We will be experiencing occasional but brief dropouts of our stream in the next few days. They should not last more than a few minutes, but you may have to reconnect your device. Sorry for the trouble.

There’s nobody but nobody, that we’ve run across in Folk or any other kind of music, that can tell a story better than Arlo Guthrie. We were fortunate enough to be able to present him twice in the Reno area, with the first being at our roadhouse ‘Rancho Nevada’ in September of ’97, and the second being five years later for a live radio broadcast of the Comstock Radio Hour at John Ascuaga’s Nugget in Sparks Nevada, just a few miles east on the side of the same highway. Both were memorable for different reasons, but first up, the Rancho gig, which captivated the 140 souls fortunate enough to show up. See our ARLO PAGE  HERE.

NOTE:Listen to all our live concerts through our “Concerts” menu at top of page.

In a new work by legendary underground cartoonist R. Crumb, he has rendered an image of the legendary guitarist/musician Robert Johnson, from one of only two known photographs of the Blues icon. Released today, it is available in a limited edition (150) signed & numbered serigraph at Crumb’s site HERE. Like most of his work, these collectible images sell out soon after hitting the market. To see other impressive images of Blues artists Crumb has rendered, check out this sold out “Heroes of the Blues” giclée HERE.

Anybody remember supergroup “Annie & The Chickens”? Free milkweed seeds and WAIT stickers to the first 6 listeners who correctly identify the band’s lineup.

“All Night Filling Station Man” by Annie & The Chickens:

If you’ve got a spare half hour (to watch some TV), John Oliver did a nice job last winter examining the realm of some ‘community’ radio stations, including a slice about our friends at KWSO, a tribal station in the same territory (Madras, Oregon) as our flagship KJIV.

And if you’d like to read for 20 minutes or so on the subject, here is a recent story from radio industry mag Radio World reporting on the status of the non-commercial radio landscape since Trump killed off Big Bird.

There is some hope on the horizon for some, but we here at Jiveradio have never had the benefit of federal (or any other kind of grant) monies, and continue to rely on just you, our dear listeners!