On this New Year’s Eve, Michael Hedges would’ve been 73 years old. He met his end tragically 40 years ago slipping off the edge of the continent in his car one night on the Pacific coast.

Simply saying he was a ‘virtuoso’ would understate the breath and depth of his artistry. He was a talented composer and explored the sonic realms and percussive capabilities of steel string guitars like nobody else before or since.

Michael’s brother and son are currently working on a documentary of his life due out next year, entitled “Oracle”, and both are keeping up an active website with lots more information on the movie and Michael’s life/career at: https://michaelhedges.com/

We presented Michael twice in Reno and you can learn more about that, and listen to his premier engagement at Reno’s Peppermill Hotel on the Michael Hedges page under the “Concerts” tab above.

Barry Rivlin’s 140-seat Hacienda del Sol restaurant/nightclub in Reno Nevada, hosted many historic concerts in the 1980s. This one, John Prine’s first engagement in Reno in 1986, is at the top of that heap.  Listen and read more on our John Prine page under the “Concerts” tab above.

Todd Snider’s June 15, 2001 solo-acoustic performance at Reno’s Wingfield Park Amphitheater as one act in the 2001 “Rollin’ on the River” concert series presented by the Reno News and Review newspaper and produced by Jeff Cotton. Top of video features SF musician Heather Combs in the last song of her set opening for Todd.

This grainy, and rather poor-sounding video nevertheless relates the first set of Todd Snider & The Nervous Wrecks appearance at John Ascuaga’s Nugget in Sparks Nevada on October 3, 2005 for an episode of the Comstock Radio Hour live radio and internet broadcast. Some bonehead in the audience stands in front of the camera for the last five minutes or so.

A complete, fuller-fidelity audio recording of the concert is available on our Todd Snider page under our “Concerts” menu tab above.

 

There were gigs, and then there were special gigs. Leon Redbone was always in the latter category. For the first of a few live concert recordings of those special nights, check out our new Leon Redbone artist page under the ‘Concerts’ menu above.

If you don’t know who Leon was, or would like to know more, check out this 16-minute documentary with interviews with John Prine, John Hammond Jr. and others HERE.

Larry Jon Wilson was one of those musicians that had a mountain of respect amongst his peers but barely broke into the public sphere. Not so here at Jiveradio. We play every lick of Larry Jon we can get our hands on. While doing another dive into his biography I noticed he was featured in the opening of a 1976 documentary with a great roster of some of those very peers; Rodney Crowell, Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark, David Allan Coe, Steve Earle, and others. The 90-minute movie/documentary is a bit disjointed, but the first few minutes of Larry Jon in the studio laying down his “Ohoopee River Bottomland” was worth the four bucks for the rental alone. Also some precious clips of Townes at his most charming, a couple of good ones from Guy Clark and Rodney, and a notable clip from Charlie Daniels, pre- “Devil Went Down to Georgia” fame. Available on YouTube and Amazon.