Sidewinder brings back the "Country Cousin" swing music of the 1930s. The swing music that was heard in the dance halls of the southwest featured hot fiddling and steel guitar along side of the jazz guitar and moving bass lines common to the urban swing bands. Beginning in the country dance halls of Texas and Oklahoma, an infectious combination of country, cowboy, polka, and folk music was blended with "swing" to create a variation that would later come to be known as "Western Swing". The Nevada City based group also throws in other swing styles ala Count Basie and Nat Cole as well as some original swing.
Sidewinder personnel consists of veteran players Rudy Darling on fiddle, John Girton on guitar and clarinet, Doug Bianchi on stand-up bass, and Rick Toles on steel guitar and fiddle. Their playing will delight your ears and invite your feet to move.
The new release, "Swingin' West", is a wonderful collection of swing music. Styles range from Bob Wills and The Texas Playboys (Time Changes Everything) to Stephane Grappelli and Django Reinhardt (Swing 42) to Merle Haggard (Big City) as well as a John Girton original (What It Is).
Three part harmonies and hot instrumentation makes this uplifting CD toe-tapping fun!
Swingin' West Song List
1 Time Changes Everything
2 Telling My Troubles to My Old Guitar
3 It Don’t Mean A Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing)
4 Oh Mona!
5 Undecided
6 Way Down Yonder in New Orleans
7 Cowboy Nightherd Song
8 All of Me
9 What It Is
10 Big City
11 Choo Choo Cha Boogie
12 Swing 42