Western swing

Western swing is a style of popular music that began in the 1920s in the American Southwest among the region’s popular Western string bands. It is dance music, often with an up-tempo beat. The music is an amalgamation of rural, cowboy, polka, and folk, New Orleans jazz or Dixieland, and blues blended with a jazzy “swing”. and played by a hot string band often augmented with drums, saxophones, pianos and, notably, the steel guitar. Read more…|Edit this Artist photo: Hank Williams III

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Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
He's My Brother She's My SisterConcert 		Track 29
Chattanooga, TN, United States
35.117216 -85.291028

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Saturday 29 June 2013
Asleep At The Wheel [early show]
Asleep at the WheelConcert 		The Kessler Theater
Dallas, United States
32.74943 -96.842563
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Asleep At The Wheel [late show]
Asleep at the WheelConcert 		The Kessler Theater
Dallas, United States
32.74943 -96.842563
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Thursday 18 July 2013
Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite BoysConcert Dan's Silverleaf
Denton, TX, United States
33.214043 -97.130012
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Tuesday 30 July 2013
Wayne HancockConcert Tractor Tavern
Seattle, Washington, Seattle, United States
47.665781 -122.382626
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Monday 16 September 2013
Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite BoysConcert Jammin' Java
Vienna, Washington DC, United States
38.904109 -77.261017
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