Bruce Van Dyke

oh, it was a heavy monday morning.  the news was heavy.  the emails were heavy.  the Facebook posts were heavy.  the dumbells were…….well, you get the idea.  it was all a little TOO heavy.  how to lighten things up just a bit?

you know where i’m gonna go.  it was time for some stone cold JIVE.  i’m tellin’ ya…..it always works.  a nice half hour or more of good ole JIVE RADIO will ALWAYS help your head in some unforeseen way…..and maybe in a foreseen way, too!  as dave crosby once said, Music is Love.  we good with that.  think of Jive Radio as one of those big water trucks that soaks dirt roads to keep the dust down……The Jive Radio Truck is filled with musical love, sprayin’ it all over the dang desert, so just behind it once in a while and soak up that good, nourishing spray for a part of your day.  it will do you no harm…….

(so i click on the Jive and what’s the first song i hear?  Death Sound Blues, by Country Joe and The Fish!  what can I say…..it was just a HEAVY MONDAY!)

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………