AMERICAN GROOVES RADIO HOUR hosted by JOE LAURO

All things GEORGIA! songs about and musicians from and recorded there! Luke Hignight Ozark Strutters, Barbecue Bob, Blind Willie and more!

The great crash of 29' brought on a slew of tunes related to the Stock Market- from jazz to some hysterical comedy and topical recordings - we will play a bunch of them here!

From his first traveling gig wi the territory band THE BUFFALODIANS to his earliest Harlem and Hollywood years - at the cotton Club and MGM! The songs and singing of HAROLD ARLEN

From Joe Venuti and Stuff Smith to the Mississippi Sheiks - a journey through the early records of jazz via fiddle!

Originally broadcast as a Bix Birthday Bash -we will just call this episode a celebration of the short life of one of Jazz's true early legends

Salvadore Massaro was born in Philadelphia in 1902 -picking up the banjo in the early 1920s by the early 1930s' he became the most sought after recording guitarist - both for jazz and offering accompaniments to a slew of pop and blues singers alike - it all ended to fast- by 1933 he was gone, the victim of a botched tonsillectomy! But he left behind hundreds of fine recordings - we will play some highlights!

Many American Jazz musicians travelled across the ocean to Europe and beyond from the earliest years of recording into through the 1930s ( the era we cover here on American Grooves) This episode explores some fine Jazz recorded on the continent!

Victor labels budget BLUEBIRD imprint recorded quite extensively in Charlotte North Carolina in the mid-1930s - Iconic "firsts" happened there ( Bill Monroe for one!) and 100s of Hillbilly and some dance and jazz sides by local bands were preserved. We will re-discover some of Charlotte's finest!

time for the kids to head back to school - time to take a deep dive listening to some of the remarkably HOT recorded College bands of the 1920s - Yale Collegians, Texas Troubadours, Princeton Triangle Club babd and more!

Beat the heat with some cool pre-war blues, jazz, country and vaudeville from the 1920s-30s -