage mix of 12 Western swing songs and cowboy ballads hand-collected to reflect the spirit and joy of the American West. Utterly danceable, romantic and rustic, these songs truly represent the Cowtown of the Imagination, a source of inspiration for the band since it first began.
The new album features a selection of Western swing songs and traditional cowboy ballads written by Bob Wills, Johnny Mercer, Cindy Walker, Gene Autry and more. Steeped in the romance of the American west, this hand-picked collection truly reflects the spirit and joy of the Cowtown of the Imagination, a source of inspiration for the band since it first began. Hot Club of Cowtown sizzle through Mercer's I’m an Old Cowhand (From the Rio Grande) and the Bob Wills standard Take Me Back to Tulsa, and cast a spell under a starry western sky with ballads from Silver on the Sage to Gene Autry's There's an Empty Cot in the Bunkhouse Tonight. This romantic and rustic collection will make you want to roll up the rug (Oh, Mona, Cotton Eyed Joe, Next to the Soil), and slow dance to the old fashioned elegance of Cindy Walker's Blue Bonnet Lane, Billy Hill's Call of the Canyon, and yearn to meet a lost love again one day by An Old Watermill by a Waterfall.

Along with the Hot Club’s dedicated cult following worldwide--they have toured for the US State Department as Musical Ambassadors to Azerbaijan, Armenia, the Republic of Georgia and the Sultanate of Oman--certain titans of the industry have also taken notice. Bob Dylan, with whom the band toured and with whom James has toured and recorded, is a continuing inspiration both personally and professionally. The Hot Club has opened several shows for Willie Nelson, toured with Nelson and Dylan during a summer-long stadium tour and opened seven nights of Roxy Music’s sold out “For Your Pleasure” UK stadium tour in early 2011. In the UK the Hot Club of Cowtown has been featured at the Glastonbury Festival and has also been a returning guest on Later with Jools Holland, the Cambridge Folk Festival, the Radcliffe and Maconie Show, and Bob Harris Country on BBC Radio 2.

“One of the finest performances by a visiting American country act I’ve witnessed for a very long time… they pretty much lifted the roof [off of the Black Box in Belfast] a couple of months back…a pretty much perfect country trio at the very top of their game.” The Belfast Telegraph

“…Spirit, originality and skill that would surely have impressed Stephane Grappelli and Django Reinhardt back in the 1930s.” The Guardian

Winner of the 2015 Ameripolitan Awards for Western Swing Group of the Year

Elana James winner of the 2015 Ameripolitan Awards for Western Swing Female of the Year

Members of the Texas Western Swing Hall of Fame (inducted 2004)

Named Best Music Group by True West Magazine's Best of the West Awards (2012)

For more information and the latest tour news, please visit http://hotclubofcowtown.com/

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