Western Swing
When cowboys discovered jazz and refused to apologize.
Western Swing is a style from the Dust and Highway family. 130 BPM, Weirdness 30, Style Influence 88.
Jazz in a cowboy hat: western swing, a Texas-born blend of country and jazz, had the dance floors moving before anyone else did.
See lyrics written in this style →When to choose this style
Choose it when elegance wants to wear boots.
How it sounds
1940s texas ballroom, big band stage with music stands, warm bulb lights, polished empty dance floor
Palette: warm sepia / amber gold / curtains burgundy
- BPM
- 130 BPM
- Family
- Dust and Highway
- Serial
- PLV-17
- Rarity
- Epic
- Style fidelity
- 88
- Sonic weirdness
- 30
Typical structure
[Big band Intro] → [Verse] → [Chorus] → [Fiddle Solo] → [Steel guitar Solo] → [Chorus] → [Outro]
- JAZZ IN A HAT
- BALLROOM
Sample excerpt
Saturday night and the hall's already full, fiddle and steel arguing in the friendliest way. My grandmother met my grandfather right here, and neither one of them could sit a song out.
Swing it, sister, swing it easy, this floor has seen a lot of good decisions. Ain't a problem in the county that a Saturday can't hold off till Monday.
Workshop note — First person, present, joyful. Western swing borrows jazz phrasing for country instruments: the lyric should be light and the rhythm swung. At 130 BPM write short lines and let the fiddle and steel trade fills.
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