Back in the late-1970s, Jim Yanaway was known as an R&B fan and record collector who worked at musician Slim Richey's record distributorship on West Vickery and also ran a record label, Amazing Records. Over the years, he released worthy discage by artists as diverse as Dallas saxman David "Fathead" Newman, Fort Worth R&B guitar pioneer Cornell Dupree, and Jerry Jeff Walker's Lost Gonzo Band. His very first LP release, though, was Border Radio, a too-cool-for-school instant party by the Juke Jumpers, a band fronted by his Richey Records co-worker, Jim Colegrove, and guitar ace Sumter Bruton. Now Colegrove's Cool Groove label has re-released Border Radio on a single disc with the even more rockin' The Joint's Jumpin'! from 1981. Amazing Records! is the name on the new package.

The Juke Jumpers established the template for Fort Worth musos like James Hinkle and Johnny Mack, who follow the Texas music fan's dictum of "put all my food on the same plate" -- blues, R&B, swing, rockabilly, zydeco, everything. In the Jumpers' case, the eclecticism came from the confluence of Colegrove's rock 'n' roll and rockabilly roots and Bruton's affinity for jump blues and swing. On these two albums, sax maniac Johnny Reno augmented the lineup. When Border Radio was new, Yanaway hyped the group's sprightly cover of Tommy "Jim" Beam's "My Little Jewel" as "a Rolling Stones move," which it ain't -- Colegrove & Co. had too much roadhouse integrity to ape any limey blues pretenders. Tracks like "Horne Street Bounce" and "The Jump" conjure the spirit of many beery good times at Robert Ealey's New Bluebird Nite Club. The Joint's Jumpin'! adds studio slickness and more developed arrangements to the basic recipe. No po-faced roots homage here; this is dance music.

Next, Colegrove promises the re-ish of the Jumpers' smokin' 1987 live-at-Caravan-of-Dreams set.