TMP306 JOE DARENSBOURG GOES WAY BACK

The singer and musician with Les Cenelles Creole Ensemble, early music group Musica da Camera, and rock band Shot Down in Equador Jr. has recently completed the "Musique(s)!” project (w/ Louis Michot, Leyla McCalla, Sweet Crude, and Sunpie Barnes) for the American Folklife Center resulting in an album, book, film, and exhibition documenting French and Creole music in Louisiana. An antique bookbinder by trade and an esoterica fan by inclination, Joe has a deep appreciation for history and connecting the dots. Tonight he puts himself in a bind with the Troubled Men.   Topics include French Quarter Fest, Greg Schatz, a shooting, a Passover Seder, matza, "Chad Gadya," Ladino, Gardenia Moon's "Dead Flowers," a death sentence, political violence, a motorcycle accident, Boston, Treme, Riverbend, Spectrum, Hurricane Betsy, the Fertel family, NOCCA, the Grosses, St. Augustine H. S., a Kinko's job, Bill Davis, Kelly Keller, Nicky Sanzenbach, Peter Strauss, Mary Tyler Moore, Chuck Gwartney, ethnomusicology, the Carolina Chocolate Drops, Code Noir, Kouri Vini, Corey Ledet, Leidenheimer Bakery, Milton Scheuermann, George Reinecke, Melinda Pendelton, Karen Barenco, Berlin Blixa Bargeld, and much more. 

Intro music: "Just Keeps Raining" by Styler/Coman

Break Music: "Teeth" by Shot Down in Equador Jr.

Outro Music: "Kaneis Edo Den Tragouda" by Panorama Jazz Band feat. Joe Darensbourg

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Chapters

• (00:00:16) - Troubled Men
• (00:02:05) - How Does the French Court Festival Make Money?
• (00:03:59) - Gun Violence at Festivals
• (00:06:31) - When You Don't Have Any Friends
• (00:07:24) - How Do You Eat Passover?
• (00:09:15) - Passover
• (00:10:49) - Gardenia Moon's New Album
• (00:11:54) - Trump rips Elon Musk and his Tesla
• (00:13:00) - The Great American Question
• (00:13:28) - Gardenia Moon's Record "Dead Flowers"
• (00:15:32) - Los Tremolo Kings
• (00:16:36) - Joe Daredevil on Riding A Motorcycle
• (00:19:14) - Meet Les Lel and the Lesson
• (00:20:07) - Bookbinder Joe Darensberg
• (00:24:14) - Books for Students: Are they charging more?
• (00:25:28) - Croatian kid on Hurricane Katrina and the Spectrum program
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