Foolin' 'Round -- in these tumult-u-ous times...

  while hanging aroundthis morning, I was listening to some old seldom scene traditional kind of music that brought me home to a place which made me think about all these things going on in our lives...  you know, and yet some people seem to think that elections and coverage of elections is the most important thing in our lives right now...  and it maybe...    I don't know... but it made me contemplate about how in the grand scheme of things that coverage of Elections is quite frivolous with back and forth chatter, the "late breaking news",  pun-dents and etc., etc.... it goes on and on with candidates not really significantly speaking to issues, concerns and the like....  heck it is one rally cry after another and a promise upon promise the cannot be applied or kept......  so that is why  I spin my recordsand try to stay A-political and A-religious to have my radio play or say...    I mean, I just don't know alot and I don't have all the answers, and I don't want to throw my thoughts out on someone else's, or give an opinion that has no meaning but to myself.....   so  I often recall the old John Stewart song, where he says " I got a church right here inside me..  suits me quite alright..."  and then, in the background you can hear the choir girls singing slowly "glory, glory,  hallelujah, i  have seen the light" in a beautiful Baptist kinda Southern style...    John, if you were alive now what would you say...   he was with the old campaigner on that "mohther country" train with Bobby Kennedy,  and gave it his all...   there that night when Bobby got shot..    it affected him as it hurt all of us back then.....  I now think about politics and a different light for some reason, having seen what happened of the years and to the challenges and the perseverance of people over I'll kinds of diversity.... it is amazing and is really what counts...   just as music counts... it affects us, cleanses us, heals us and helps us focus on what matters to each of us....      so hope you enjoy today's Juke Joint show.....   www.kunr.org  3pm PST ti 5pm.....   hang in there gators -- lator -- jim

Friends, old friends and so much more....

  yeah, when you think about it...   we got family, we have friends....    sometimes friends are family or vice-versa...   where am I going with this, well you know this week Facebook had a thing about friends day...  so got me to thinking I haven't done a friendly kind of show in a while, or something about friends, so when I went armed with my trusty library of songs and pulled out every kind of song about friends, old friends, and also songs played with friends, and ended up with who knows what else....    it's just a joy to do that kind of stuff and makes me think as I just got back from Cuba and travel with some really good friends, Steve  and Linda Pax, and what a great time we had..      Both Crystal and I, and just the whole experience was was wonderful to share with friends....     and maybe that's what we do through life...    for sharing our lives with friends, family, and loved ones....  anyways its grand to share songs with you friends..  and hope you enjoy...   going to be a kind of good show on a sunny day today but maybe the song about old friends will also warm you up a bit to make a phone call and say hello old friend, how you doing or something along that line....    

hope you get to tune in  to the juke joint on kunr.org every Saturday from 3 to 5... kunr reno and kncc elko...    thanks folks and see you down the road

cars, trains, boats & areoplanes or travelin' with charlie....

it's that kinda show today... bout transport vehicles and more.... prep'd the show while reading again, "travels with charlie" more than app-a-pro for the cuba trip i just got back from today...   more on that lator....   anyways as john stieibeck said.. "you don't take a trip, a tip takes you"..  so hang in there friends while onboard...       jimbos juke joint on today at www.kunr.org or kunr fm in reno, kncc in elko  3-5pm pst...

"TO DAVID & MARTIN & FREEDOM & JUSTICE"

