"Often people at our shows, old-timers from West Texas, will come up and tell us that what they really like is those old time Gypsy songs. This was the antidote to our western swing CD. Our band is better known as a western swing act, and even though western swing included all kinds of jazzy bluesy idioms from back in the day, the western and country part of it are so prominent that it tends to overshadow the purely jazzy European side of the style."
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