Daschle is on a Western swing that has also included a fund-raiser for Sen.

CNN: McCain, Daschle to meet this weekend

So if there was no westward expansion, then we wouldn't have, say, Texas fiddling and Texas-style Western Swing and other styles of Americana.

NPR: Mark O'Connor's Symphonic America

He got his musical start in 1953 playing lead guitar in a country-and-western swing band and became a full-time professional musician in the 1960s.

BBC: Doc Watson, folk and bluegrass guitarist, dies aged 89

This far in, it's obvious what to expect: pickin'-party songs, bar-band basics enlivened by loose, easygoing solos that traverse Western swing and Stardust-era Willie Nelson.

NPR: Weary but Playful, The Little Willies 'Roll On'

West Coast Swing, East Coast Swing Authentic Country Western have never Been done!

FORBES: Four Reasons Why Dancing with the Stars is Losing Viewers

With the mid-term elections only a few months away, he hit the campaign trail in late August for a more than 5, 000-mile swing into the western states that had captured his imagination as a young man.

FORBES: Obama Misreads Roosevelt In Speaking In A Rooseveltian Tone

Western Europe has traditionally a higher seasonal swing favoring Christmas quarters than other regions.

FORBES: Handset Market Threatened by European Turmoil