i was thinkin' 'bout last year and where i was about this time (anza borrego desert camping with my son) while  I'm laying aound...   i'm just icing my arm on my shoulder, since I broke a bone up there and an elbow while skydiving off a ladder onto some really hard cement while getting the house prepared for the advancing el nino (as well as, to surprise my loved one)...   anyways,  the recovery is painful and i've got to bear down on physical therapy and get results...  so anyways, as i ice up, I'm sitting here  thinking I've got  some shows in the can, because despite this arduous recovery,  I'm headed to Cuba  in a week..    i have three weeks of shows to kind of put together.. etc.,etc...   the Martin Luther King weekend,  the following weekend, and the following, because you never know..     that's three shows ,6 hours of music on air,  2 hours per show to do some research and related tangents,  another couple of hours to put it together and that's a lot of time in my week..    but what is time anyway..  there a lot to do before I go..      I guess  you know  I've been doing this a long time, but i am point man of procrastination..    been doin' it almost as  as long as the crazy baldhead, Mr Don Daru...  well maybe not quite, but he was on the radio way back when I was just a young punk moving into Reno..   picking up the vibe getting on as a host for folk bluegrass and beyond at KUNR..   with some really good folks and having some good times..  there's some people still around like Eric Swansick and his cowboys theme..   good memories, and there's so many people you meet in music and doing this kind of gig..  though you know,  I kinda wish I could meet each and every one that really enjoys the show, cares about it, and keeps me posted now and then.. a big thanks for that and I try to keep up with it all..   it's not an onslaught of things, but you got your daily life...    so back to when I think of all the hours I gotta put it in before I go to Cuba in Miami and points beyond and packing and all the other things about life in between..  what does matter and what's important, as i pull forward to I get the music together, get those shows online, and get KUNR the  content  to play..   because I would like to be there, and also to be out in the audience listening..   the connection with you all..  yeah that's the thing about radio,  because you get stuck behind a mic, or tucked into your little voice of trying to put the music together,  you just don't get enough contact with those digging the music..    they're groovin' in the sound,  maybe sometimes dancing along or adding something to their day,  hopefully giving them some thought for things that they may need to do or have contemplated on...    I want to do music that does that to me, and refreshes my mind, gets me going,  helps me through my day, and on my way.....  so with that, I'll be on my way..  wishing you all the great music and love that I can possibly share  through dis funky little radio show  called Jimbo's Juke Joint & Acoustic Roadhouse Cafe,  on kUNR FM, Reno and KNCC FM, Elko  thanks folks for give me a listen, and I'll see you down the road...  Lator-Gators  

my buddy, Stevie had a birthday this week..   congrats big guy..

A Brand new year....

the first new year show today on the juke joint...   from dowtown and related new years celebration to lions and jungles...   it's a wild ride, just like life is...  so a belated happy new year to ya all..   and wishing you all the best in song and life in general... and forgive the bum if you can, now and then...       lator  --  jimbos juke joint 3-5pm pst -- online listening at www,kunr,org and/or KUNR & KNCC FM in Nevada..

Don't it feel like Christmas

When I was about eight or thereabouts, I wrote a poem that i was so proud of..   it went like this:

 don't it feel like Christmas                               in the summer and in the spring               don't it feel like Christmas                        every time you do a good thing  ....      

and i'm sure there was more...  but those first few lines were ingrained in my memory throughout the many years.   i guess by now its part of the foundation of my spirit in this holiday season.   and,  as I think about the times were living in it helps to share such experiences..   kinda like the great tradition that my friends, Scott and  Stacey Fitzpatrick have established as a seasonal ritual (they not only do christmas, but st patty's day and any such festivity that calls for singin' and partyin')   Last night, they once again gathered friends and an assortment of music teachers together for food, libations and the singing of Christmas songs..    what grand good Christmas cheer sharing the spirit together..   also the teachers were exceptionally lively and really glad that they were there off work this being their last school day and assorted related event accomplished (ie: chior, asseblies, performances, etc., etc.)   they really let their hair down...    oh to share that feeling...

so this week, we  venture to share the spirit at Roadhouse cafe by hanging out with friends and hopefully putting a smile on your face and possibly sharing that smile and all that good love at this time of the year....     so with that being said I'll sign off here with the wishing you happy holidays, Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah...   as well as --  Lator Gators  

