Hot Club Sandwich

Hello everyone, quick reminder about the memorial service (jam and potluck) for *Ray Wood* this Saturday, Jan 18 from 12-4pm at the Eagles' in Olympia. Everyone is encouraged to bring musical instruments. We look forward to seeing all of you who are able to attend. Eagles #21: 805 4th Ave E, Olympia, WA 98501

The next day in Seattle, on Sunday Jan 19 from 1-4pm at the Ballard Elks' Lodge, Hot Club Sandwich will perform for the Puget Sound Traditional Jazz Society where we will also pay tribute to Ray. Joining us on the bandstand will be Mike Daugherty on drums and Michael Van Bebber on trumpet. We will perform several of Ray's compositions for dancers, as well as several of the tunes he brought to us over the years.

Photos are from Weiser in 2007, including a Stickerville Sessions guitar workshop and subsequent visit to Eunice, Louisiana where Ray recorded country guitar with Kelley and the Cowboys in the Whirlybird and donned a nudie suit from the collection of Jimmy C. Newman, the Alligator Man.

At long last, after twenty years, the second Hot Club Sandwich album, ‘Digga Digga Do’ is now streaming online. Check it out on your platform of choice, like Pandora: https://www.pandora.com/artist/hot-club-sandwich/digga-digga-do/AL7vvPk96KVbg7P — or — Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/4gmMqYhoXPkC4iJZOKABrM

Expertly recorded by David Lange, masterfully produced by Orville Johnson, ‘Digga Digga Do’ was the first real Hot Club Sandwich studio production. Like all of our albums, ‘Digga Digga Do’ traverses a range of musical themes and rhythms with original compositions by band members (“False Valse”; "HCS Strut"; “Desde Que Viniste”; “Mudka Bushka”; “Diminishing Returns”; “Karmen”; “La Valse de L’Amoureaux”) alongside venerable classics like the title trac). As always, we included a few special selections from elsewhere around the world. Juan Carlos Serbulo Sosa sang in Portuguese, our engineer David Lange contributed accordion to our treatment of a vintage Brazilian choro. Our friends LaVon Hardison and Rich Sikorski both contributed vocals on multiple songs.

Tracy Bigelow Grisman painted the cover art, and Joshua Sage Photography captured the band on film during low tide on Port Townsend Bay when the record was released. The ‘flaming baguette’ design was created by In the CD booklet, we also used head shots of band members taken spontaneously one night in a photo booth. Our printed list of thanks extends gratitude to all our families and friends, our mentors and teachers, luthiers, music stores, radio stations and DJs up and down the West Coast. We thanked our friends and the bands we’d encounter on the road, especially “everyone who has let us sleep on their floors and practice in their kitchens.”

Thanks again - to all of you - for tapping thru links and streaming our second album, ‘Digga Digga Do’ — https://linktr.ee/hotclubsandwich

Vince Brown – guitar
Kevin Connor – guitar
Greg Ruby Music – guitar
James Schneider – bass
Matt Sircely – mandolin
Tim Wetmiller - violin

David Lange Studios (now Lange Studios) – engineering and mixing
Orville Johnson – producer
Tracy Bigelow Grisman - cover art

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