The Lonestar Retrobates rip it up at the Oakland City Center, playing Louis Jordan's Choo Choo Cha Boogie.           The Lonestar Retrobates, the Left Coast’s very own Cowjazz outfit, play Smoke That Cigarette.           Blues for Dixie, performed by the Lonestar Retrobates at their regular gig at the 19 Broadway Niteclub in Fairfax, California, May. 2011. O.W. Mayo, Bob Wills' manager, is given writer's credit, but music historian Steve Hathaway says that it was probably actually written by Cindy Walker.         The Retrobates' closing theme, a medley of The Roundup's Over and The End of the Line—an homage to the Texas Playboys and the Four Freshmen, here given LSR's unique cowjazz treatment, wherein Barbour meets Bob Wills.         The Retrobates play Santo and Johnny's Sleepwalk and Louis Jordan's Choo Choo Cha Boogie. Mylos picks standard guitar on Ghost Riders in the SKy. On the first Sunday of every month, the guys circle up the wagons under the Golden Gate Bridge at the Presidio Yacht Club, the most spectacular joint on San Francisco Bay. Click here to see what we mean.           The Retrobates play Blues for Dixie with world-famous steel-guitar wizard, Vance Terry. And that’s Texas Drummer Boy Johnny Cuviello riding herd in the back, with Mylos, Bruce Stelter, Piper Heisig. Fiddle Ray Landsberg is off camera.           “Steel Fingers” —In this mini-documentary by San Francisco filmmaker Keith Azoubel, Mylos talks about life, music, and playing steel guitar.           Mylos Sonka, Bill DeKuiper, Ned Ripple, and Steve Strauss—one of many incarnations of the jump swing group On the Air. This was taped for Mal Sharpe's Grammy-winning "Hello Columbus" PBS special in 1987.           Ray “Idaho Slim” Green, on trumpet and vocals, has been playing with Curley Bob Akers, our reed man, in various bands for over 20 years, and their smooth and effortless ensemble work is wonderful to hear. Ray has also lead his own outfit, the Ray Green Band, for the past seven years. Check out Curley Bob with all that hair.