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As luck will have it

  sometimes you just get lucky...    and last night was one of those nights..   ran into Patrick Quilter,  the amazing truly eclectic fellow of  designeer fame (Quilerlabs, amps,QCS Audio Products)..    anyways,  he is just an amazing musician as well, playing his vintage dual lap steel in the Dagger go-to bar at Don the Beachcomber (http://www.donthebeachcomber.com/)  with this young virtuoso kind of Dick Dale guitarist with this name-dropping surf band behind them...  it absolutely sl;ayed me and everyone attending the other grand Tiki Room concert with Moonsville Collective,Dead Winter Carpenters and Sam Outlaw, all who also performed just extraodinarily...   it just made me realize again that supporting live music and being part of that whole environment is so important..    I just wanted a night out to clearmy spirits with all the kinds of worldly things going on..    I was able to drift away and leave the 24 hour continue-us news cast disruption to my life, and the worrisome name calling dribble of bullshit, or whatever you want to call it (politics)...   And, I was able to get lost in the music,, with some good friends, and spend time with them sitting at our table enjoying music, new people and the surroundings while taking a break whenever we could to run out to the bar room to hear such additional extraordinary sounds..     we were all in a little spaceship of time innoculating ourselves from other dramas and true tragedy..     I laughingly remember weeks before chatting with Joe Ely there, and his entertaing and vivid comment while sipping our beers and he chucked,  "well, I've never played a  real tiki bar before, and this was an eventful first"..    

so here i go with one of my little lively rants,  for us to get out now and then, and get away from that TV tube, the troubles in our minds, or whatever going on in the world and just getting off that couch and going out and seeing some live music... and maybe put a little something in the tip jar (christmas token or whatever encouragement) and supporting live music...  because there's character out there, and it sure will possibly liven' your spirits..  it's a wonderful opportunity and a great time at we live in..   we just gotta remember the good things and cherish those and keep them coming so that with the spirit of Christmas and everything else, we can shine on and do the good work we need to do...  

i  should mention that today shows going to be kind of a jingle jangle pre-christmas bangle out there for you on kunr.org..     kind of threw it together n hopes of getting ready for the season and for sure next week I'll be  more subdued with additional thoughts of a mistle-toe and other such delights..   but meanwhile, thanks a lot for giving a read here and when you get a chance to listen to the juke joint & acoustic roadhouse cafe @ kunr.org.    most graciously appreciate -----  later Gators

It's a wonderland out there

you bet that it's a wonderland out there...    and now, when I think of greatness, along the line of outstanding trios like the Jimi Hendrix crew, or the supergroup known as the cream, AND CSN...  i now add to the play,e Carolyn Wonderland and her mates..   singin' and playin'  high-performance guitar and lap steel combined with keyboards and kit drums, you now have an unpretentious super power of beyond blues and rock and psy-co-delic phenomin-ah..   i was in awe of her incredible angelic sweetheart and devilish vocal strengths that switchblade in  heartfelt blast of nuclear power to match her extro-ordinary guitarship mastery...    at the museum last night, she captured the audience and took all soraing with her complete range of emotional artistry..   we, stunned kids in the candy shop, drooling with delight to every stacatto and octaval note, blending with the penetrating rhyme of her guitar and to the compliment of the stellar accomplices pulsating to subliminal chordal phrases..    just spectacular...    so if you get a chance and Wonderland comes to your neighborhood take full advantage and see her live, although, don't hesitate to download or buy her product because she is the real spirit of misical gratness and spirit..     

Oh what a night --

had a ramble and blurb all worked up..   but got lost in cyber space and related drain pipes..   pretty mad bout myself for letting an oversight like that happen..   so none the less i will move on.....  

No, you go first!

it's going to be just one of those Saturdays, things come to mind like this picture above done by a great former student of mine in 3D, though missing a steering column but none-the-less, Jake Johannsen did a pretty cool  3D video on these characters, who as coming up to a stop sign, one tells other to go, no you just go, and it just keeps looping around and around all the characters at the four way stop..   until frustration sets in along with disbelief!!   kind of reminds me of life itself and of sometimes the way I go about trying to put my show together....     no, you go first...

