11:04am
Bob Brainen:
Thanks Andrew. I have to get my act together, we'll play some Dave Mason next week.
🥁♥
11:05am
clarabowie:
Merry bday week, Bob! Fond memories of a dearly departed friend who adored this Jimmie/Carters track and played it for me with extreme enthusiasm. I think about this friend, a country music historian and radio programmer, often.
11:09am
PT:
Good Saturday Morning and Happy Birthday week, BB! Hey, as long as the name on the label is Jimmie Rodgers, you can be sure of its quality...
🥁♥
11:40am
adamdoesit:
Good morning, Bob and brains. Today's baseball game is rained out. Guess I'll have to stay home, listen to music, and admire the cat.
Music recorded a century ago was literally modern. Maybe it will always remain so. Similarly, bebop still sounds like the future to me.
11:40am
Andrew in Toronto:
↳
Bob Brainen @11:20
There`s a new Dan Pen cd coming out:
https://www.danpenn.com
11:41am
Bob Brainen:
Hey, adamdoesit. Interesting take on music/time.
🥁♥
1:17pm
Olleh:
Unrelated, except for the variety TV personalities, your Arthur Godfrey reference reminded me of finding a young Hugh Downs lp while thriftng. All I knew of Hugh was his hosting of tv news/ variety shows.
Listener comments!
: Good morning, Bob Brainen (the 1st).
Doug Schulkind: Morning, Bob. Happy birthday week!
Bob Brainen: Morning (Mr) Bill
Bob Brainen: Hey, thanks, Doug Schulkind.
Andrew in Toronto:
↳ Bob Brainen @11:01
Good morning, Bob, and all others who are musically adventurous!Soule: Happy Saturday, Bob and our gang! This about-an-hour will be educational for me.
Bob Brainen: Good morning to you, Andrew in Toronto
David B: Morning greetings to Bob and brainen-acs!
Bob Brainen: Happy Saturday, Soule.
Andrew in Toronto:
↳ Bob Brainen @11:02
Dave Mason RIP:https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/arts/music/dave-mason-dead.html
Bob Brainen: Greetings, David B.
Andrew in Toronto:
↳ Soule @11:02
Greetings, Soule!Bob Brainen: Thanks Andrew. I have to get my act together, we'll play some Dave Mason next week.
clarabowie: Merry bday week, Bob! Fond memories of a dearly departed friend who adored this Jimmie/Carters track and played it for me with extreme enthusiasm. I think about this friend, a country music historian and radio programmer, often.
Soule:
↳ Andrew in Toronto @11:04
Hey there, Andrew!Bob Brainen: Hi Clara Bowie. Here's to you and your departed friend.
melinda: What a great recording, and a nice transition from Cricket's show. You can't really see Mexico from Kerrville, haha.
Bob Brainen: Hi, Melinda
PT: Good Saturday Morning and Happy Birthday week, BB! Hey, as long as the name on the label is Jimmie Rodgers, you can be sure of its quality...
Bob Brainen: Hey, PT. That is the truth.
wmfromd: Good morning Bob and all!
Bob Brainen: Morning, wmfromd
Andrew in Toronto:
↳ wmfromd @11:13
Hi there, wmfromd!Will thee SG OCNY: Good morning Bob Brainen and all!!!
duke: Hi Bob and everybody
ATLDondi: Good morning Bob-- re: today's About An Hour With-- I feel like we're in for a treat
Bob Brainen: Will thee SG OCNY, good morning to you.
Bob Brainen: Hi, Duke
Bob Brainen: G'morning, ATLDondi.
clarabowie: Methinx Julius LaRosa had plenty of humility. Arthur Godfrey, different story.
wmfromd:
↳ Andrew in Toronto @11:15
Morning, Andrew!adamdoesit: Good morning, Bob and brains. Today's baseball game is rained out. Guess I'll have to stay home, listen to music, and admire the cat.
Music recorded a century ago was literally modern. Maybe it will always remain so. Similarly, bebop still sounds like the future to me.
Andrew in Toronto:
↳ Bob Brainen @11:20
There`s a new Dan Pen cd coming out:https://www.danpenn.com
Bob Brainen: Hey, adamdoesit. Interesting take on music/time.
Bob Brainen:
↳ Andrew in Toronto @11:40
New Dan Penn? Always good news. Thanks, Andrewduke:
↳ Song: "Futuristic Jungleism" by "Earl Jackson & His Orch...
This is great stuff.gene sculatti: Hi Bob.
Soule:
↳ Song: "Freight Train Boogie" by "Doc Watson"
Doc is so great!Andrew in Toronto:
↳ Soule @12:01
You need to check this out:There`s a new Dan Pen cd coming out:
https://www.danpenn.com
Bob Brainen: Hi, Gene Sculatti,
Soule:
↳ Andrew in Toronto @12:03
That looks promising. I just read a review at tinnitist.com...Andrew in Toronto:
↳ Soule @12:07
Thanks!Oleh from Pittsburgh: Hi Bob and Bobbers! Happy post Birthday weekend!
Bob Brainen: Hey, Oleh, thanks!
Olleh:
↳ Song: "You Never Heard Of Javahead?" by "David Greenberg...
His Duplex Planet zine was wonderful!Andrew in Toronto:
↳ Olleh @12:14
Greetings, 0lleh!Olleh: I have that Van Zandt lp and Tomato label was great. First time Einstein on he Beach label
Bob Brainen:
↳ Olleh @12:14
There's a Doc on David that's making the rounds of some festivals and such. Hopefully to become available more widely.Frank Zaatar:
↳ Olleh @12:17
Tomato also recorded Leroy Jenkins and Sam Rivers.Bob Brainen: Hey, Frank Zataar.
