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Help Launch Community Radio in Clarksdale, Mississippi

Are you passionate about the roots of the Blues? Do you believe in preserving and promoting American musical history and Black musical art forms? Are you a listener of community radio run by and for the people? Do you get tired of corporate radio washing away the distinct regional sounds of this country?

Parent of Jiveradio.org, Open Sky Radio (OSR) Corp., a California-based 501c3 non-profit has built over a dozen non-commercial FM radio stations in rural west towns (CA, NV, OR), and eventually turned them over to local non-profits.
You are now invited to join in their exciting next venture to launch a non-commercial, community radio station in Clarksdale, Mississippi – the birthplace of the Blues.

They have done the planning and engineering and have a perfect host in place for this transmitter site for a signal that will expand far beyond the crossroads. With your support, they will build a “terrestrial” radio station that will be as rich as the soil it sits on.

WAIT 88.1FM will be programming Jiveradio’s special Clarksdale Blues-centric blend that celebrates virtually all music genres, providing a space for both classic recordings from the deep vault and new, up-and-coming artists to be heard. Their goal is to not only entertain but also to educate listeners about the rich history and cultural impact of the music born from this significant place.

Please help support this landmark radio station project for the nursery of the Blues. Read all about it on the GoFundMe link.

Go fund me
Public inquiries: Lazlo Bleen – laz@jiveradio.org.
Non-Humanic voicemail: 541.233.5224

A wireless thanks…

…to anybody who went thru the myriad hoops to vote because of our last post (below). If you haven’t yet voted, skip it! We don’t think you should go thru such things.

“The Source” readers poll be open!

Bend’s Source Weekly newspaper has issued it’s annual “Best of Central Oregon” readers poll. If you think the Jive serves up the Best Radio in those parts, you can grab a fresh & free copy off the streets for your paper ballot or vote online HERE.

>>>PHEW!!!  & YIKES! We just tried to vote online and it’s a total pain in the ass. Paper version strongly recommended, unless you’re dyin’ for more screen time. [Of course the sources of Sources are a bit rare outside of Bend, Oregon.]

[Yes, you will need a (free) Source sign-in, and be sure to read the rules!]

BALLOT HINT: Best Radio Station is in “PLACES” — Best Radio Personality is in “PEOPLE”

[We voted Plankers for Best Sandwich, Sparrow Best Bakery…YUMM!]

A short Kinky story about a great storyteller

 

Richard Samet “Kinky” Friedman (November 1, 1944 – 26 June 2024)

It was in the newest weeks of 1980 that I found myself in San Francisco, on Broadway no less, making over what was the Hippodrome dinner theater into the newest venue for the Keystone family of nightclubs (Berkeley, Palo Alto, SF). On Grand Opening night, the headliner was Muddy Waters with Kinky Friedman opening for him. It was my guess that most of the blues fans in the audience to see Muddy did not know or care about what this big Texas Jew had to say, let alone know his sense of humor. While strapping on his guitar and tuning, he introduces himself and says…“I just got done writing a jingle for the second largest tampon company in the world…and their motto was… ‘We’re not number one, but we’re right up there.’ “ 

– – – Tasteless? You bet. Break the ice? Sure did.

Anyway, Kinky did a good set of solid tunes and funny stories and Muddy did his inimitable Muddy thing, sitting on a metal folding chair with his guitar (for over an hour) laying out the real deal Muddyness. 

After the show, I found Kinky sitting by himself in his dressing room drinking and toking on a huge cigar, which of course stunk like the dog turd it looked to be. He took a tug off of a bottle, offered it to me and says “HEY, WANNA SLASH OF TEQUILA?” …“Uh, no thanks”, I say politely. “WHADDYA YOU KNOW ABOUT TEQUILA??” …he barks. “CUERVO? “…he says, still holding the stubby square bottle out to me, “…THIS MAKES CUERVO TASTE LIKE CAT PISS.”  I took a slug and sat down. 

After another slug or a few, I learned a few things from Kinky that night; what, and how good, Herradura Tequila was (and how Bing Crosby and his drinking buddy formed a shell company so they could import it into the states for themselves), and… always drink the best tequila you can get your hands on.

My story. Stickin’ to it.

~jeff cotton

Jive co-founder