The award-winning journalist, author, and TV host has covered music, entertainment, and more for the Times-Picayune, the Advocate, and Offbeat magazine for decades. His book, “Groove Interrupted,” explored the post-Katrina musical landscape, and his “Let’s Talk” weekly TV show features local and national personalities. Keith has conducted hundreds of interviews, but tonight the Troubled Men turn the tables as the hunter becomes the hunted and predator becomes prey.

Topics include an election recap, the blame game, 2nd term plans, a Michael Deas stamp, “The Vermilion Coat,” lame duck actions, Willie Nelson, Crazy Horse, the 4B boycott, a customer confession, bathroom advice, a Dr. John tribute show, Sicilian roots, N.O. East, Brother Martin H. S., Michael Tisserand, Rush, college music acts, a vegetarian meal for R.E.M., a Reba interview, a Hall and Oates show, a Courtney Love article, Hole, Keith O’Brien, Frank Donze, Pulitzer prizes, post-Katrina duty, looting the Walmart, downsizing the paper, a Jerry Seinfeld interview, the Iguanas, an Aaron Neville call, a Dr. John show, and much more.

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The Troubled Men convene at Snake and Jake’s in the final hours of campaign season as the polls close and the first vote counts roll in. Joined by Clempire Czar Dave Clements and resident philosopher, bartender, and former Goldman Sachs analyst Juan Parke, they hope for the best, prepare for the worst, and resolve that however it turns out, the struggle will continue.

Topics include a dictator shirt, a Dodgers win, Dennis Allen’s firing, Derek Carr, college playoffs, news coverage, voting candy, Vegas odds makers, undecided voters, P. Diddy, keys to the city, a postal parking ticket, the Tedeschi-Trucks band, a lump of votes, Steve Rapport, Tony Hinchcliffe, Tucker Carlson, eroding norms, the ring of power, a Puerto Rico joke, insult comedy, intern opinions, historical ignorance, objective truth, Steve Bannon’s prison release, Murders & Assassinations, fluoride, conspiracies, a rare elixir, RFK Jr., the Electoral College, a prescient prediction, and much more.

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Break Music: "High Anxiety" by Mel Brooks

Outro Music: "Retreat of the Light Horse Brigade" from "Hope Is Not For The Weak" by the Geraniums

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The poet, lyricist, and longtime Chuck Prophet songwriting partner grew up in Sinatra-era Palm Springs and was miraculously healed of a mystery ailment by a meeting with Elvis. He later spent time as a comedy writer in L.A. alongside legends including Andy Kaufman and Robin Williams. With the release of Chuck’s new “Wake the Dead” cumbia record cowritten with Kurt, he joins the Troubled Men in an attempt to laugh it up as the flames grow higher.

Topics include an ATF crackdown, Halloween, handing out advice, the War on Terror, Eric Paulsen RIP, Teri Garr RIP, “Mr. Mom,” Swifties on the streets, an unusual opening act, an early voting threat, a toxic garden plan, a police scandal, Barry Hannah, the Old World, Jilly Rizzo, Frank Weinstock, Shecky Greene, Liberace, Charles Bukowski, the L.A. Free Press, the Memphis Mafia, B12 shots, Kathryn Kuhlman, Canned Heat, Dale Spalding, Mike Fabian, the Improv, Bone Cootes, “Temple Beautiful,” Emperor Norton, Chris Lane, Stephanie Finch, dance music, a lymphoma diagnosis, near rhymes, haiku, “Mexico City Blues,” literary editing, Jeff Sessions, “The Junk Man,” and much more.

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Break Music: "White Nights, Big City" from "Temple Beautiful" by Chuck Prophet

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The multi-Grammy-nominated Lafayette singer, accordion player, guitarist, and songwriter hit the international festival circuit as a 13-year-old prodigy, having already spent years recording and playing roadhouse dances alongside cajun and zydeco masters including Lil’ Buck Senegal and Buckwheat Zydeco. He continues to electrify audiences with his Hub City All Stars featuring longtime songwriting partner and piano player Eric Adcock. Tonight he crosses the swamps to charm the Troubled Men.

