Show Notes
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.
Intro Music: "Just Keeps Raining" by Styler/Coman
Break and Outro Music: "Axman Jazz" and "Rusty Trombone" from "Beasts of Burgundy" by the Squirrel Nut Zippers
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