AMERICAN GROOVES RADIO HOUR hosted by JOE LAURO

from the late 1920s-mid 1930s country and blues singers often sang about riding the rails - Hoboing if you will

From Jimmie Rodgers to Louis Armstrong we will play some of the songs of the open road!

Continuing our series of "the rarest of the rare" pre-war Blues, Jazz, Country and Gospel recordings, this following Pete Whelan's legendary "78 QUARTERLY" magazine brings us to the likes of Skip James, Duke Ellington's Washingtonians , Ewing Brothers, Charlie Patton ( as Elder Hadley) and more !

some tunes about San Francisco : Memphis Minnie & Kansas Joe, LITTLE BROTHE MONTGOMERY, THE GEORGIANS, CLARA SMITH, Al Jolson and more!

A mix of genre bending fun with Seven Foot Dilly , the forgotten 1933 hot tune YEAH MAN written by Noble Sissle and J. Russell Robinson is featured by Fletcher Henderson Orchestra and the Sizzlers, Riley Puckett, Fred Rich & His Orchestra, Gid Tanner & The Skillet Lickers, and Delta Bluesman Ishman Bracey join the fun

In memory of that fateful night of April 14, 1912 we play several topical songs recorded in the 1920's remembering that night. Rabbit Brown, Dixon Brothers, Ernest Stoneman and others

From a 1933 version or Irving Berlin's classic "Easter Parade" from his show AS THOUSANDS CHEER to Easter related tunes by ELDER LONNIE McINTORSH, DA COSTA WOLTZ, REV MOSLEY & HIS CONGREGATION and more

A nice crop of tunes to keep you warm! - FLETCHER HENDERSON & HIS ORCHESTRA, SAMMY PRICE & HIS 4 QUARTERS, UNCLE JIMMY THOMPSON, MISSISSIPPI SHEIKS, SISTER ROSETTA THARPE and more!

The Great Depression did not begin on Black Friday October 1929 - it began in the rural farm areas a few years before - the price of raising cotton and beef was beginning to exceede the prices the farmers could get- Thus a call for "Farm Relief" and i 1933 "Socialist" President Franklin D. Roosevelt, with his New Deal came to the rescue..literaly saving the farm - we will play some cool topical recordings address just this issue ( plus the usual assortment of other cool stuff!)

Blues, jazz and country guitarists generally played traditional six sting models. The twelve string version was rarely used but a handful of players championed it - This episode includes a segment where we play some tracks by Barbecue Bob, Lonnie Johnson and Leadbelly - all twelve string masters!

Several versions of this classic folk tune are played - Dixon Brothers and Buell Kazie as well as some fantastic original pre-ww2 Jazz blues and country 78s