Continental Stomp [Live]

Hot Club of Cowtown | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 28, 2003)
• Original Release Date: 2003
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Live
• Label: Shout Factory
• ASIN: B0000DD53S
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #148,357 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #83 in Music > Jazz > Swing Jazz > Retro Swing

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Irrepressible swingers rip it up in Austin, Texas, November 16, 2003

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N. J. H. Ratnieks "Snackers" (West Clandon, Surrey United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Continental Stomp (Audio CD)

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.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of my favorite CDs!, October 3, 2004

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music fan in California - See all my reviews

This review is from: Continental Stomp (Audio CD)

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!

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Direct to the tail-bone!, March 1, 2004

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Alastair Blakey (Federation Jupiter station) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Continental Stomp (Audio CD)

Hot Club's music bypasses all the complicated analytical bits of the brain, sneaks round the back, slides down the spine, and curls warmly round the coccyx. It's not sitting-still music, you just have to move.

Just sooo good. Listen to the samples; if they don't get you in the tail-bone, you must be dead.