Swingin' Stampede

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Swingin' Stampede
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Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 1, 1998
Genre
Length38:27
Label Hightone Records
Producer The Hot Club of Cowtown
The Hot Club of Cowtown chronology
Swingin' Stampede
(1998)
Tall Tales
(1999)

Swingin' Stampede is the 1998 all-cover debut album of western swing group The Hot Club of Cowtown. [2]

Contents

Track listing

  1. "If I Had Someone Else" (Harris/Darcey/Stanley) – 2:52
  2. "Silver Dew on the Blue Grass Tonight" (Burt) – 3:04
  3. "Somebody Loves Me" (Gershwin) – 2:10
  4. "My Confession" (Wills) – 3:00
  5. "Snowflake Reel" (Traugutt) – 2:01
  6. "End of the Line" (Gimble/Wills) – 2:53
  7. "T and J Waltz" (Maddux) – 2:53
  8. "Sweet Jenny Lee" (Donaldson) – 2:32
  9. "Mission to Moscow" (Powell) – 2:12
  10. "You Can't Break My Heart" (Cooley/Rogers) – 3:15
  11. "Red Bird" – 1:40
  12. "Chinatown, My Chinatown" (Jerome/Schwartz) – 3:00
  13. "Just Friends" (Wills) – 3:22
  14. "Ida Red" – 3:06

Personnel

Reception

Professional ratings
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Jim Smith, in his review of the album for AllMusic, said the group sounded "like a fired-up, pared down version of the Texas Playboys". [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Smith, Jim. Swingin' Stampede at AllMusic. Retrieved 18 September 2017.
  2. MSN Music Swingin Stampede