Hamburg based band Texas Lightning was just chosen by popular vote to represent Germany at the international Eurovision Easy Listening competition this year. There's quite a number of German C&W bands. Texas Lightning being one of the better ones became famous for C&W covers of well-known Pop classics like 'Kiss', 'Dancing Queen' or 'Like A Virgin'. On video they're a bit like a drag show with Krauts impersonating Honkies. Also the male singers' German accents will probably doom them to an existence as a mere novelty band, although they're actually quite good muscially . Their female lead at least shows no signs of teutonic mangling of consonants and even a bit of authentic twang.
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Listen to and watch "Texas Lightning" homepage.
Watch the the video for their version of "Like A Virgin" on a German "C & W fansite.
Get their album from German amazon
Check out the official Eurovision Contest website and try to get the videos in the multimedia lounge going.
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