Hot Club of Cowtown: What Makes Bob Holler | CD review

(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 king of western swing in the 1930s and 40s. Today, he's the "foremost influence and inspiration" for the Hot Club of Cowtown, a trio that started out in New York, took their name from the Hot Club of France, but have become global ambassadors for wes...

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