The Folk/Trip Hop songwriter, singer, and guitarist left the Stella Adler Conservatory, recorded an independent record, and got signed to Atlantic. Disillusioned with the major label experience, he fell in with Nels Cline and the NYC Downtown scene, recording music outside the dying corporate music machine. Tonight, on a break from house concert tours, Dustan drops in for an intimate evening with the Troubled Men. He can't get more outside the system than that.

Topics include a jailbreak, Sheriff Hutson, Marlon Gusman, soap operas, a one-man show, OPP, a freeway crossing, Al Scramuzza RIP, Ruthie the Duck Lady, the Naked Cowboy, Chris Rose, a Mt. Everest climber, South African refugees, Nottoway Plantation burning, Todd Rundgren's birthday cake, Cajun lineage, St. James Parish, Perique tobacco, McNeese State, modeling, a piano class, Alice Winston, digital recording, Williamsburg, the Clash Day shows, a work ethic, collage, serialism, song placements, Freakfolk, St. Roch, Danny Blume, a DIY operation, and much more.

 

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