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One of our major folk heroes, Randy Newman, has penned another piece of his classic musical wit. Recorded in his house for a recent appearance on Colbert, he has released it as a fundraising tool. Follow the links and chip in a few clams whydontchya. Check it out >HERE<.

And HERE is another chunk of Randy with a rich one about Trump’s love buddy Putin.

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Randy Newman’s new song, “Stay Away,” a call for social distancing in the fight against COVID-19, is now available to download and stream. Proceeds support the Ellis Marsalis Center for Music ‘s efforts to broaden opportunities for underserved children and young musicians in New Orleans’ Ninth Ward.

Various ways to buy/stream the song: https://smarturl.it/RandyNewmanStayAway

Donate to the Ellis Center: https://www.ellismarsaliscenter.org/donate

Well, the recent GD thread (below) has pushed along some more chatter from friends of the Jive on “The Betty Boards”. HERE‘s a nice piece on Betty from Relix fwd’ed by a Reno Jiver, which led to this good NPR read on Betty herself and some of the women behind The Dead: “Do you want to talk to the man-in-charge, or the woman who knows what’s going on?”.

For a taste of Betty’s work, here’s my pick for a mile-deep GD groove, this chunk of Franklin’s Tower from Buffalo, NY May ’77: https://archive.org/details/gd77-05-09.sbd.connor.8304.sbeok.shnf/gd1977-05-09d1t03.shn

As any Deadhead worth their salt already knows, the good ol’ US Library of Congress has massive archives that include master audio files [Betty’s direct mix in many] for dozens of their live shows. If you want to veer off into spinning around in the black lights while huffing on your bong, this is the place. Patchouli not included: https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead -click on: “Collection”

An interesting set of sessions with the band and Bob Dylan rehearsing pre-tour in San Rafael HERE.

Sister Tiny has put together 2 hours of her favorite John Prine songs for us. They will air this Sunday at noon and Tuesday at 5pm. Please pass the Jive &  join us!

Or, LISTEN NOW:

Tiny’s John Prine Goodbye:

Hour 1:

Hour 2:

And here’s a cute little note we caught on Redding TV newcast from our local sheriff ‘Tex’ Dowdy: