Elana James: Bob Wills meets Jessica Alba By Amanda on March 20, 2008 8:57 AM | Permalink | Comments (2)
I have some box sets in the genre and some Hot Club of Cowtown discs but I must confess I like my western swing is smallish doses. I like country and I like jazz but western swing mostly manages to combine all the most uninteresting (to me) things about country and jazz. But I enjoy it at the right time and place and the big top on the Katoomba primary school oval last Friday night was one such place: Elana James and her sidemen were a lot of fun Additional interest is that she toured with Bob and played on a couple of Tom Russell records. Also, I expect if I really dug chicks I would have made sure to catch all her Blue Mountains fest shows because, goodness, she is quite attractive. By the end of the weekend I was thoroughly sick of being surrounded by uber-attractive and/or uber-talented people (the "and" ones are the worst) and was pleased to get back to my day job to bathe in soothing mediocrity again.
Elana James on YouTube.
By Francis Xavier Holden
on March 20, 2008 8:35 PM
Oh floppy dearest - no no no and no.
Western Swing combines the BEST of country and jazz.
big balls in cowtown indeed.
By Francis Xavier Holden
on March 20, 2008 9:08 PM
TWENTY-FOUR HOURS A DAY has bene my top rotation song for the last month.
http://www.elanajames.com/lyrics_twentyfourhoursaday.html