Jive’s collection of mostly all Bruce Van Dyke Tributes to artists who had recently passed has been reassembled for your perusal and listening pleasure. Bruce adds his inimitable professorial cache to every one of these Radio Gems here: https:jiveradio.org/tributes

Bruce Van Dyke’s 27 one-hour episodes of classic underground DJ’ing as only Bruce could do it.

From BVD: GE is a show designed to be your sidekick on a slacker Saturday night, when you’re in your fave comfy chair, in your candlelit listening room, perhaps bedecked in headphones, beverage topped off just right, and you’re ready to see where the magic carpet ride will get to tonight.

>ON DEMAND HERE<

We here at The Jive have been supporting and airing BirdNote on our stations for nearly 15 years. They are currently in their fundraising season and while we know we often ask you for money for us, we also ask for your support for other non-profits. You can click HERE or on the image below to check out our friends supporting our friends of the feathered persuasion.

And if you yearn to be the coolest kid on your block, you can get the BirdNote ringtone for your phone HERE.

…that we don’t play an artist this guy exposed/recorded/presented ~

Chris Strachwitz, the founder of Arhoolie Records, has passed away at the age of 91. He was a German-born American record label executive and record producer who founded Arhoolie Records in 1960, which became one of the leading labels recording and issuing blues, Cajun, norteo, and other forms of roots music from the United States and elsewhere in the world. Strachwitz devoted his life to collecting the ever-changing sounds of regional or vernacular music, first on 78 rpm records and later on tape as played in homes, backyards, front porches, and beer joints. He preserved songs that otherwise would have died along with their artists.  Strachwitz died peacefully at home in Marin County, California, surrounded in his last days by dear friends and family.