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Ads by Google Related Topics swing music Swing dance Swing genre West Coast Swing Western swing East Coast Swing New Jack Swing Swing out Swing out dance move Swing Time Western countries      Swing (dance) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia It is danced to country and western music. West Coast Swing is often danced with blues and rock and roll music, as well as to smooth and cool jazz. Swing music had a revival in the late 1990s thanks to musician Brian Setzer, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, the movie Swing Kids (movie), and a number of other bands. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing_(dance)      Western Swing Downloads - Download Western Swing Music - Download Western Swing MP3s Western swing was the most eclectic form of country music and in its free-wheeling diversity, it set the stage for rock & roll. Based in tradtional string band music, western swing also incorporated traditional pop melodies, jazz improvisation, blues and folk, creating a wildly entertaining and eclectic form of American music. [+] Continue Western swing was the most eclectic form of country music and in its free-wheeling diversity, it set the stage for rock & roll. http://www.mp3.com/western-swing/genre/213/subgenre.html      WESTERN SWING The sub-genre of country music called Western Swing is where jazz, blues and mountain music met in the 1920s. Nowadays, Western Swing and its cousin Bluegrass are very much cult music and have no impact on modern country trends. As with most forms of country music, it was Jimmie Rodgers who initialised the basic ideas of what would be called Western Swing. http://www.webspawner.com/users/WesternSwingInfo      Western Swing Music Guide (Page1) - Slipcue E-Zine Western Swing is one of America's great original artforms, a mix of hillbilly stringband music and uptempo jazz. Good-timin' western swing and the local spirit of independent Texas music are alive and well, as heard in this fun album by fiddler and songwriter Bob Rohan. While honkytonk country took its cues from traditional folk ballads and a hefty dose of the blues, western swing was a more self-conscious mix of squaredancin' barn-dance music and big city jazz... http://www.slipcue.com/music/country/countrystyles/old/westernswing01.html      Swing History origins of Swing Dance Country-Western Swing: a style of Jitterbug popularized during the 1980's and danced to Country and Western music. The history of swing dates back to the 1920's, where the black community, while dancing to contemporary Jazz music, discovered the Charleston and the Lindy Hop. With the discovery of the Lindy Hop and the Jitterbug, the communities began dancing to the contemporary Jazz and Swing music as it was evolving at the time, with Benny Goodman leading the action. http://www.centralhome.com/ballroomcountry/swing.htm      Western swing's the thing - Saturday, 02/01/03 Like bluegrass, western swing places as much emphasis on instrumental prowess as on the song, so it's music that Nashville musicians have played informally more than Music Row artists have recorded it. The music blended big-band swing with Dixieland jazz and blues for a sound that was refined and down-home at the same time. Now there's interest that parallels the surge in bluegrass and old-time country and the Jumpers won a major national western swing band award that's sparked them to think beyond their two albums to an all-originals album. http://www.tennessean.com/entertainment/music/archives/03/02/28322128.shtml      John T. Wills Western Swing Page If you have never listened to western swing music before this album is great place to start, I'm sure you won't be disappointed. Tulsa World's Spot Music Awards have listed their album as one of the best local albums of the year. John T. Wills is the son of the late western swing song writer and band leader, Johnnie Lee Wills. http://members.tripod.com/%7Eamp57/JTW.html      The Western Box Turtles Swing has never been a fad with the Western Box Turtles, a dance band that admires the sound of Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys, legendary kings of Western swing. http://www.boxturtles.com      Amazon.com: Music: Daddy of Western Swing [BOX SET] Most of this is NOT western swing - most of it is early Western music or pop songs done Western style. After discovering the red hot band Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys, I was looking forward to listening to more Western swing music. With his Musical Brownies, Milton Brown was one of the first musicians to combine jazz, blues, & country music to come up with the exciting musical hybrid that was western swing. