Hot Club of Cowtown at World Cafe Live

"The interplay is as sleek as ever." --The Times (London)

"The hot jazz is what Hot Club do best, and this is a staggering return to form for the band I once said I could listen to forever. That still stands." Country Music People

You'd think a band from Austin, Texas with the word "Cowtown" in its name spends its time off from touring herding cattle at a West Texas ranch or maybe in Nashville writing songs about whiskey and loose women. Not the HOT CLUB OF COWTOWN. "We recently took a band vacation to the Gypsy Festival at St. Maries de la Mer in the South of France," says the band's fiddler and vocalist, Elana James...

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"The interplay is as sleek as ever." --The Times (London)

"The hot jazz is what Hot Club do best, and this is a staggering return to form for the band I once said I could listen to forever. That still stands." Country Music People

You'd think a band from Austin, Texas with the word "Cowtown" in its name spends its time off from touring herding cattle at a West Texas ranch or maybe in Nashville writing songs about whiskey and loose women. Not the HOT CLUB OF COWTOWN. "We recently took a band vacation to the Gypsy Festival at St. Maries de la Mer in the South of France," says the band's fiddler and vocalist, Elana James. Whit Smith, Hot Club's guitar player and vocalist, is a regular at the prestigious Djangofest Northwest in Whidbey, Island, Washington, and bass player Jake Erwin has the Hungarian folk band Csokolom in regular rotation on his home stereo.

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