AMERICAN GROOVES RADIO HOUR hosted by JOE LAURO

This Sheldon Brooks pen tune became the theme song for SOPHIE TUCKER back in the teens and never left the playing field as a jazz standard covered by most every hot band in the land - several versions are played on this episode

Brody Hunt's shellac extravaganza held bi-yearly in the lovely Asheville NC brings a multitude of like minded shellac collectors young and old - here's some of the goodies I scored at the awesome event! ( 2023)

Besides the usual assortment of pre-war goodies, Joe features severa versions of the pre-war perennial AFTER YOU'VE GONE - From Sophie, Bessie and Miff om!

Ralph Rinzler, Alan Lomax, John Cohen and Mike Seeger were just a few of the talent scouts that searched the rural south for forgotten pre-war Bles and Country artists to revive at the ealry Newport Folk Festivals - DOCK BOGGS, MISSISSIPPI JOHN HURT, ROBERT WILKINS to name a few were given new, late era careers...no to mention SKIP JAMES and SON HOUSE!! This episode features them in vibrant, hypnotic their youth!

One of those tunes that most every jazz band played...sort of the Johnny B. Goode of it's day - in this episode we play all kinds of cool pre-1935 versions of.....TIGER RAG!

some of the eclectic music that helped fuel the cultural explosion known as the Harlem Renaissance - From its earliest days with BERT WILLIAMS and Charles Gulpin to Duke and Cab!

We celebrate some jazz's FIRST great bassists - Wellman Braud, Steve Brown Bill Johnson and others will be featured!

The "Big Apple" in song from the Bowery to Harlem1920s-30s - from Fanny Brice and Clayton, Jackson & Durante to Red Nichols! Some fun stuff here for sure

Tunes recorded during Franklin Roosevelts big experiment of getting Great Depression ravaged regular folks back to work - we tap into a slew of topical WPA related Blues, Country and Pop tunes recorded during the dog days of the Great Depression

Joe plays an eclectic selection of pre-war Jazz, Blues, Gospel and Hillbilly pre-war 78s from his collection and the collection of some of his generous friends .