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000918PM?v=glance      Western Cowboy Swing Band - Syd Masters & The Swing Riders Both of the Swing Rider albums are available at Borders Books and Music and Natural Sound in Albuquerque, or by contacting the band at (505) 281-5221. Syd and the Swing Riders have garnered themselves the New Mexico Music Industry’s “Best Country Song of the Year” for the Syd Masters original, “Out in the Country.” The boys have also roped a Western Music Association worldwide nomination for singing and yodeling on the “Live and Swingin!” CD. The band consists of Syd Masters on guitar and vocals, Uncle Bob on lead guitar, banjo, mandolin, harmonica and vocals and Slim J, (of whom it is said is “America’s Cowboy Heart Throb”) on the upright bass and vocals. http://www.sydmasters.com/pressreleases.html      A Short History of Western Swing on Pencil Stubs Online While Bob Wills and others were composing the beginnings of Western Swing in the '30s, let's look at where they got their ideas for the music they composed and played and the stylings found in the 50's and later. There they listened to the "race" and "blues" music, and copied the lyrics to fit their own music to them. While Bob Wills and others were composing the beginnings of Western Swing in the '30s, let's look at where they got their ideas for the music they composed and played. http://www.pencilstubs.com/magazine/MagPage.asp?NID=319      WESTERM SWING - A HISTORY Two of his Globe releases, "Whoa Sailor" and "Swing Wide Your Gate of Love" - both of which were his original tunes, brought him to the attention of Tex Ritter and Hank and the Band were signed by Capitol Records. The folks who came to the roadhouses were of course, all the 'locals', - everyone knew everyone else, and their ages ran from the young folks to the old-timers, friends and neighbors, husbands and wives, all could spend some time listening, drinking and dancing the weekend nights away. In the 1960's, the acoustic folk music movement and 'Rockabilly' groups such as 'The Stray Cats' kept Western Swing alive. http://nfo.net/usa/weswing.html      Beats Walkin' Western Swing Band - Reviews! Steel guitar, fiddle and snappy electric guitar are essential to the sound, along with singers who can bend notes jazz-style while singing a two-step. A New Zealand native, Gilmour is a testament to the seductive powers of classic Western swing recordings. But if there are any others, the group is ready for a battle of the bands to own the title fair and square. http://beatswalkin.com/reviews.html      Swing (mostly West Coast Swing) Additionally, there are lists of swing songs in http://catalog.com/meyer/music.html and http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/People/aswin//SwingDancing/Music/cds.html and ftp://ftp.digex.net/pub/access/malak/wcssongs and http://family.values.net/dance/swing.D.txt. The soundtrack CD has many good (fast) swing songs, including "Sing sing sing". I've seen it to music for which I'd prefer cha-cha, hustle, WCS, ECS, and even once merengue. http://www.eijkhout.net/rad/dance_specific/swing.html      Western Swing 5 After all, people Swing dance to Swing music and people Salsa dance to Salsa music. It dates back to Bob Wills and his "Western Swing" music back in the 30s. The music used for both dances is the same speed. http://www.ssqq.com/information/westernswing5.htm      Roughstock's History of Country Music - Western Swing It was a Saturday night dance type of music which combined the style of jazz and big band swing with the culture of the Southwest. He perfected this style in the late 1930's with his band the "Texas Playboys." Many of his greatest hits were recorded between 1936 and 1943. Musically, it contributed the drums and Hawaiian Steel Guitar to Country Music. http://www.roughstock.com/history/westernswing.html      Secret Jazz: The Swinging Side of Western Swing Lest you think that all Western Swing simply borrowed stylistic elements of New Orleans and Big Band Swing, Hank Penny and his Radio Cowboys listened attentively to Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie. The hard swinging instrumental improvisations on piano and steel guitar and the simply crazed, Cab Calloway-like scat vocals on the up tempo jazzy numbers like “Some of these Days” and “Washington & Lee Swing” are timeless gems of 30s jazz. Strange to tell, I heard an album of Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys, the best known Western Swing band of all time, the same year I first heard a Coltrane album. http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=704      Handbook of Texas Online: MILTON BROWN AND HIS MUSICAL BROWNIES Milton Brown and His Musical Brownies was a western swing band that played together between 1932 and 1936. Brown and his musicians were among the earliest pioneers of what was later called western swing, a mixture of country, blues, jazz, pop, and other musical forms. In the formative years of the music, Dunn strongly influenced men like Leon McAuliffe and other steel guitarists. http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/MM/xgm1.html      Amazon.com: Music: Swing West! Vol. 3: Western Swing From the honky-tonks of Bakersfield, to the guitar pyrotechnics of Speedy West and Joe Maphis, to the vibrant swing scene of 1940s Los Angeles, California often led Nashville with new instrumentation, musical composites and lyrical ideas. Spade Cooley, whose orchestra included harps (the stringed instrument, not the harmonica), ruled with such efforts as "Oklahoma Stomp," and Tex Williams & the Western Caravan's "Cowboy Opus No. 1" is every bit as pretentious as its title suggests. With trained, meticulous pop and jazz musicians as their sidemen, postwar California bandleaders created a more grandiose and metronomic brand of swing; they stuck more to arrangements and improvised less than their Texas-Oklahoma predecessors. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00000IPVU?v=glance      Red Meat - Honky Tonk Music on the strong west coast tradition of creating authentic country and western music with a sharp edge, the San Francisco based band Red Meat is dedicated to keeping honky tonk music fresh and alive. Professional and fun, "13" makes a very bold statement in favor of the tenets of traditional country and western music and underscores Red Meat's dedication to the music they love and make. Still true to their original vision, Alvin's experience and expertise gave Red Meat the ability to take their music to the next level. http://www.redmeat.net      Western swing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia It consists of an eclectic combination of country, cowboy, polka, and folk music, blended with a jazzy "swing", with a tip of the hat to New Orleans jazz and Delta blues, and played by a hot string band often augmented with drums, saxophones, pianos and, notably, the pedal steel guitar. With the advent of radio broadcasting, it gained a much wider following and reached its "golden age" in the post-WWII era of the mid-forties — reflecting the waxing and waning of the more mainstream big-band sound. Western swing, also known as Country Swing, is dance music with an up-tempo beat and a decidedly Southwestern US regional flavor. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_swing      Western Swing Links WESTERN SWING MONTHLY - Keep up with current events and releases. JOE JOHNS and THE FADED ROSE BAND - Western swing band from Burnet, Texas. IDA RED and THE MOUNTAIN MELODY STOMPERS - Western swing band from Vienna, Austria. http://www.westernswing.com/Links.html      Western Swingers John England and the Western Swingers is a six piece band based in Nashville, TN, which plays the lively, happy music called Western Swing. With fiddle, steel guitar, piano, electric guitar, bass, and drums, it's music for dancing and listening, and combines the down-home quality of country music with the sophistication and improvisation of hot jazz. Our new CD, Thanks a Lot, has garnered a lot of positive coverage (see "Press/Reviews") and Swinging Broadway was named "2003 Album of the Year" on the USA's best Western Swing chart (swinginwest.com). http://www.westernswingers.net      OPEN RANGE - Ric Steinke & Linda Hausler - Western & Western Swing Music They perform music from the old western standards, to swing tunes of the 40’s, to western music being written today, including their own original compositions. Ric Steinke and Linda Hausler weave a musical blend of tight vocal harmonies and outstanding acoustic instrumentation. OPEN RANGE - Ric Steinke and Linda Hausler - Western and Western Swing Music http://steinke-hausler.com      Roots66: Music: Western Bands The saga is an authentic western opera, uniquely absorbing and moving, and like the story itself is tied together with a musical arrangement rustically guiding the listener through the dramatic progression of each chapter. The Prescott Playboys - Fred Spears and The Prescott Playboys is not your avereage Country and Western Swing band. We are deeply rooted in "honky tonk" and western swing type music. http://www.roots66.com/roots66/music/west/index.shtml      Western Swing Music King of New York Nolan Bruce Allen Western Swing Music King of New York Nolan Bruce Allen NBA and his LONE STAR WESTERN SWING BAND have performed Western Swing Music since the early 1970's. To promote, record and perform Western Swing Music http://www.lonestarband.com      Discography of Western Swing and Hot String Bands, 1928-1942 — Greenwood Publishing Group The style developed from the Texas string band tradition, growing from a fiddle and guitar duo into full swing band groups, and along the way, it drew from and absorbed a variety of other musical styles, thus making it one of the most diverse genres in American music. The result of years of research by its authors, this discography strives to identify and trace the recorded development of the musical style now known as western swing from its early years through World War II. Until now, studies have been limited to a few book-length biographies, but through exhaustive research and interviews, Ginell and Coffey have provided the most complete and comprehensive listing of pre-War western swing and hot string band recordings to date. http://www.greenwood.com/books/BookDetail.asp?sku=GR1116      Welcome to The BigBands Database Plus For awhile, other music was to take the place of the great bands, but with the new millenium, a new generation has re-discovered Swing and