The Jive gets Jittery? Well, no. Jitterbuggy!

“Doug The Jitterbug’s Audio Collage” airs Fridays 2-4pm (pst) reprises Suns 10am

Check out Doug’s new DJ page HERE…and join us this Friday (11/12 @ 2pm) for another deep dive into the sonic crazy pool found nowhere else but the here in the Jive-O-Verse.

There’s roots and then there’s ROOTS!

Freeman Vines and his “Hanging Tree” guitars

An astute listener pointed us to a treasure trove of rich, original American musicians: The Music Maker Foundation which helps musicians over 55 living on less than $25,000 a year. Check ’em out and throw ’em some coffee money if you can!

One of the first nuggets we found was this beautiful woman, Precious Bryant, who has a delightful voice and plays a mean ‘Piedmont Blues’ fingerpicking-style guitar. Stay tuned to hear Precious and many others you’ll hear nowhere else but Jiveradio!

WANTED: Roy Orbison’s guitar player—IN RENO…was WHO!?

Ok, well folks, we had a lot of good guesses, but WE DO NOT KNOW who was playing guitar those nights at the Peppermill. We are looking for an EYEWITNESS who can testify to the ID of the gunslinger.

So rumor has it that when Roy Orbison and his band played Reno’s Peppermill Hotel Casino circa 1986-ish, he had a very, VERY famous guitar player in his ensemble. Do any of you Renoites remember that, and who it was?

REWARD!!! ~ REWARD!!! ~ REWARD!!! 

TWO BARS OF KLAP SOAP & 12 CD’S FROM KLAPPY’S PLAYHOUSE!

For information leading to the confirmation of said player.

Send your info to our Special Witness Investigator Gig (S.W.I.G) Unit: mailto:laz@jiveradio.org

“X” demise gets Reno ink, KDAN gets a little in the SF Chron!

[click on images to read more] The 31 year-old KTHX-FM  dropped off the air this week in a public execution announced by it’s owners of 5 whole years, the L.A.-based Lotus Communications, owners of umpteen other commercial stations around the west. Many Jive listeners have long reported the hallowed Reno station had been an anorexic ghost of itself for most of the last half of it’s life, but it remains that Reno lost it’s only commercial station that played any kind of Roots or local music.  Reno News & Review writers have contacted Jive staff for a followup on the ‘alt-radio’ scene in the Northern Nevada area. Stay tuned here for more of that Jive.

And in other news, our little but mighty 10-watt KDAN over in the Tomales (CA) Bay got a little ink in the mighty San Francisco Chronicle recently: