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	Swing (dance) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Swing is a group of related street dances that evolved from Lindy Hop.
		Swing is a partner dance, where the couple consists of a leader and follower, who share a connection.
		West Coast Swing is often danced with blues and rock and roll music, as well as to smooth and cool jazz.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Swing_(dance) (730 words)

	Western swing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Western swing, also known as Country Swing, is dance music with an up-tempo beat and a decidedly Southwestern US regional flavor.
		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.
		Spade Cooley coined the term 'Western swing' in the early 1940's.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Western_swing (219 words)

	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.
		In reviving the freewheeling, eclectic sensibility of Western swing godfather Bob Wills, the Wheel earned enthusiastic critical praise throughout their lengthy career; they not only preserved classic sounds that had all but disappeared from country music, but were also able to update the music, keeping it a living, breathing art form.
		Hank Thompson was perhaps the most popular Western swing musician of the '50s and '60s, keeping the style alive with a top-notch band, tremendous showmanship, and a versatility that allowed him to expand his repertoire into romantic ballads and hardcore honky tonk numbers.
	www.mp3.com /western-swing/genre/213/subgenre.html (4561 words)

	WESTERN SWING
		The sub-genre of country music called Western Swing is where jazz, blues and mountain music met in the 1920s.
		The 1930s and 1940s were the glory days of Western Swing and many of the bands were likened to the popular big bands of the day like Tommy Dorsey.
		Nowadays, Western Swing and its cousin Bluegrass are very much cult music and have no impact on modern country trends.
	www.webspawner.com /users/WesternSwingInfo (505 words)

	Swing History origins of Swing Dance
		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.
		In the late 1930's and through the 1940's, the terms Lindy Hop, Jitterbug, Lindy, and Swing were used interchangeably by the news media to describe the same style of dancing taking place on the streets, in the night clubs, in contests, and in the movies.
		From the mid 1940's to today, the Lindy Hop, Jitterbug, Lindy, and Swing, were stripped down and distilled by the ballroom dance studio teachers in order to adapt what they were teaching to the less nimble-footed general public who paid for dance lessons.
	www.centralhome.com /ballroomcountry/swing.htm (1376 words)

	Western Dance history. Origins of country dance
		Modern western dance is part of this global language and its roots run wide and deep.
		Having "the intimacy of the Waltz and the vivacity of the Irish jig", the Polka was embraced with enthusiasm.
		His big band swing sound was listened to around the world and soon the Lindy Hop gave birth to the Jitterbug, a fast moving combination of fancy footwork and elaborate spins, twirls and turns, many of which can still be seen in contemporary country swing moves.
	www.centralhome.com /ballroomcountry/western.htm (1389 words)

	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.
		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...
		Dave has perfect pitch when it comes to reclaiming old-time western swing and hillbilly material, and as a producer he is so faultlessly sympathetic to the goals and passions of the Hot Club, that this album is one of the best of it's kind you're likely to hear.
	www.slipcue.com /music/country/countrystyles/old/westernswing01.html (2562 words)

	Swing (mostly West Coast Swing)
		In West Coast Swing the follower stays in a narrow slot on the floor; the leader stays in the center of the slot and steps out of the way to let the follower pass.
		Western Swing was the name originally given in the late '40s to what is now called West Coast Swing.
		The name change came about to avoid confusion with country and western, in particular Western Swing, a style of music related to both country and jazz, which was popular under that name already in the '40s.
	www.eijkhout.net /rad/dance_specific/swing.html (1063 words)

	WESTERM SWING - A HISTORY
		'Western Swing' was played in the roadhouses, county fairs and dancehalls of small towns throughout the Lower Great Plains.
		Probably the best known of the early Western Swing bands were Milton Brown and his Brownies, and Bob Wills and The Texas Playboys, but there were hundreds more who managed to achieve a modicum of fame even if in just their own regional area.
		Of all the bands, it was The Western Caravan that carried on the true Western Swing traditions, -in their commitment to using string players primarily.
	nfo.net /usa/weswing.html (6218 words)

	Western swing's the thing - Saturday, 02/01/03 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		But on a recent Monday evening in Robert's Western World, where long shelves of cowboy boots pointed their toes across the honky-tonk and burgers sizzled on the flat-top griddle, a clutch of cold-weather refugees tapped their own toes to old songs by the likes of Bob Wills and Floyd Tillman.
		In recent years, the Austin band Asleep at the Wheel has kept western swing alive nationally, but when the Time Jumpers formed, Hester says, western swing was scarcely alive in Nashville and the band was a weekly lark and little more.
		England agrees that the western swing scene is improving.
	www.tennessean.com /entertainment/music/archives/03/02/28322128.shtml (1018 words)

	Western Swing 5 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		However it was this same group who channeled their loss by taking Western dancing to exciting new heights in the Summer of 1980 because they wouldn't settle for the status quo.
		The innovation of the Western Swing Double Turns meant no woman would ever again be stuck going backwards for an entire song as long as she lived in Houston, Texas.
		I simply said I was present when the nature of Western dancing here in Houston changed from basic Twostep into Western Swing and that I contributed to the development of the dance at that time.
	www.ssqq.com /information/westernswing5.htm (5536 words)

	Driving Votes - Tracy Chapman's Western Swing State Tour
		Tracy Chapman's concern for social and political issues is reflected in her work, and with the Western Swing Tour, she continued to lend her voice, her time and her passion to support political empowerment.
		The Western Swing Tour traveled through New Mexico to Arizona this past week with Tracy Chapman performing at sold out venues in Santa Fe, Albuquerque, and Phoenix.
		Tracy brought home the importance of each audience member's vote when she reminded crowds in New Mexico that in 2000 the margin of victory in their state (366) was smaller than the number of people in the room.
	www.drivingvotes.org /tracy/index.shtml (487 words)

	Western Swing Music Guide - Slipcue.Com E-Zine
		His western swing roots are evident throughout, although Mullican didn't seem to pay as much attention to tight musicianship as many of his peers.
		Penny was one of western swing's most impish, playful performers, and also one of the fellows who had the deepest connections to the jump blues scene that was blossoming alongside the postwar country boom.
		This is one of the hottest (and peppiest) western swing bands of all time, from a San Antonio outfit that had a way with saucy novelty songs, and a real sweet-tooth for jazzy arrangements...
	www.slipcue.com /music/country/countrystyles/old/westernswing02.html (2388 words)

	A Short History of Western Swing on Pencil Stubs Online
		Western Swing made a strong impact on the pop charts, especially during and after WWII and radio helped spread its popularity until TV became the mass media.
		Swing, Jazz, Dixieland, a hint of Bessie Smith singing blues, of Jimmie Rodgers strumming and yodeling, some Carter Family inspiration, west Texas fiddling, and the addition of Leon McAuliff with his steel innovations made new sounds.
		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.
	www.pencilstubs.com /magazine/MagPage.asp?NID=319 (5834 words)

	Where to country western or swing dance in Dallas...
		This page is a comprehensive list of lessons, clubs, competitions, and organizations to help you find how when and where to learn to country western or swing dance, and meet others to practice and socialize with in the Dallas, Texas area.
		Country western dances included are 2 step, 3 step, progressive double two, cha cha, waltz and shuffle.
		Swing includes west coast swing, push, and east coast swing.
	www.dancingindallas.com (179 words)

	John T. Wills Western Swing Page
		Western Swing has its roots in many various forms, brought together to create a happy, joyful dance rhythm.
		John T. and his band "The Sons Of Swing" continue the tradition of making, playing, and performing great western swing songs, both old and new.
		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.
	members.tripod.com /%7Eamp57/JTW.html (755 words)

	Beats Walkin' Western Swing Band - Reviews!
		Texas swing is another way of saying Western swing -- a hybrid of hillbilly and hip launched by folks like Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys in the 1930s.
		His blues experience comes in handy in a Western swing band where "Milk Cow" and other classics are used to break up the set.
		A New Zealand native, Gilmour is a testament to the seductive powers of classic Western swing recordings.
	beatswalkin.com /reviews.html (576 words)

	Amazon.com: Music: Swing West! Vol. 3: Western Swing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Still, you could count on Merle Travis to swing the form harder than ever on tracks like "Let's Settle Down (To Runnin' Around Together)," and Cliffie Stone, though often smooth and erratic, could turn in stomps like "Barracuda" that threatened to go over the top.
		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.
		The Golden State's western swing had looser ties to traditional country, crossing from blues and jazz charts (including a mesmerizing opus by Tex Williams) to 8-bar boogie and proto-rock `n' roll.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00000IPVU?v=glance (605 words)

	swingin' west- an award winning western swing music radio program
		Mike was inducted into the Western Swing Music Society of Kansas Hall of Fame in June 2005 and the Western Swing Society of Sacramento Hall of Fame on October 10, 2004.
		Mike was also inducted into the Seattle Pioneers Of Western Swing Hall of Fame in 2002 and was the Academy of Western Artists DJ Of The Year in 2000.
		Live Western Swing At Lincoln Center - New York City July 2, 2005- On which Mike was emcee and DJ Of Western Swing Music on stage between the live sets of Western Swing legend Leon Rausch and the Western Swing hit makers John England & The Western Swingers was a major success.
	www.swinginwest.com (339 words)

	Western Cowboy Swing Band - Syd Masters & The Swing Riders
		Another third of the band’s material is Western swing from the 1930s, ‘40s and ‘50s.
		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.
		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.
	www.sydmasters.com /pressreleases.html (2463 words)

	DenverPost.com - OBITUARIES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Western swing singer and guitarist Sean Blackburn, 56, who died in Golden on Sept. 29 of a heart attack, was a regular guest during the early years of "A Prairie Home Companion" and, along with longtime partner Liz Masterson, a fixture on the cowboy music circuit.
		They specialized in vintage Western swing, a musical genre enjoying a revival.
		Like Blackburn, she gravitated toward vintage Western swing that propelled her career when she led the Cactus Crooners.
	www.denverpost.com /obituaries/ci_3097883 (920 words)

	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.
		Bob Wills, born east of Kosse, Texas in an area known as The Moss Springs Community, is known as the "King of Western Swing".
		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.
	www.roughstock.com /history/westernswing.html (211 words)

	Secret Jazz: The Swinging Side of Western Swing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Western Swing is a musical genre wonderfully described by its leading historian Cary Ginell as “a bastard child that neither country nor jazz is willing to accept into their own house.
		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.
		For any Western Swing novice on a budget, but with a deep hankering for a superbly sequenced overview of the style, there is the four disc box on the Proper label, Doughboys, Playboys, and Cowboys: the Golden Years of Western Swing.
	www.allaboutjazz.com /php/article.php?id=704 (1106 words)

	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 was also the first to use a piano in western swing.
		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.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/MM/xgm1.html (619 words)

	Amazon.com: Music: Daddy of Western Swing [BOX SET] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		After discovering the red hot band Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys, I was looking forward to listening to more Western swing music.
		Most of this is NOT western swing - most of it is early Western music or pop songs done Western style.
		There are a handful of pieces that may be historically important because you can hear Brown beginning to combine jazz and Western but I ended up not putting one of these songs into my ipod - they weren't that enjoyable.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000918PM?v=glance (613 words)

	Swing Nouveau plays western swing
		Swing Toujours is an acoustic swing ensemble founded in 1999 by Rick Jobe and Jim Wood.
		He is also very proud to be the educator of many aspiring violinists and fiddlers and to have recorded and archived national treasures in the form of fiddle tunes.
		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.
	www.knology.net /~rickjobe/SWING_NOUVEAU/swing_nouveau.htm (637 words)

	Western Swing Links
		RICKY BOEN and TEXAS MUD - Mixes cowboy, country, and western swing led by fiddle champ Ricky Boen.
		TED SCANLON AND THE DESPERADOS - “New Mexico’s Premiere Western Swing Band.”
		WESTERN CARAVAN - New York’s premier western swing and honky tonk orchestra.
	www.westernswing.com /Links.html (857 words)

	Western Swing - AZ NM CO
		Western Swing - AZ NM CO Western Swing - AZ ear Readers, Things are starting to take off now: amid torrents of mail we're getting a steady trickle of pictures.
		Much of the mail and commentary I get revolves around swing states and how I should start blogging them.
		As citizens of swing states, please bear in mind that the point here is to win people over, not put them off, so let's try and soft pedal the "Bush = Hitler" stuff, okay?
	www.freewayblogger.com /westernswing.htm (249 words)

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