Topics include a shared birthday, eating alone, a federal probe, more Diddy lawsuits, a Jane’s Addiction update, the Cuban grid collapse, Halloween candy, Swifties, an e. coli outbreak, a Hawaii festival, Wayne Toups, Michael and David Doucet, the Comeaux family, the Romero Brothers, a grandfather’s accordion, parents’ records, WAR, Zachary Richard, the Montreal Jazz Festival, Clifton Chenier’s band, Boozoo Chavis, “Tammy Faye,” “Joker: Folie å Deux,” Edwin Edwards, B.B. King, Chuck Berry, Sonny Landreth, open tuning, Rodney Miller, Rodney Balsa, Luther Dickinson, cabinet making, Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys, award shows, a tribute album, Dockside Studio, Tony Daigle, Steve Berlin, and much more.

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Break and Outro Music: "Donne-Moi, Donc" and "Ma Jolie" from "Gulfstream" by Roddie Romero and the Hub City All Stars

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The Grammy-winning drummer, Single Lock Records label owner (Jon Cleary, Loose Cattle, Blind Boys of Alabama, Cedric Burnside), and artist manager left Tuscaloosa to put down roots in the fertile loam of legendary Muscle Shoals. A decade on, he has relocated to New Orleans as he launches his one-stop music company, Well Kept Secret. Reed’s got a lot of irons in the fire. Tonight he joins the Troubled Men as they stare into the flames.

Topics include the Mermaid Lounge reunion, the election, school zones, the Diddy files, a wood chipper accident, tree cutting, garage bands, record store culture, the Rev. Fred Lane, the Stones sessions, the Alabama Shakes, St. Paul and the Broken Bones, FAME Studios, pills, Rick Hall, David Hood, pozole, DIY, Americana Fest, Michael Cerveris, “Someone’s Monster,” integrity, album packaging, a Braille record cover, Al Jackson, regionalism, Jimbo Mathus, the Rumble, a moral exercise, and much more.

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Break and Outro Music: "The Shoals" and "Not Over Yet" from "Someone's Monster" by Loose Cattle

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The acclaimed violinist, singer, producer, composer, and musical saw master with Jimbo Mathus’ Squirrel Nut Zippers, the Late Greats, and Career Suicide spent years with the Asylum Street Spankers and various circus sideshows and burlesque troupes honing his punk-jazz-vaudeville aesthetic. The product of his musician father’s amateur genetic engineering project, he’s found a natural home in the subterranean excesses of the city. Dr. Sick joins the Troubled Men during the Days of Awe as they behold what the Lord hath wrought.

Topics include a gig recap, Gretna Fest, Kerry Brown, hurricanes, a grocery remodel, laying teffilin, Bosco lost and found, Dave’s birthday party, dementia, Q-tips, leeching, Dr. Kevorkian, a musical family, Buffalo, the Singing Drakes, a one-room schoolhouse, a karaoke empire, a first violin, a first guitar, vintage drugs, Boston, bad habits, practicing, busking on Royal St., Spike Jones, “Weird Al” Yankovic, an answering machine message, taping the radio, Danny Elfman, Oingo Boingo, Food for Feet, Bridget Fonda, a metal band, black socks, a theft, Lady Bangs, accordion punk, the Carousel Cabaret, a Renaissance fair, “The Beast of Burgundy,” touring with X, Fear, Lee Ving, Jello Biafra, surprise wedding proposals, the airport incident, Cella Blue, and more.

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Break and Outro Music: "Axman Jazz" and "Rusty Trombone" from "Beasts of Burgundy" by the Squirrel Nut Zippers

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The musician, producer, and author of the new Continental Drifters bio, “White Noise and Lightning” started corresponding with band members Susan Cowsill, Russ Broussard, Peter Holsapple, and Vicki Peterson when he was 13 years old. Leading his own art rock band A Fragile Tomorrow with his fellow triplets, he forged a familial bond with the Drifters, including extended visits with band members, even opening shows for Vicki with the Bangles. With the recent publication of the book and tribute CD, “We Are All Drifters,” Sean joins the Troubled Men to fill in a few more pieces of the Continental Drifters puzzle.

Topics include a new Mayor Cantrell-adjacent indictment, Fouad Zeton, an airline fracas, a seeping wound, airplane attire, a store lock-in, the Jane’s Addiction tour meltdown, Perry Farrell, podcast corrections, a Bosco presentation, Jack-in-the-Box, fast food, a book tour, the Subdudes, Raji’s, Carlo Nuccio, R.E.M., “Vermilion,” psychedelics, a record deal, Malcolm Burn, studio work, moving to Savannah, album reviews, Omnivore Records, Ronnie Barnett, the Muffs, and much more.

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Break Music: "The Rain Song" from "Vermilion" by the Continental Drifters

Outro Music: "Side Steppin' the Fire" from "We Are All Drifters: A Tribute to the Continental Drifters" by The Iguanas

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The founding bass player, vocalist, and songwriter with hard rock veterans Suplecs (with Durel Yates and Andrew Preen) has also toured internationally as the bassist with heavy music heavyweights EYEHATEGOD. As proprietor of the Portside Lounge, he operated the premier tiki bar and Mardi Gras Indian headquarters in New Orleans. Decades working in the movie biz filled his free time. With this kind of cross-cultural resume, it was only a matter of time before he’d get dragged onto the Troubled Men Podcast to explain himself. Now that time has come.

Topics include the House of Blues, brunch with Joey Buttafuoco, Heidi Fleiss, exotic birds, Billy Bob Thornton’s mynah bird, a carwash, Les Paul, missing Bosco, P. Diddy in jail, Tito Jackson RIP, Jack-in-the-Box, Naked Night at the Christmas Club, Brother Martin H.S., skate punks, Rick Nick in RZA, the Meters’ influence, slow music, Loyola U., big amps, Paul Webb, tuning down, Russell Batiste, the Slugs/Crowbar, a mystery package, Loose Change, Man’s Ruin Records, van life, protests, Satanic Panic, the Pizzatola family, Alsace-Lorraine, a dog attack, Ron Jeremy, Van Halen, Beachbum Berry, cocktails, drive-thru daiquiris, Dave Catching, bounce music, Carlo Nuccio, the Circle Jerks, Scott Plauché, set dressers, Gibson Grabber basses, Jimmy Glickman, Trent Resnor, Marilyn Manson, and much more.

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Break Music: "Rock Bottom" from "Sad Songs...Better Days" by Suplecs

Outro Music: "Stepped On" from "Mad Oak Redoux" by Suplecs

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The Latin, soul, and jazz singer with Muévelo, Kumasi Afrobeat, and now Los Tremolo Kings journeyed from her Cuban parents’ D.C. home to New Orleans after a chance karaoke encounter launched her professional career. Guest co-host Jeff Treffinger (Tribe Nunzio, the Geraniums, Strawberry) joins René and Margie in the Feral Zone to trace her path back to the music of her roots.

Topics include a musician survey, the mayor’s podcast, a parental warning, the Mermaid Lounge Reunion, a Kingpin show, Mario Monterosso, a Doug Garrison 40th anniversary, speaking Spanish, Cuban relatives, a family resemblance, travel school, the D.C. music scene, the 9:30 Club, synth pop, Suicide, “Cubist Blues,” Big Village at Jazz Fest, world travels, writing, the New Orleans lifestyle, the Fugitives of Funk, leading a band, dance music, Frenchmen St., paying dues, Brent Rose, Hugo Montero, Michael Skinkus and Moyuba, the divine, the M&Ms, Marigny Studios, Keith Keller, George French RIP, Tyler’s Beer Garden, Celia Cruz, and much more.

Intro music: "Trucker Takes A Wife" by Styler/Coman

Break Music: "Ooh Baby La La" from "Singing for My Supper" by Margie Perez

Outro Music: "Senderito de Amore" from "Los Tremolo Kings" by Los Tremolo Kings

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The enigmatic singer and guitarist behind Big Ass Mustache and Strawberry Presents and drummer for Dolly Dillon with Jeri Cain Rossi has always possessed a quiet intensity on stage. Starting out playing on the streets of the French Quarter, he now fronts the reformed STRAWBERRY with Jeff Treffinger of the Geraniums and Tribe Nunzio on guitar. Tonight they join René in the Feral Zone to reminisce about the glory days of the Mermaid Lounge and Pussycat Caverns as they cast a jaundiced gaze on the future.

Topics include a bar theft, Chris Lane, the Cramps at Lowe’s, Ace Hardware, a worst state list, Lake Charles, summer camp, Tony Kushner, Norwich, a marching group, playing saxophone, the Dirty Dozen, jazz band, the wrestling team, boxing, “The Big Easy,” street musicians, Jeremy Lyons, a Bad Company party, Willie Dixon, house parties, Talley Mulligan, Greg Easterly, Soup Chain, single parenthood, a forced break, Glyn Styler, Kenny Claiborne, War Amps, a Siberia gig, a new band, cover songs, early rehearsals, and much more.

Intro music: "Trucker Takes A Wife" by Styler/Coman

Break Music: "Shape" from "Strawberry Presents..." by Strawberry Presents

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Outro Music: "Old Coal Town"  and "Bunk Beds" by STRAWBERRY

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