Around the time of his 25th birthday, Hines was asked to lead a full-size danceband at the Grand Terrace, a new ballroom being launched in Chicago, and there he would remain in residence (except for the occasional tour) until the end of the big-band era in 1945.
It sounds like a stretch for aband that specializes in klezmer, the clarinet based dance music of Eastern European Jews to record a whole album of Woody Guthrie songs.