Jazz. The BigBands Database: An ongoing project dedicated to Bands; to Jazz and to Swing History, and to the music now known to the world as "American Popular Song". Loyal and enthusiatic fans followed all the 'doings' of their favorite band. http://nfo.net      swingin' west- an award winning western swing music radio program Learn all about the Western Swing style of music, the history of this genre as well as today's music groups and organizations Welcome to Swingin' West, the radio show that spotlights vintage and contemporary Western Swing music and related sounds. Memories of some of the artists of Western Swing and Western Music http://www.swinginwest.com      Texas Swing Country Music Festivals before Western Swing  - May 2005 Legends of Texas Swing Country Music Festival is a day of celebration and recognition for country music festival lovers. is more than a Country Music Festival, it is a celebration of Western Swing, a style and form of country music unique to Texas, which has become a living and lasting part of Texas History. The Country Music Festival features members of the former Bob Wills Band, plus numerous current artists and bands, who work to keep Western Swing alive and well today. http://www.legendsoftexasswing.com      Milton Brown & the Founding of Western Swing The roots of western swing - that wonderful fusion of jazz, blues, and country - have long been associated with Bob Wills, the most famous performer of this hybrid country music tradition. But in Milton Brown and the Founding of Western Swing, Cary Ginell reveals that the various elements which make up western swing first came together in a band formed by Brown in 1932, the Musical Brownies. Over two decades later, a similar mixture of black and white musics would give rise to Elvis Presley and rockabilly. http://home.earthlink.net/~soundthink/html/mbbook.html      Western & Swing Week at Ashokan We provide classes in both music and dance, so that dancers will have the finest music to dance to and musicians will be inspired by the great dance forms that their music is rooted in. CLASSES and ACTIVITIES INCLUDE: Lindy and West Coast swing, CandW dances, squares and contras, fiddle, mandolin, guitar, singing, piano, vocal workshops, swing and country band clinics, improvisation, music theory, dance parties, jam sessions, song swaps and more... It's not uncommon to find an experienced dancer taking a beginning music class or an experienced musician learning to dance for the first time. http://www.ashokan.org/ashokan/campwsw.shtml      Swing Nouveau plays western swing Aside from Swing Toujours, Rick plays jazz and classic rock with Rick Jobe and Tuxedo Junction, in the retro-rock band Ricky and the Sharks, and contemporary Christian music with Grateful Live. With the ambience of a chamber ensemble and the energy of a big band, this group brings together the best of both worlds. Jim's current positions include leadership of the Terra Nova ensemble (Americana and Fiddle Music), Creative Director of Whippoorwill Records, Creative Director of his heart throb, Swing Toujours. http://www.knology.net/~rickjobe/SWING_NOUVEAU/swing_nouveau.htm      The River Road Boys He has always played Western Swing music, and has worked with or played in backup bands with many varied people, from Bing Crosby and Phil Harris to the Bob Hope Telethon, The Texas Playboys, Johnny Gimble, Clif Bruner and Pappy Selph. You can easily two-step, polka, waltz, and swing dance to their music and they always fill the dance floor when their trademark “twin fiddles” kick off the next tune. Clyde has played with virtually every large band and big-name musician throughout Texas, and is recognized by his peers far and wide as a "Musician's Musician," as well as being an excellent band leader. http://www.riverroadboys.com      MelBay.com: Western Swing Guitar Styles, by Joe Carr While the song might be a simple one--playable with only two or three chords--the western swing guitarist changes chords every two beats, providing a driving and harmonically interesting background for the singers and instrumentalists. If you have ever heard the sound of rhythm guitar in a good western swing band, you may have wondered how the guitarist achieved that unique chordal sound. The chords and progressions explained in this book can be used in many types of music in addition to western swing and would serve as an excellent transition from open-string folk chords to more of a jazz approach. http://www.melbay.com/product.asp?productid=94906BCD      Dave Alexander and the Legends of Western Swing   He’ll be brining in his band, the Legends of Western Swing. “It means a lot to me and I am grateful that George keeps western music alive and well on his yearly tour,” says Alexander, “Western Swing has always played a major role in Texas music.” Friday, he’ll be back, this time as a featured performer for the 69 http://www.davealexander.com/new.asp      History of Western Swing Certainly nowhere else in the USA does an entire city have ladies double turning to Western music. The rest of the country