and, as i always say --- anyways, you can I have your way but it's okay to give way, on radio and in the course of life..     i realize i aint no behinf the air-wave pulpit personality...   naw, just me presenting some tunes that I somehow threw together to remind me of today and the age we live in, but then i get the turkey and mom an family and food playlist going for the second hour..    it is where i'm getting ready for Thanksgiving by talking about home, people, pies and those kinds of things that mean a lot to so many of us, as i grab i grab a few few turkeys and pumpkins to the mix..    so it's just gonna be one of those Saturdays that come to mind where i want to say --- no, you go first...  because the listener which is so important, may truly listen and dig it...   

so thanks in advance for just reading this and giving the juke joint a listen now and then...   and may you have a grand thankx-given..     hang in there folks and later Gators Jimbo

Juke joint journeys

  I've met this fellow the Newport pier in the beach and after. Of time just asked if I could take his picture why is the side of the fish house with the grain in the grid of the boards and is colorful attire holiness colorful holiness attire deep thoughts in his mind and much much more you with that picture I am reminded of the times 4 time I take to get the grain in the grid and the colorful attitude in the Mike radio show or in the music that I play the wonderful experience in the morning it when you I'm so lucky I am so luckily to be able to do this what a treat every week in 2 hours the craziness I guess you could say I never know what I'm going to play just cards and gifts I thought goes into it in color is going to envision and ideas and things that make up the basics the juke joint format I don't know I love doing it so thanks to those you that listen go see you that care I certainly appreciate it

Songs about veterans soldiers and heroes

  well veterans days this week in honor of those great men and women who served in our service of the Army Air Force Coast Guard Navy in foreign services as well as any agency that was put together to projecting and serve in the homeland of the United States of America why not anyway Today Show is filled with some great music honoring those the contributions past present and even even in the future and give it thought about the honor these people have given it is to their great service that I put together some songs this afternoon with that a touch of thoughtfulness caring concern and in true honor in regards to with the contributions these folks have made for this country and actually the world at large world at large hope you enjoy playlist Villa jim burke just wink.com under playlist

Nevada Day songs

I remember when we first moved to Nevada , the kids came home from school excited as could be because they had just learned the great state of Nevada had a holiday on the same day is Halloween..  and it will be a holiday playlist today the holiday of Nevada songs about the van for Nevada by Nevadans places and everything else thrown in...... just wishing you a great Nevada holiday out there folks

Beer, beer, beer, and then there's October fest. .

Juke Joint 3pm To 5PM @ kunr.org Saturday. ..

So I thought.. before I fell off the ladder... it's October and I am missing beer buds, brewery folks, beer makers and the like.. 

 So in their honor I illicit response to nuthin but a beer crazy show... 

 Bout beer, 4 beer and everything associated 2 beer...  the belly wampin Carbo infested and ingested wonder drug..   making folks a gush of talkative brilliance in a society of lost compassion..  it is the fulcrum of friendliness in life, music and points beyond..

  So I honor this sacred sacrament with the October fest show this Saturday  10-24-1.. hopefully you pour or pull a draw, enjoy and pass it on....  toy friends and luved ones...  enjoy and toast away..

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"from a fool like me... today's KUNR's show's a treat, but the grand show is lator..

That's when my dear friend, Joe Craven (Crave-Fun) plays a gig at Lakeridge Golf Course Restaurant with "the Trio" at 7:30 in reno ....  a don't miss event reno--ites....

anyways, i'd be there but for a family party, but still managed to put together a tidbit of a show with plenty of new material, some excellent John Prine covers, surf uke and a full set of "a fool" kinda like me songs......   and, when you don't take yerself seriously, well you know what happens.....  its that way alot these days, when the short and sweet of it ends up being the little things, those you love and those things you love to do....  like i do, turnin' people on to a wide road or is it highway of music...   be it labeled as roots or americana, mixed with bluegrass and blues and assorted jelly's for the belly....    as my dad would say, "there's only two kinds of music --- you either like it or ya don't".......    so, i hope you like it and keep coming back for more....    lator -- and, have crave-fun with joe if you get to go..... 

radio, radio, radio.. & more thinkin' of you all..

just a radio show this week folks...   bout radio for radio and because of radio..  songs dedicated and including "radio" in it....  because we all have alot of choices out there... tune in and never tune out should be the saying....  music that makes you feel different, changes yer perspective... it was so well done so many years by radio...   so in it's rightful honor i dedicate my efforts this week to "radio" ..  may it live long and be part of your life enhancements....  which is why i play what i do....  so go ahead and turn up the radio, recorder and life in general...   lator gators........  jimbosjukejoint @  kunr.org  pst 3-5pm saturday Oct 10-10-15...