Frank Zaatar: Morning, Bob. Thanks for the gorgeous track by Little Walter.
Bob Brainen:
↳ Frank Zaatar @12:27
Glad you dug, FrankAndrew in Toronto:
↳ Frank Zaatar @12:27
Hi there, Frank!Frank Zaatar: Hi, Andrew!
Frank Zaatar:
↳ Song: "🐸 🐸 🐸" by ""frogs and more frogs" @ Joe Bauer's R...
As opposed to the seminal blues guitarist Jimmy Rogers.(Mr) Bill:
↳ Song: "I Won't Sing Rock And Roll" by "Jimmie Rodgers & ...
This song deconstructs itself.Bob Brainen:
↳ Frank Zaatar @12:42
Thank G-d, there's a "Jimmy!"gene sculatti: This special is an ambitious pairing, Bob. Good on you!
Bob Brainen:
↳ gene sculatti @12:46
Thanks, Gene. I just love the music of these 2 guys.Frank Zaatar: Did this guy ever record a song without changing up the key?
∫ydniuß:
↳ Frank Zaatar @12:54
modulationkinda his gig
Soule:
↳ Frank Zaatar @12:54
Ha-ha - a second after I read your comment, the key changed in "Bimbombey."Bob Brainen: Hey, ∫ydniuß
Olleh:
↳ Andrew in Toronto @12:15
Hey Andrew!duke:
↳ Song: "Endless Sleep" by "Jody Reynolds & The Storms"
Classic dead girlfriend songwmfromd:
↳ Song: "Endless Sleep" by "Jody Reynolds & The Storms"
Covered a decade later by the Blues Project.Olleh:
↳ Bob Brainen @12:19
Yes, me too.Olleh:
↳ Frank Zaatar @12:23
So cool! I love that label and label logo.chresti:
↳ Song: "Fire Of Love" by "Jody Reynolds"
Hi Bob and bobbers!Bob Brainen: Hiya, Chresti
Frank Zaatar:
↳ Soule @12:55
Rudy Vallee attributed his phenomenal success to his habit of playing every song in a higher key, thus raising his audiences to a frenzy.clarabowie: "Stone Cold" is even more proto-Lynchian than "Endless Sleep".
Soule:
↳ Frank Zaatar @1:05
Brilliant subliminal manipulation!Olleh: Unrelated, except for the variety TV personalities, your Arthur Godfrey reference reminded me of finding a young Hugh Downs lp while thriftng. All I knew of Hugh was his hosting of tv news/ variety shows.
Olleh:
↳ clarabowie @1:05
That was hypnotic, right?Olleh:
↳ chresti @1:00
Hiya chresti!chresti:
↳ Olleh @1:19
Ih Olleh!gene sculatti: I think it was the LA cops who beat up Rodgers, right?
Bob Brainen:
↳ gene sculatti @1:20
I think so, but such a brutal beating, I would not rule out Morris Levy. Everyone did his bidding.gene sculatti: Surely possible.
clarabowie: Tommy James wrote in his autobiography that he thought Morris Levy arranged the beating.
Bob Brainen: I was informed that I played an additional song that I did not announce so I just added it to the playlist.
Olleh:
↳ gene sculatti @1:22
Hiya Gene! Happy to see you here. I think in these terribly uncool times, we need your guidance.Frank Zaatar:
↳ wmfromd @12:58
Which Blues Project album was that on?Jan Turkenburg: Hello Bob and friends!
Bob Brainen: Hey, Jan Turkenburg
Olleh:
↳ Jan Turkenburg @1:28
Hi Jan!Jan Turkenburg: Olleh!
∫ydniuß: 🐔
Bob Brainen: The electric guitarist on 'wreck of John B' is so good!
Bob Brainen:
↳ Frank Zaatar @1:27
Planned Obsolescence '68. Transitional line-up some of whom would become the 1st line-up of Sea Train.Very odd happenings!
Bandit: Howdy
Frank Zaatar:
↳ Bob Brainen @1:40
I hadn't paid attention to post-Kooper Blues Project, but I really dug Seatrain. I'll have to check it out.Frank Zaatar:
↳ Bob Brainen @1:40
BTW, Bob, can I noodge you again to do a BP/Al Kooper/Bloomfiled/Seatarin hour (or two)?Frank Zaatar: Oops--"Bloomfield/Seatrain"
Bob Brainen:
↳ Frank Zaatar @1:46
That's a firm maybe, Frank. C'est possible, thanks for suggestion!Frank Zaatar: I'll take a firm maybe.
wmfromd:
↳ Frank Zaatar @1:27
Oops, sorry Frank. What Bob said!clarabowie: Very swell program, Bob, thanx!
Andrew in Toronto:
↳ Bob Brainen @1:47
What an inspired show!Bob, thanks!
gene sculatti: Bob, have you done an Hour with Del Shannon?
Frank Zaatar:
↳ Song: "The Wreck Of The John B" by "Jimmie Rodgers"
The Weavers also covered The Wreck of the John B. I just found a 78 of their version.Soule: Great show, Bob! Many thanks.
wmfromd: Fantastic show Bob! Thank you!
(Mr) Bill: Happy birthday, Bob. Thanks for today's present to your listeners.
gene sculatti: Unipak!
Olleh: Thanks Bob. Always outstanding! Have a great week eveyone!
Frank Zaatar: Speaking of the Blues project...!
Thanks as always, Bob.