Swingin' Stampede is the 1998 all-cover debut album of western swing group The Hot Club of Cowtown.
Track listing "If I Had Someone Else" (Harris/Darcey/Stanley) – 2:52 "Silver Dew on the Blue Grass Tonight" (Burt) – 3:04 "Somebody Loves Me" (Gershwin) – 2:10 "My Confession" (Wills) – 3:00 "Snowflake Reel" (Traugutt) – 2:01 "End of the Line" (Gimble/Wills) – 2:53 "T and J Waltz" (Maddux) – 2:53 "Sweet Jenny Lee" (Donaldson) – 2:32 "Mission to Moscow" (Powell) – 2:12 "You Can't Break My Heart" (Cooley/Rogers) – 3:15 "Red Bird" – 1:40 "Chinatown, My Chinatown" (Jerome/Schwartz) – 3:00 "Just Friends" (Wills) – 3:22 "Ida Red" – 3:06
Personnel Whit Smith - Vocals, Guitar, Producer Elana Fremerman - Vocals, Fiddle, Producer Billy Horton - Backup Vocals, Upright Bass, Producer Johnny Gimble - Fiddle (Tracks 1, 4, 8, 14) T Jarrod Bonta - Piano (Tracks 8, 10) Jeremy Wakefield - Steel Guitar (Tracks 8, 10) Mike Maddux - Accordion (Track 7) Steve Starnes - Engineering Spencer Starnes - Engineering Ed Temple - Cover Illustration George Brainard - Photography Cindy Pascarello - Design
Reception
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".
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