Joe explores some f the recordings and careers of his favorite late 1920s-early 30s gal vocalists - MISS LEE MORSE and ANNETTE HANSHAW - a fun variety of recordings by these versatile gals will be played!

With the new year comes some new shellac to share on the American Grooves Radio Hour - join us for an eclectic playlist of Blues, Jazz, Country and more from the original shellac records in Joes' collection

From the Calypso pioneer LIONEL BELASCO, BESSIE SMITH, JACK TEAGARDEN, LYDIA MENDOZA, REDHEADS, LONNIE JOHNSON and more - Joe brings in 2025 with some good-ole-good-ole good ones!

Another year come and gone - out with the old in with older!

We celebrate the end of 2024 with BESSIE SMITH, JOEL SHAW ORCH, GEORGE OLSEN ORCH, BIRMINGHAM QUARTET, BLIND BLAKE and more!

Our fourth annual Christmas broadcast - Rare Christmas themed tunes from Victoria Spivey, Washboard Pete and Harry Reser's Eskimos! Plus excerpts form BING CROSBY's marvelous December 17, 1947 Philco Radio Hour program - right off the original transcription disc!

Part 2 of our exploration and celebration of songs related to trains, railroads, and engineers! - Mississippi John Hurt, Big Bill Broonzy, Blind Alfred Reed and many more will be featured!

Besides Love and Mothers, all things trains, railroads and engineers have crept in and out of folk, jazz, blues and country music for over 100 years! - This and next weeks episode, will feature and explore songs about railroads, railroad disaters, railroad folk lore and so much more - Jimmie Rodgers, Robert Johnson, Carter Family, Carter Brothers & Son, Tiny Parjham Musicians, Calkrence Williams, Lucille Bogan, Meade Lux Lewis and many others will be featire in the two part series!

The early phonograph industry cashed in on recordings they made of many of the Vaudeville performers who were then trouping around the country. Comedy teams, "Coon" Shouters, Ragtime piano players, and every type of novelty you can imagine - on this episode you will hear some of Vaudevilles greats ! From the Howard Brothers ,Georgia Price to the "Female Jolson" Belle Baker and many more

The Bristol Sessions were a series of recording sessions held in 1927 in BRISTOL, TENNESSEE considered by some as the "Big Bang" of Country Music The recordings were made by  Victor Records producer Ralph Peer . Bristol was one of the stops on a two-month, $60,000 trip that took Peer through several major southern cities and yielded important recordings of blues, ragtime, gospel, ballads, topical songs, and string bands. The Bristol Sessions marked the commercial debuts of Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family . On this episode we will expolore some of these recordings.

The Cotton Club was THEE night club in New York City's HARLEM . It was located on 142nd Street and Lenox Avenue from 1923 to 1936, then briefly in the midtown  Theater District until 1940. The club operated during prohibition. Black people initially could not patronize the Cotton Club as guests , but the venue featured many of the most popular black entertainers of the era, This episode presents some of those bands and entertainers ! ANDY PREER, DUKE ELLINGTON, CAB CALLOWAY, NICOLAS BROTHERS, ETHEL WATERS and more!