Bruce Van Dyke

So here’s a sample of the BVD Bucket for this wednesday 1-23 from 830 to 930.  see if these tunes could float your so-called boat…..

Little Feat–A Apolitical Blues

Al Green–Love Gone to Waste

Allman Bros.–Revival

ELO–Showdown

James McMurtry–Too Long in The Wasteland

Steely Dan–Hey 19

Sheryl Crow–In The Dark

some cool Putumayo world music from east africa (i didn’t have my phone to shazam it)

The Dead–Dire Wolf

Paul Simon–Dazzling Blue

so we know that song and artist identification can be very important at times, especially when you hear a good one on JR.  for those of you who listen online, Klappy is in charge of i.d., and most of the time, the ole boy does a fine job (Klappy is the little smiling radio you see on the right side of the home page).  but sometimes, the Klapster gets hit with a digital speed bump of some sort, and he goes down for a while.  we will get him back on the job ASAP, so that you can easily check song title and artist.  BUT…..this is also a good time to remind you, as we like to do occasionally, that the free app called SHAZAM kicks total ass on this identification front, and we highly recommend it to all Jive Radio listeners who give a poop about song/artist i.d.  SHAZAM is at any app store, downloads very quickly, is free, and it works MOST of the time.  you just hold the phone up to the speaker, and within a few seconds, SHAZAM will tell you Song Title, Artist, and maybe more, like a pic of the album cover.  SO IT’S VERY HELPFUL.  especially for us, with our streamlined automated 21st century approach to broadcasting (read LOW BUDGET)…..SHAZAM covers for us A LOT.  and is really a great accessory and aid to your enriched enjoyment of the musical Shangri-La that is…….JR!

so here’s an hour from bruce’s bucket of schizoclectic FUNk.  from 830am to 930.  does this kind of JIVE work for you?

Beach Boys–til i die

Paul Mac–mull of kintyre

Little Feat–rock n roll doctor

Nancy Griffith–is there anybody out there?

R. Carlos Nakai–extremely cool navajo flute thing

Bonnie Raitt–gamblin man

Eric Clapton–a nice unplugged blues jam

Cream–outside woman blues

Beau Jocques–party down

REM–find the river

Tom Petty–learning to fly

Blind Faith–well all right

Fleetwood Mac–tusk

and on and on and on and on………

in the previous post, we took note of the passing of the great chicago bluesman Otis Rush, who departed in late September at age 83. well, there has been another death of note in the world of american rock n soul music…..the king of the swamp, Tony Joe White, done made his move to that great polk salad patch in the sky!  tony joe was 75 and at home in nashville on october 24th when his heart just sorta called it quits. best known for his still great single Polk Salad Annie, and the author of the smash Rainy Night in Georgia, Tony Joe was one solid cool cat who made and wrote lots of good ones in addition to those two famed hits.

a fun recent appearance by tony joe happened in 2014, when he appeared on dave letterman’s show to do polk salad annie, backed up by  none other than the foo fighters.  after the song, dave exclaimed, “holy cow!  if i was this guy, you could all kiss my ass….and i mean that!”

other super cool tunes by tony joe include Roosevelt and Ira Lee, Oak Grove Louisiana on a Saturday Night, As The Crow Flies, Even Trolls Love Rock n Roll, and Mother Earth.

if you get a chance soon, do yourself a favor and listen to a half hour of both Otis and Tony Joe via whatever music service you favor (pandora, spotify, etc.)……it’ll do ya no harm!  (for Otis, try his Right Place, Wrong Time cd or the live So Many Roads.  and for Tony Joe, just hit up his Best Of cd, which has a ton of goods)