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!

Our pal The Punmaster David Gross did another nice job penning a sendoff for the noted Rock ‘n’ Roll luminary Dave Mason in his MusicWire post HERE. Dave leaves us with such a great stack of perfectly crafted classic songs. It’s great to hear them all again, and will be for a long time.

Jerry Jeff Walker was Reno’s favorite Gonzo Compadre and he made a slew of appearances in various venues from the early ’80s into the oughts. It was always fun, and always a party. The first up of several recordings is a solo acoustic show from the Hacienda del Sol circa February ’89, up now on our new Jerry Jeff page [HERE] with more to come in the months ahead, so, as they say in radio…STAY TUNED!

I was fortunate enough to work several shows with the great Doc Watson. The first of which was when his son Merle was still alive, at the Keystone Palo Alto (California) in 1979. The last was at Reno’s Hawkins Amphitheater in October of 2005. There was never a show where he didn’t put the magic in magnificent. Watching him perform and mixing sound for him was always very special, but just sitting across the table from him eating lunch, I always felt I was in the presence of true greatness. And such a true gentleman with a great sense of humor to boot.

I recorded many of the shows and two of his best engagements were at the 140-seat Hacienda del Sol in Reno. Much thanks to Hacienda owner Barry Rivlin for helping me present the man, the icon, Doc Watson. We’re starting out with one of them on our new Doc page here:

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Only a mere 30 years ago, the David Grisman Quintet graced the humble stage at Cotton’s Rancho Nevada, a roadhouse on interstate 80 in Verdi Nevada that was decidedly ahead of, or behind it’s time. Here’s your chance to relive a couple of evenings of great music with the progenitor of “Dawg”, a genre all to itself: https://jiveradio.org/david-grisman/