National Cowboy Poetry Gathering: Hot Club of Cowtown Performs "My Window Faces the South"

At the 36th Gathering, Hot Club of Cowtown swings into "My Window Faces the South," a song attributed to Jay Livingston, Mitchell Parish, and Abner Silver. This performance is from the "Tribute to Don Edwards" show on January 31, 2020 - the full show is available to Western Folklife Center members only, so go to www.westernfolklife.org and join now! Hot Club of Cowtown has been stunning audiences worldwide for over 20 years. Their trademark blend of hot jazz, western swing, Gypsy music, American songbook standards, and music from 1930s Paris and the American West, is unmistakable. Vocalist and classically trained violinist Elana James is a sometime-Montana and Colorado horse wrangler. She discovered western swing with bandmate Whit Smith (vocals and guitar), whose first memories also include folk and acoustic blues music. Jake Erwin completes the trio with tight vocal harmonies and jaw-dropping double bass lines.