hot club of cowtown

Forget the luxury tour buses, Elana James from the Hot Club of Cowtown is driving herself across the country for the band's show at Munson Williams Proctor Art Institute tonight.  Elana stopped for gas and a conversation.  She tells us how the name Hot Club of Cowtown came about, their "around the world tour" and touring with Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan...

Your first reaction to this headline may be what is the Hot Club of Cowtown? They're a 3 piece Austin Western Swing band described as "the most globetrotting, hardest-playing Western swing trio on the planet."  Think Bob Wills mixed with Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan.  The trio is made up of Elana James, Whit Smith and Jake Erwin.  And while the name is obviously synonymous with Texas, Ela