Hot Club swings this old familiar folk song. Hot Club of Cowtown performs "Oklahoma Hills" by Woody Guthrie during the "Tearin' It Up in Elko Town" show at the 25th National Cowboy Poetry Gathering.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Hot Club of Cowtown

Hot Club of Cowtown has been stunning audiences worldwide for over 20 years with its trademark blend of hot jazz, western swing, American songbook standards, and music from 1930s Paris and the American West. Elana James (fiddle, vocals) grew up in a musical family, and early on spent summers wrangling and packing horses on Colorado ranches. She discovered western swing with bandmate Whit Smith (guitar, vocals) , whose first memories include folk and acoustic blues music. Jake Erwin (bass, vocals) grew up in Oklahoma and "ran away with the circus." He became especially attracted to a style as slap bass. Together they keep dancers on their toes as the band virtuosically improvises through what The Independent calls "that crossroads where country meets jazz and chases the blues away."

"The Oklahoma Hills" song by Woody Guthrie.

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Filmed in front of a live audience at the Elko Convention Center’s Laurena Moren Theater on Jan. 30, 2009.

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