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Listen to the full 2003 Hot Club Sandwich album: Digga Digga Do

Now streaming on all major services like Pandora (link here) and Spotify (link here)

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 Hatch Show Print. 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.”

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Listen to the No Pressure album on Youtube

No Pressure is a special addition to the HCS catalog, featuring a guest appearance from mandolin master David “Dawg” Grisman. The cover art was painted by Tracy Grisman, who also sings the final song. A few years ago, the band spent a few winter days together, improvising a recording studio in old boarding house on the Olympic Peninsula. The occasion yielded fourteen songs recorded fireside. In addition to playing mandolin on half of the songs, Dawg offered creative advice for crafting arrangements. Grisman’s composition “Swang Thang” leads off the record with twin mandolins on the melody. “Winter Rain” and the title track, “No Pressure” were composed by the band’s seasoned guitarist Ray Wood (1942-2024) with his songwriting partner at the time, Vann Cantin. Hoagy Carmichael’s “Rockin’ Chair” precedes a Peruvian waltz from the same era. Also see this preview article in No Depression about Blackpot Coozie.

We will forever mourn the tragic passing of Joseph Mascorella due to unexpected illness in October, 2022. Joseph’s salient vocals and brilliant drumming continue to shine our most recent recording . We hold his memory in our hearts every single day.

And If Only (2010) – Hot Club Sandwich with Dan Hicks

The fourth release from Seattle-based Hot Club Sandwich takes place squarely in Hicksville with a guest vocal performance by Dan Hicks (Charlatans, Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks) on “I Can’t Believe that You’re in Love with Me”, and “Cow Cow Boogie”. From there, And If Only takes listeners along a winding musical road filled with yodeling cowboys, a band of Mexican violinists, and spirited Django jazz guitar slingers. The Hot Club Sandwich sound blends reverence for traditions with vibrant acoustic interplay, which shines in the group’s many original compositions, including the title track composed by Ray Wood, “And If Only.”

Purchase And If Only at Djangobooks.com

Below are two videos of our group performing with Dan at DjangoFest Northwest 2007.

Listen to songs from Green Room (2007):

Purchase Green Room at Djangobooks.com