Fundraising, Pledging My time & Collect-a-bulls......

The Juke Joint today is gonna be on 'one of those days"...  special as they are, providing the impetus for assisting our public radio station in its grand efforts to stay alive.... oh yes that includes payin' bills, keeping the lights on, as well as towers, repeaters, internet and such....  plus staff and space and goods and materials and all the stuff to run a good house (station that is, same thing folks).....    Anyways, i pulled out some old tidbits to round out the forum and shoutouts to all to the cause.....  but my motivation in all this is thinkin' about the friends, the collect-a-bulls that we meet along the way in our paths and journeys afar.....  well beyond the airwaves i constantly reflect upon those dear to me, including listeners that i rarely or never hear from.....   what do these efforts and love of sharing music result in or for or about... did i manage to make someones day..  better, more meaningful or just delighting the senses...  well it means alot.. to us all, as we share in this scattered way of delivering treats to your doorstep, heart and mind....   so, as i ponder with my endless playlist and constructively struggle though life in general,  i always look forward to sharing what little i have with you all and await oh so patiently for the parade to continue and that the music, love and feeling never slows down or crawls away from this old gator here....  so stay tuned, and we will keep the hits coming....    lator to you gators too..... -- jim

September and the Harvest season @ the Juke Joint Today 3pm kunr.org

Spending my time in big time recovery....  internal rehabilitation from last week's wildly diverse and entertaining Millpond festival in Bishop, California (more on that lator),,,, so i cranked out a "september shout out" songs and a "harvest reaping up the season" to round out the second hour of the radio show today....  a fine effort at radio repercussion for the extravagance of my readjustment and reinstatement back to civilian life....   ah, so much for the role of emceeing behind the one and only, love-able and excentric Joe Craven (really spelled "Crave-fun").. what a gem, and then you couple that with being on stage with David Myles (swear his sam cooke reconstituted), Alan Jeffries (on of the Canadian kings of eastern flaltpickin' - right in there with JP Cormier), Richard Smith, Incendio, David Gunning (songwriting's poet gem), Banana Slug boy - Larry & Doug, Cafe Musique, Tony Furtado and so many more.....    So the music was on a level as high as those lofty sierra's behind the stage....    And, then toss in for great taste all the volunteers, old friends, Lynn Cooper and the Inyo Council for the Arts (along with fiddlin' pete and Kathryn - what a dancer) and all the folks back at camp.....    the food the time and all too short....     Thankx also for the weather, which allowed a lot of pickin into the wee hours.....  way fun, so soon after i pick up the pieces, clean the trailer "suite P" out and get some chores done, i will publish some pics and continue on with life....    lator - jim

Thinkin' of things "

so the millpond festival is on, and I get te privilege of working it...hanging out and pickin when I get a chance...  but it's friendships and life in general that make it grand...  and I get to see Alan Jeffries, candy's version of Tony rice and doc wat son combined...    cant b wait..   so hang in this week and enjoy the blast from the past...   cheers

The Picker and coolest -- Alan Jeffries 

"till i gain control again"

in the course of life when you're runnin' wild with the urge to ramble, you find reasons to believe asthe daydream believer in you orthe  one paper kid sail away with the milk cow blues till you gain control again knowing that only the song survives...     just a few of the first set song title thoughts going on today at the juke joint.....     and, i was really sittin' on the dock of the bay the other day with loser blues and thinkin' of all the "sugar" in our lives until i had to head back to reality on that rusty old american dream (which rounds out the 2nd hour on todays show) ...  yeah like life, its wild and believer sets loaded with losers and sugar to help facilitate the great drive to gain control again....   be it the inner self, politics or just livin'.  keep the faith friends and enjoy the summer movin' on.....