The Lost Bayou Ramblers frontman discusses a batch of new releases on his Nouveau Electric Records label. These include “Les String Noise” (with cellist Leyla McCalla and violin duo Pauline Kim and Conrad Harris) and “L.E.S. Douze Vol. 2” recorded during his residency at minimalist composer John Zorn’s The Stone concert series, as well as the trippy, ambient steel guitar record “Droste” by Lost Bayou Ramblers guitar player Jonny Campos’ Weeks Island project. Louis also talks about touring with Poguetry (w/ Spider Stacy and Cait O’Riordan) and his work preserving Cajun folkways in South Louisiana. He has his fingers in a lot of pies. Listen as he gets messy with the Troubled Men.

Topics include quarantine violations, grocery shopping, returning to work, unemployment benefits, taxes, the Grammys, a Paul Shaffer story, an interrupted tour, live streamed sets, busking, Arnaudville, “Trois Rang” by Soul Creole w/Corey Ledet and Ashlee Wilson Michot, colloquial French, Rosetta Stone, blackberry wine, the Lower East Side, Mardi Gras premonitions, the Apocalypse Ball, the record biz, a movie quote challenge, and much more.

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Intro music: Styler/Coman

Outro music: “Cajun Noise Construction” from “Les String Noise” by Louis Michot, Leyla McCalla, Pauline Kim, and Conrad Harris