We're excited to welcome Matt the Cat to Mushroom FM

Thanks to everyone who has made the choice to listen to Mushroom FM more often and for longer since we became your station for four decades of magic mushroom memories.

We're always looking for new ways to explore the diversity of riches offered by the decades we focus on. We're delighted to welcome someone who will bring us the music that started it all.

Here's how Matt the Cat describes his show, Juke in the Back.

If you wanted to hear rhythm & blues during the 1950s, you couldn’t get it from the juke box in the front. No, no! In order to hear that glorious, down and dirty R&B, you had to go to the low-lit, spit-shined “Juke In The Back.” These songs are the building blocks of rock n’ roll. These are the records that inspired Elvis and single-handedly led to the rock n’ roll explosion of the mid-1950s. Big Joe Turner, Fats Domino, Little Richard, Ruth Brown, Ray Charles, Wynonie Harris, LaVern Baker, Roy Brown, Joe Liggins, Professor Longhair and many more take center stage on The Juke In The Back.

Matt The Cat hosted a similar program on XM Satellite Radio called “Harlem” and now he brings this great music and information to Mushroom FM.

You can take a trip to the Juke in the Back at 3 PM Eastern, 8 PM UK on Saturdays. If that's stupid o'clock where you are, Matt will do it all again on Thursday mornings starting next week at 4 AM Eastern, 9 AM UK.

We're delighted to be bringing this show to you and invite you to join Matt starting this Saturday for a show that's educational, well-presented, and full of outstanding music that too many people have forgotten about. See you at the Juke in the Back, all part of our four decades of magic mushroom memories at Mushroom FM.