Hot Club Sandwich

Streaming for the first time today is “La Valse de L’Amoureaux" composed by founding member and guitarist Kevin Connor. Listen with services like Pandora : https://pandora.app.link/sgR3IkmmZKb and Spotify : https://open.spotify.com/album/2CbS0or20rAIoZUmmbi038

Kevin composed a special waltz for his friends' wedding about twenty years ago, and Hot Club Sandwich played it for the first time at the wedding that same day. Its title basically translating to 'Lovers' Waltz', Kevin cites the French valse musette tradition as his primary inspiration, especially the powerful and ornate playing of the Ferret brothers, friends and contemporaries of Django.

From the opening melody, Kevin's fingers fly across the fretboard with attack and sustain, flowing into moments of sweetness as the bridge moves to a bright major key. Matt Sircely's mandolin follows with warmth and depth of tone, Tim Wetmiller sails through the bridge with harmonized doublestops on violin. We've performed this song so many times over the years and we are thrilled that it's finally streaming for the first time, starting today. Thanks to all of you for supporting us in our release of these archival tracks.

Photography by Joshua Sage Photography on the Port Townsend, WA waterfront coincided with the 2003 release of our second album, 'Digga Digga Do'.

Kevin Connor — guitar
Matt Sircely – mandolin
Tim Wetmiller — violin
Greg Ruby Music – guitar
James Schneider – bass
Vince Brown – guitar
Tracy Bigelow Grisman - band portrait
David Lange Studios– engineering & mixing (now Lange Studios)
Orville Johnson– producer
Pandora AMP