This grainy, and rather poor-sounding video nevertheless relates the first set of Todd Snider & The Nervous Wrecks appearance at John Ascuaga’s Nugget in Sparks Nevada on October 3, 2005 for an episode of the Comstock Radio Hour live radio and internet broadcast. Some bonehead in the audience stands in front of the camera for the last five minutes or so.

A complete, fuller-fidelity audio recording of the concert is available under our “Concerts” menu tab above.

 

There were gigs, and then there were special gigs. Leon Redbone was always in the latter category. For the first of a few live concert recordings of those special nights, check out our new Leon Redbone artist page under the ‘Concerts’ menu above.

If you don’t know who Leon was, or would like to know more, check out this 16-minute documentary with interviews with John Prine, John Hammond Jr. and others HERE.

Larry Jon Wilson was one of those musicians that had a mountain of respect amongst his peers but barely broke into the public sphere. Not so here at Jiveradio. We play every lick of Larry Jon we can get our hands on. While doing another dive into his biography I noticed he was featured in the opening of a 1976 documentary with a great roster of some of those very peers; Rodney Crowell, Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark, David Allan Coe, Steve Earle, and others. The 90-minute movie/documentary is a bit disjointed, but the first few minutes of Larry Jon in the studio laying down his “Ohoopee River Bottomland” was worth the four bucks for the rental alone. Also some precious clips of Townes at his most charming, a couple of good ones from Guy Clark and Rodney, and a notable clip from Charlie Daniels, pre- “Devil Went Down to Georgia” fame. Available on YouTube and Amazon.

There was probably no artist that we worked with and presented more than Dan Hicks. We’ll start off with the recording of his engagement as “Dan Hicks and Deux Messieurs” at Barry Rivlin’s Hacienda del Sol on April 29, 1986

ON THE NEW DAN HICKS PAGE UNDER THE “CONCERTS” MENU TAB ABOVE.

 

Our beloved Reno-town made a bit of a national spotlight a couple of days ago on the Jive’s Climate Connections segment (which airs M-F@4a&p). We caught it in time to make it available here for you lovely dwellers of the Truckee Meadows and beyond. Can’t remember a tilt-up building or slab the Washoe County commissioners didn’t approve. Growth at all costs. Drill baby drill. Got 90 seconds? LISTEN HERE: