Troubled Men Podcast

By René and Manny

René Coman sits down with the original Troubled Man, Manny Chevrolet, over cocktails at the Ring Room, in the heart of an old-school New Orleans social haunt.

Manny is an L.A. native who had been thr... more

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July 10, 2025 TMP315 JOE ADRAGNA: 1973 NERVOUS BREAKDOWN
The Junior League songwriter, singer, and multi-instrumentalist mastermind has also played and recorded with the Minus 5 with Scott McCaughy and REM's Peter Buck. A Beatles devotee since he heard "I Want To Hold Your Hand" on oldies radio at the age of 4, he's channeled his power-pop influences including Big Star, the Monkees, Bowie, Badfinger, and the Kinks into over a dozen excellent records. Tonight Joe joins the Troubled Men as they reflect on the chaos and ennui of the 1970s Me Decade. Key party, anyone?

Topics include a new mayoral candidate, Ricky Twiggs Jr., A.I., a captured fugitive, the Diddy verdict, Finnish fines, Lalo Schifrin RIP, Bobby Sherman RIP, Lou Christy RIP, Jimmy Lee Swaggart RIP, "Helter Skelter," Powers Boothe, Jim Jones, John Lennon's death, learning to play drums, college rock, the Record Stop, Florida, JJ Murphy, marriage, moving to New Orleans, the Magic Bus, Tiki Tuesdays, home recording, car phones, VCRs, answering machines, Alex Chilton records, Natasha Sanchez, Tom Stern, Blue Velvet Studio, Buffa's, Gardenia Moon, Jonathan Pretus, "Ranking the Beatles," theme records, Daniel Lanois, a Spiro Agnew quote, "The Ice Storm," Jay Gonzalez, and much more.

Intro music: "Just Keeps Raining" by Styler/Coman
Break and Outro Music: "Skinny Tie" and "1973 Nervous Breakdown" from "Our Broadcast Day" by the Junior League
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1h 22min
July 03, 2025 TMP314 JASON AFFOLDER GETS FIRED UP
The indie filmmaker, photographer, firefighter, and former teacher went from USC film school in South Central L.A. to the war zone of a New Orleans-area high school classroom. His latest film “The Great Davini” stars Snake and Jake’s beloved owner Dave Clements in the title role. Jason’s service as a first responder in the Katrina aftermath tested his mettle in ways most never encounter. A world traveler, he’s has been to Libya, Syria, and Afghanistan, but tonight he really takes his life in his hands when he convenes with the Troubled Men.

Topics include the mayoral campaign, a sweltering gig, a sunburn contest, the Diddy trial, Iranian terror cells, a FEMA director, the Lakers sale, Jerry Buss, the NBA, the WNBA, escaped convicts, Jimmy Chubbuck, Indiana tornados, '90s indie films, an arrest, Jim Jarmusch, the Sons of Lee Marvin, the public library, the Mermaid Lounge, Henry Griffin, Timecode NOLA, 48 Hour Films, Zeitgeist Arts Center, Dave Clements in "The Great Davini," tabletop magic, "9th Ward Justice," "Sun Dogs," old firehouses, Chuck Brokmeier, "Backdraft," and much more.

Intro music: "Just Keeps Raining" by Styler/Coman
Break Music: "This Is About This" by the Geraniums
Outro Music: "Baby's On Fire" from "Here Come The Warm Jets" by Brian Eno
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1h 24min
June 26, 2025 TMP313 BILLY IUSO GOES NATIVE
The guitar player, singer, and songwriter has released over a dozen records under his own name and as leader of the Brides of Jesus and the Restless Natives. Stints playing with Anders Osborne, the Wild Magnolias, and his Iko Allstars, in addition to tour managing the Neville Brothers, the Funky Meters, and George Porter and the Running Pardners, have put him in the thick of the New Orleans funk mix. Tonight Billy chances a return to Snake and Jake's with the Troubled Men to conjure the ghosts of the Christmas Club's past.

Topics include a military parade, Juneteenth, Father's Day, a Christian punk band, a stoning, an apartment registry, a Pride parade, a Shame parade, the Carousel Bar, Bourbon St., Brian Wilson RIP, Dr. Landy, a Beach Boys concert, a Deadhead father, heavy metal, Providence, tapers, New York, the Wetlands, Dave Matthews, Athens, Russell Batiste, Bo Dollis, Quint Davis, Reggie Scanlan, Eddie Christmas, Joe Ashlar, Frenchmen St. clubs, camping festivals, CR Gruver, Mike Doussan, and much more.

Intro music: "Just Keeps Raining" by Styler/Coman
Break Music: "She Moves That Way" from "Overstanding" by Billy Iuso
Outro Music: "Rains of Oaxaca" from "52hz" by Billy Iuso
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1h 22min
June 19, 2025 TMP312 BRUCE SUNPIE BARNES: CREOLE ALL-AMERICAN
The singer, bandleader, and accordion and harmonica player for Sunpie & the Louisiana Sunspots was previously an NFL football player and a U.S. park ranger. International tours with Paul Simon, Sting, and his own band have carried him far from his upbringing in rural Arkansas. Sunpie's childhood experience handling poisonous vipers in the backwoods serves him well as he sits down with the Troubled Men at Snake & Jake's.

Topics include the Big Island festival, a volcanic eruption, Tony Tocco, Atchafalaya restaurant, a flight delay, a bomb threat, convicts on the loose, the penny, ICE riots, sharecropping, the Pentecostal Church, baptisms, selling snakes, a rattlesnake round up, tent revivals, playing piano, a Buick Electra 225, integration, Jacques Cousteau, Marlin Perkins, Loretta Swit, a life plan, eating mule, a value system, the NFL draft, turf toe, the USFL, Bo Jackson, Raiders fans, Joe Sample, Harry Belafonte, early retirement, and much more.
Intro music: "Just Keeps Raining" by Styler/Coman
Break Music: "Fox & The Hound" from "Lick A Hot Skillet" by Sunpie and the Louisiana Sunspots
Outro Music: "We are the Northside Skull and Bone Gang" from "Island Man" by Sunpie and the Louisiana Sunspots
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1h 29min
June 12, 2025 TMP311 DAVID KUNIAN: JAZZ LUNATIQUE
The award-winning radio documentarian, musicologist, and long-running WWOZ DJ showcases his deep knowledge of music every Tuesday at 10pm with his Freaknology Lunatique radio show. By day David is the music curator for the Louisiana State Museum and curator of the New Orleans Jazz Museum, producing exhibitions and live programming and caretaking their 71,000-piece collection. His reign as emcee for the alternative Chaz Fest demonstrates his love for weirdos and misfits. He should feel right at home tonight with the Troubled Men.

Topics include escaped convicts, accomplices, a brownout, Len Davis, an aggressive pat-down, a Hawaiian vacation, the beach, senior moments, the penny, an intern, Boston, an elite high school, chowder, Southies, college radio, avant-garde jazz, Katharine Hepburn, an overnight show, James Booker, the new WWOZ studios, Darryl Berger, Griper, Michael Ward, a ghost story, AFO Records, Everette Maddox, the Maple Leaf, the Truck Farm, the Geraniums, Tom Thayer, and much more.
Intro music: "Just Keeps Raining" by Styler/Coman
Break Music: "Junko Partner" from "Live at the Maple Leaf" by James Booker
Outro Music: "Tonight" from "Little Houses In Space" by the Geraniums
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1h 14min
May 29, 2025 TMP310 DUSTAN LOUQUE IN THE HOUSE
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
Break and Outro Music: "Medicine Man" and "Won't You Let Me Love" from "102713" by Louque
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1h 16min
May 22, 2025 TMP309 CHARLIE HALLORAN BONES UP
The Grammy Award-winning trombone player and bandleader of the Tropicales, his 1960s-styled Caribbean lounge group, has been a mainstay of the Trad Jazz and Frenchmen St scenes since his arrival in town almost two decades ago. A chance encounter with mastermind Jimbo Mathis led to years touring and recording with the Squirrel Nut Zippers. With the Tropicales’ schedule heating up, Charlie drops by to cool his heels with the Troubled Men.

Topics include the end of the school year, a new pope, junkyard auto parts, a trip to the dump, the Diddy trial, Pete Rose reinstated, RFK Jr.'s germ theory, St. Louis, a trombone joke, a hockey team, a family ska band, REM opening for the English Beat, teenage club gigs, a priest uncle, overblowing, solo records, NuTone Recordings, Algiers, the Big Island Jazz and Blues Festival, Doug Garrison, sidemen, the Mid-Century Modern aesthetic, Exotica, Martin Denny, the lounge music revival, Herb Alpert, Brasil ‘66, Derek Carr, "The Alcoa Sessions," 78 rpms, wax cylinders, summer tour plans, and much more.
Intro music: "Just Keeps Raining" by Styler/Coman
Break and Outro Music: "Ocaso Marino" (feat. Cyrille Aimée) and "En Bas La Te" from "Jump Up" by Charlie and the Tropicales
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1h 16min
May 15, 2025 TMP308 ANDERS PARKER: HANDMADE MUSIC
The songwriter, singer, and guitar player has been making records as a solo artist and with his band Varnaline for over two decades. His collaborations with Son Volt’s Jay Farrar include the “New Multitudes” project with Jim James of My Morning Jacket which paired unused Woody Guthrie lyrics with new music. With a show of his oil paintings currently running at Nola ’Nacular gallery and a summer tour with fellow troubadour Steve Earle coming up, Anders takes a detour into the Christmas Club for a couple rounds with the Troubled Men.
Topics include a backyard concert, Lynn Drury, good gigs, Newell Normand, porch parties, a cereal killer, milk and meat, a dead pope, the College of Cardinals, Morris Day and the Time, bad tenants, medical advice, open tunings, Hudson Valley, a farm, the circus, Donnie’s vs coyotes, writing songs, the Kentucky Derby, 4-track recording, Portland, strip clubs, a divided ballroom, moving to Alaska, immediacy in art, Anthony DelRosario, Gob Iron, moving to New Orleans, Miss Mae’s, French schools, Sarah Mailes, “Cisco Pike,” Karen Black, Kris Kristofferson, Doug Sahm, “Night Gallery,” psychedelics, flashbacks, a swimming moose, 24-hour daylight, and much more.
Intro music: "Just Keeps Raining" by Styler/Coman
Break Music: "Don't You Let Them Get You Down" from "The Black Flight" by Anders Parker
Outro Music: "Dogs and Horses" from "Wolf Reckoning" by Anders Parker
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1h 19min
May 08, 2025 TMP307 MARK GUARINO BECOMES THE STORY
The award-winning reporter, music critic, playwright, and author of the excellent book "Country and Midwestern: Chicago in the History of Country Music and the Folk Revival" has written for many top news outlets and publications, the Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, the New York Times, ABC News, Downbeat, and Mojo among them. The Chicago native who now splits his time between there and New Orleans has also written a number of Offbeat cover stories, including the Irma Thomas feature for the recent Jazz Fest issue. Mark has always had a genuine interest in and curiosity about people. His night with the Troubled Men may cure him of that.
Topics include an illness, Santana, Wink Martindale RIP, Dick Clark's house, Pepperdine University, the Pope’s death, Susan Cowsill's Joni Mitchell show, bad gigs, a bike rider, a flood, a water bill, Entergy, a message from the past, theater of the mind, radio, Oak Park, Fitzgerald's American Music Fest, the Beat writers, Bob Dylan, "A Complete Unknown," "I'm Not There," a college newspaper job, Rogers Park, Studs Terkel, Mike Royko, the digital era, naked parties, the ‘90s music scene, Obama, Cheap Trick, Jon Langford, James Iha, a Smashing Pumpkins interview, Butch Vig, the 2nd Northern Migration, the WLS Barn Dance, the Old Town School of Folk Music, John Prine, the theater scene, local politics, and much more.
Intro music: "Just Keeps Raining" by Styler/Coman
Break Music: "Not Over Yet" from "Someone's Monster" by Loose Cattle
Outro Music: "Royal Street" from "Hope Is Not For The Weak"
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1h 19min
April 24, 2025 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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1h 14min

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