Ok, so all my topics are not the most enlightened but there are a ton of fun pre-1935 tunes about SAMMY- From Lonnie Johnson to Sam Morgans' Jazz Band! - Which Sammy?..take your pick!

Weather AND music getting hot! - some remarkable recordings recently unearthed from the Louis Franklin collection. Franklin was a cornet player living , performing and collecting in the New York area from the 1930s-50s - his collection recently acquired by American Grooves!

First performed in Chicago nightclubs circa 1925 the tune was immortalized after Louis Armstrong's legendary 1926 version with his Hot Five - it is said he dropped the lyrics and went into an impromptu "scat" verse that se the ealry jazz hounds on fire~ here we talk about the tune and offer several versions of it through the pre-1940 years!

All selection of all kinds of great pre-1940 Jazz , Blues, Country and more from the original shellac records!

This episode includes a segment exploring the legend of "Frankie & Johnny" and several of its musical manifestations on Blues, Country and Jazz recordings from the 1920s-30s

When record companies began recording rural American music for the emerging market of record buying country folk . The birth of County or "Hillbilly" music as they labeled it also brought to the recording microphone some innovators of te guitar - this episode will focus on a few of them - from the raggy flat picking of Riley Puckett, the amazing bass note simplicity of Alfred Karnes to the now forgotten virtuosity of Perry Bectel - tune in for some of hillbilly guitars early masters

As an active collector new records arrival most every week. Joe shares some of these "new arrivals" on this episode, Like coming over for an old fashioned listening session!

Crockett-Ward & His Boys got it right! ( for me any thing past Jerry Garcia's death in 1995 fell into the "Sucker" category..but that's just ME!!) - Let's further explore the deep roots of tunes recorded by the institution known as THE GRATEFUL DEAD. Why? - because THEY were the first to introduce me to all things musical Americana - Of course, I went backwards from there but so did they! We Bid You Goodnight, Stealin', CC Rider - we will play the originals of tunes famously played by the Dead as well as tunes they flirted with throughout their long career

Across the pre-war genres songs of mother ranked as the number two topic ( love being number 1!) So, on this Mothers' Day we celebrate Moms, Mothers, Mammy's and Mamas! - From mother songs of Al Jolson to sentimental country songs by Jimmie Rodgers, spirituals by Elder Lonnie McIntorsh, Washington Phillips and many more!

A mixture of many great recordings - from Valverts' Creole Band recorded in Paris circa 1930 to some hot Hawaiian sides and much more- the wonders of pre-1940 78s!