mostly Line Dances to country music. Of equal importance, do you ever wonder why Houston is the only city in America where everyone double turns to Western music? http://ssqq.com/information/westswng.htm      Tom Morrell & The Timewarp Tophands - WesternSwing.net The performances are dead center on target with another All Star Western Swing cast of killer musicians and memorable performances. More great Western Swing from Tom and the 'Tophands'. Click on the volume numbers to get more details about each album. http://www.westernswing.net/morrell      Western Swing Monthly A complete and up to the minute listing of dances, shows, festivals and events playing Western Swing music. Sacramento Western Swing Society's 24th Annual Hall of Fame Music Festival in Sacramento, CA Oct 20 Be sure to stop by the new music store! http://www.wsmonthly.com      Rick and the Ramblers : Western Swing Band Rick and the Ramblers : Western Swing Band Our next concert is next year - see you then! http://www.rickandtheramblers.com      Available artists in Western Swing - Free Music Downloads - MP3 Downloads - Download.com Music Country » Western Swing, Easy Listening, Mood Music I am a songwriter, performer and producer of Jazz, Country, Easy Listening. Something like the twangy, dance-floor-friendly sound of Arizona's Billy Bennett. http://music.download.com/3605-8354_32-0.html      Moviefone: Legends of Western Swing Guitar Movie Synopsis: Blending the danceable rhythms of big band jazz and the guitar-and-fiddle based textures of country & western, Western Swing was a potent musical hybrid that was all the rage in the South and... Legends of Western Swing Guitar: Vestapol DVD 13062dvd The cornerstone of western swing is its slippery lead guitar, which straddles the... http://movies.aol.com/movie/main.adp?mid=1159003      DVD Empire - Item - Legends Of Western Swing Guitar / DVD-Video The repertory of any Western Swing band includes tunes associated with each of these schools of music, but DVD Empire - Item - Legends Of Western Swing Guitar / DVD-Video Legends Of Western Swing Guitar presents playing of Eldon Shamblin, Billy Dozier, Bob Kiser, Muriel "Zeke" Campbell, Benny Garcia, Cameron Hill, Jimmy Wyble and http://www.dvdempire.com/Exec/v4_item.asp?item_id=550926&partner_id=10007512      Jazz Fiddle Wizard - A Practical Guide To Jazz Improvising For Strings From Martin Norgaard's new live CD Audio page. video of students improvising in performance playing the newly published orchestra piece Swing on a String. Thoughtful and sympathetic swing arrangement that understands Smith's melodic intention and turns of phrase without actually copying him - http://www.jazzfiddlewizard.com      Beats Walkin' Western Swing Band - CD Recordings Beats Walkin' Western Swing Band - CD Recordings Announcing Beats Walkin's second CD, recorded live and entitled "Bop-a-billy Swing!" It's our best yet. We think you're gonna love it: a great mix of western swing and swing standards including: http://www.beatswalkin.com/cds.html      Welcome to Johnny Gimble's world of Texas Swing! Gimble's solos reflect a life-long pursuit of improvising, with endless variations that always seem the perfect embodiment of this genre. One of the few giants in the fiddling world, he has performed with many of the biggest names in the recording industry, including Bob Wills, Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard, and has won several Country Music Association Instrumentalist of the Year awards. Gimble has long been recognized as the leader of his field – his playing has been the most studied of any fiddler in the western swing style. http://www.johnnygimble.com      DenverPost.com - OBITUARIES They specialized in vintage Western swing, a musical genre enjoying a revival. He wrote and sang dozens of his own songs. Sean Blackburn was a regular during the early years of “A Prairie Home Companion” and a fixture on the cowboy music circuit. http://www.denverpost.com/obituaries/ci_3097883      Western Swing Newsletter is an occassional publication devoted to Western Swing music. Averaging 1 issue a year, all 21 previous back issues are available. It features biographies, discographies, record reviews, and news of current western swing events. http://www.westernswing.com/WSN.html      Western Music,Spanish,Gospel,Christmas,Fiddle, CD Music Sales We sell a variety of CD music including; Cowboy and Western, Fiddle, Gospel, Christmas, Old-Time Piano, Instrumental, Spanish, Flamenco, Tex-Mex, Mariachi, American Indian, and Kids Music. Browse this web site to see and hear what you’ve been missing. http://www.lineshacktradingpost.com      Hulabilly - Red Hot Hawaiian Western Swing-a-lulu Listening to Hulabilly perform is like listening to old records from the 20s and 30s. When Hulabilly plays, the sweet sounds of forgotten superstars resonate again, alongside originals written in the same styles. ulabilly is a NYC area trio that plays a jubilant mix of vintage Hawaiian, Western Swing and Red Hot Jazz. http://www.hulabilly.com

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