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Hot Club of Cowtown - Ghost Train (2002)

Label Sony-Hightone
Genre Gypsy Swing Country Jazz
Release DateSep 17, 2002
Format Mp3 320 Kbps
Size 8.08 Mo 97.5 Mo
Time 42:21

Smoky Parisian bistros and steamy eight-to-the-bar rhythms, with an occasional two-step toward Texas roadhouse swing, continue to inspire AustinпїЅs archival threesome on Ghost Train. The band covers a few old tunes, but the best performances crop up on their own songs and particularly the ones fashioned with Art Deco affectation. These dominate the first part of the album, most persuasively on пїЅSleep,пїЅ deftly written and performed in fairly authentic gypsy style, and пїЅHome,пїЅ which features a disarming, unaffected vocal by Elana Fremerman over a sly and slippery melody line. Hot Club of CowtownпїЅs relatively routine performance of пїЅYou Took Advantage of MeпїЅ leads to wilder Western territory; here, aside from FremermanпїЅs searing fiddle throughout пїЅCherokee Shuffle,пїЅ their reversion to rawboned cowboy rusticity leaves an anti-climactic aftertaste. Paradoxically, these Texans feel more at home when their minds and their music are thousands of miles away. ~ Robert L. Doerschuk

Recorded at Rootball Studio, Austin, Texas between April 29 and May 24, 2002.

Western swing revivalists Hot Club of Cowtown formed in San Diego, CA in 1996; originally a duo pairing singer/violinist Elana Fremerman and singer/guitarist Whit Smith, a subsequent move to Austin, TX made room for the addition of bassist Billy Horton. Signing to Hightone, the trio issued its debut album, SwinginпїЅ Stampede!, in the fall of 1998; the follow-up, Tall Tales, appeared a year later. New bassist Matt Weiner joined Smith and Fremerman for 2000пїЅs DevпїЅlish Mary. Ghost Train came two years later in 2002, and it showed the group focusing more on original material and cutting back on the amount of covers. Continental Stomp followed in 2003, with Wishful Thinking arriving in 2009, and in 2011, the Hot Club finally surrendered to the obvious and released a tribute to Bob Wills, What Makes Bob Holler (the album was actually released in November of 2010 in the U.K.).

Tracks
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01 Sleep Smith, Stuckey 3:07
02 Forget-Me-Nots Fremerman 3:20
03 Home Fremerman 3:10
04 It Stops with Me Smith 4:24
05 Secret of Mine Fremerman 2:53
06 Paradise With You Smith, Stuckey 5:55
07 Fuli Tschai (пїЅBad GirlпїЅ) Traditional 3:00
08 You Took Advantage of Me Hart, Rodgers 3:24
09 Before You Fremerman 4:18
10 Cherokee Shuffle Traditional 2:20
11 Chip Away the Stone Supa 3:17
12 Pray for the Lights to Go Out 3:27

Recording Time 42 minutes
Personnel Whit Smith - vocals, guitar
Jake Erwin - vocals, upright bass
Elana Fremerman - vocals, violin
John Erwin - vocals, upright bass

Also: Joe Kerr piano

Personnel: Whit Smith (vocals, guitar); Elana Fremerman (vocals, violin); John Erwin (vocals, upright bass).

Audio Mixer: Gurf Morlix.

Recording information: Rootball Studio, Austin, TX (04/29/2002-05/24/2002).

Audio Mixer: Gurf Morlix.

Recording information: Rootball Studio, Austin, TX (04/29/2002-05/24/2002).

Photographers: Marilyn Szabo; Jim McGuire ; George Brainard.

Arranger: The Hot Club of Cowtown.

The Hot Club Of Cowtown: Whit Smith (vocals, guitar); Elana Fremerman (vocals, violin); Jake Erwin (vocals, upright bass).

Additional personnel: Joe Kerr (piano).

Mojo (Publisher) (4/03, p.108) - 3 stars out of 5 - пїЅ...Plenty of feelgood, foot-tapping cheerпїЅпїЅ