One Talented Mouse

We’re happy to hear of this new project (built by friends of The Jive) and we will be playing lots of it in the months ahead. If you love the music like we do, please check out the songs and the musicians and get your own copy to share with friends and support the worthy cause they are supporting HERE: Blue Rose Music

An new album honoring psychedelic poster and album artist Stanley Mouse who drew the face on rock music.

Contemporary artists performing music from the bands featured in Stanley’s iconic artwork since the 60s; from original Avalon Ballroom and Fillmore posters to album covers by the Grateful Dead, Journey and all the great groups including Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, Cream, The Beatles, Big Brother and the Holding Company, Bo Diddley, Sir Douglas Quintet, Moby Grape, Howlin’ Wolf, etc.

12 new tracks by Chuck Leavell, Leftover Salmon, Charlie Musselwhite, Nicole Atkins, Shawn Sahm & The Tex Mex Experience, Junior Brown, Nicki Bluhm & The Gramblers, Poor Man’s Whiskey, The Mother Hips, Dan “Lebo” Lebowitz, Jason Crosby, and the Pimps of Joytime.

Featuring the music of Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, Big Brother and the Holding Company, The Beatles, Howlin’ Wolf, Journey, Cream, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Bo Diddley, Sir Douglas Quintet, Moby Grape, and Stanley Mouse.

Liner notes by San Francisco music critic and author Joel Selvin.

Self-portrait by Stanley Mouse.

100% of proceeds will benefit the Blue Rose Foundation, dedicated to providing preschool scholarships to underprivileged children.

Diane finds rare Jive music fossil

A few weeks back our own ‘Di’, of “Di’s Jive Cafe”, found this very obscure musical fossil, a Bobby Darin-penned & arranged little ditty from 1969, titled “Jive”. None of us had ever seen or heard it before. While lyrically sparse, this cutey just fits a certain mood of comfort and sinuosity that we hope you, our dear listeners, find similar to the Jive itself. 

This track seems to be only on the album “Songs From Big Sur”, which is where he understandably took a year hiatus after not only campaigning for, and witnessing the assassination of, his friend Bobby Kennedy, but also learned that his mother was his sister and the woman he grew up thinking was his mom, was his grandmother. YIKES! More here:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Darin


“Jive” – by Bobby Darin

Starin’ at the sun
Been stoned since half past none
Jive’s alive from nine to five my main man

I got my paper rolled
I slowed down growin’ old
Jive’s alive from nine to five my main man

I got a cloudy-day woman to make my bed and cook for me
When I’m gone a year too long she knows not to look for me
Cause I’ll be back when evenin’ comes
Sleepin’ through them crashin’ drums
Jive’s alive from nine to five my main man

I got a cloudy-day woman to make my bed and cook for me
And when I’m gone a year too long she knows not to look for me
Cause I’ll be back when evenin’ comes
Sleepin’ through them crashin’ drums
Jive’s alive from nine to five my main man

Jive’s alive from nine to five my main man
Oh, an-nine to five is so much jive my main man
Jive’s alive from nine to five my main man

you are HERE…wait…where?

Picture this – you’re sitting in a waiting room in some commercial building you’ve never been in. Then all of a sudden the lights go out and you hear a bunch of commotion and sirens outside. You smell smoke. You break out your cell phone’s flashlight, only to see this handy map on the door:

QUICK! >>> FOLLOW THOSE ARROWS! >>>

The Man In The Big Hat…is buyin’ !?

More clips from the crypt- from a couple of visits to Reno for Jerry Jeff Walker circa late-80’s.

Reno & JJW got along famously.


Please Pass The Jive!

2 pieces of Leon Redbone from the WayBack Machine

Filmed by KOLO TV8’s Nancy Jordan at Reno’s original Hacienda del Sol (S. Virginia St.) circa late’ ’80’s.

And here is the same ensemble Leon had at the Hacienda, only a few weeks later in Burbank on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson:

Leon was always Cool, and always sold out.