Dondo puts his biscuits on back burner

After 36 some years of baking up his weekly risky biscuits, radio DJ extraordinaire Don Darue spits in the skillet and hangs it up on the wall alongside his spurs and worn out chaps. One of the best, most natural radio personalities to ever hit the airwaves, we wish Don and his beautiful wife Tracy and their kids Lucy and Dash loads of happy sunrises and sunsets as they ride into the future.

It’s my guess that while the Hayseed Hoot moves into the history books, we haven’t heard Don’s dulcet tones on the airwaves for the last time. Who knows. You can follow Don on Facebook and at least for a while on his website at hootradio.net where you can also pick up some mighty spiffy ‘Range Wear’ and other merch.

Best wishes to you Dondo! ~’jeffo’

Either way, Gate Swings!

Among the admirers of Gatemouth Brown’s extraordinary talent were Eric Clapton, Ry Cooder, Carlos Santana, and Frank Zappa. Zappa repeatedly praised Brown’s ability to “do more with a guitar than a monkey with a peanut,” a quote from Lonnie Brooks that Zappa endorsed. If you have four minutes to check out this video, note how ‘Gate’ effortlessly glides through notes while the other boys, great talents themselves, are really workin’ at it.

Despite his immense talent, Gate was largely shunned by commercial radio. Jiveradio is obviously making up for that loss. Gate’s catalog ranges through the Blues, Cajun, Zydeco, Swing, Jazz and Big Band, and we play it all.

We were fortunate enough to present Gate and his band ‘Gates Express’ three times in the Reno Nevada area. First up on our new Gatemouth Brown page, two sets from Gate’s gig at our somewhat notorious roadhouse in Verdi Nevada, Rancho Nevada for a live radio broadcast episode of “The Rancho Radio Hour”. See our Gate page HERE.

NOTE:Listen to all our live concerts through our “Concerts” menu at top of page.

There’s storytellers and raconteurs, and then there’s Arlo

There’s nobody but nobody, that we’ve run across in Folk or any other kind of music, that can tell a story better than Arlo Guthrie. We were fortunate enough to be able to present him twice in the Reno area, with the first being at our roadhouse ‘Rancho Nevada’ in September of ’97, and the second being five years later for a live radio broadcast of the Comstock Radio Hour at John Ascuaga’s Nugget in Sparks Nevada, just a few miles east on the side of the same highway. Both were memorable for different reasons, but first up, the Rancho gig, which captivated the 140 souls fortunate enough to show up. See our ARLO PAGE  HERE.

NOTE:Listen to all our live concerts through our “Concerts” menu at top of page.

Robert does Robert

In a new work by legendary underground cartoonist R. Crumb, he has rendered an image of the legendary guitarist/musician Robert Johnson, from one of only two known photographs of the Blues icon. Released today, it is available in a limited edition (150) signed & numbered serigraph at Crumb’s site HERE. Like most of his work, these collectible images sell out soon after hitting the market. To see other impressive images of Blues artists Crumb has rendered, check out this sold out “Heroes of the Blues” giclée HERE.