Topix — Texas band Hot Club of Cowtown plays Music on Main Aug. 2. The series is releasing the full line up throughout the course of this week. COURTESY PHOTO The first announced band's for the 2018 Music on Main series includes Jamie McLean band, who pl... more info

Nialler9 — The Guinness Cork Jazz festival is fast approaching at the end of the month 28th – 31st October. The 34th edition takes place at the end of the month and among the performers are Robert Glasper, top American vibist Jason Marsalis, Sheryl... more info

Mercury News, California — Gram Parsons tribute, Wailin' Jennys and the Spinners also among recommended shows this month. more info

USA Today Music — Bobby Bland, Hot Club of Cowtown, Bill Frisell also among artists with intriguing tracks. more info

The 9513 Country Music — You’d think that Hot Club of Cowtown would have recorded a Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys tribute album earlier in their twelve-year history, considering that they named their band in honor of Wills (and gypsy jazz pioneer Django Reinhardt’s Hot ... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — This long-running Austin, Texas, trio salutes Bob Wills, one if its two primary musical influences (the other being the Gypsy jazz of Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli) on this sweetly unassuming, live-in-the-studio trip through 14 numbers fro... more info

The 9513 Country Music — Add Joe Diffie to the list of country stars who have released cookbooks in recent years. Carrie Rodriguez teamed up with Romantica’s Ben Kyle for a collection of six classic country songs and two originals. The project, titled We Still Love Our Cou... more info

The 9513 Country Music — Hot Club of Cowtown plans to pay tribute to the music of Bob Wills with a new album, due out Feb. 1, titled What Makes Bob Holler. The Washington Post‘s Chris Richards profiled Merle Haggard. (via CMT) Elizabeth Cook, Taylor Swift, and Jamey Johnso... more info

Guardian Music — (Proper Records)Bob Wills was one of the great innovators of American popular music, a fiddle player and bandleader from Texas who mixed his country music roots with anything from jazz and blues to sentimental ballads, and became the undisputed kin... more info

Guardian Music — (Proper)The Hot Club have always had one foot in the gypsy jazz of Django Reinhardt, the other in the western swing of 40s Texas. Here, the New York trio offer a sweet tribute to the latter, specifically to swing king Bob Wills. Compared with Willie ... more info