WFMU: This Is The Modern World with Trouble: Playlist from December 30, 2021

Listener comments!
	9:01am Will the Sound Guy: Hello, DJ Trouble and all!
	9:01am Strandlund: Nothing but...Trouble!!
	9:02am HyperDose: Floating on down the radio river
	9:02am the Hurston moor-elf: there's Trouble afoot...
	9:02am Hi from Holland: Aloha!
	9:03am Robm: Hello trouble and fellow troublemakers
	9:04am Trouble: good morning last thursday of 2021 people!
	9:05am listener james from westwood: Good Thursday, Trouble and all!
	9:07am Ken From Hyde Park: Good morning, Trouble and troupe.
	9:08am Mike W: happy Trouble show everyone it is l’raining out and the Field will be too wet to report from; we’re taking this show on the road (which is also wet)
	9:09am melinda: Morning everyone!
	9:11am melinda: For some reason I set my alarm for an hour later than intended and I’ve got the groggies from sleeping in
	9:11am Passaic River Blues: Great portrait of Ms. Didion. RIP to one of the United States' greatest essayists and stylists to have ever put pen to paper.
	9:14am Webhamster Henry: Hello and welcome to the 2021 end times of the Modern World!
	9:17am MD: Hello Gang! Keep Stayin' Safe....Like Life...Virus finds a way...XO!
	9:18am Irene Trudel: Happy almost New Year Trouble and Modern Worldly people! 2021 wasn't as vile as 2020, but I'm eager for it to be gone. This lovely music helps!
	9:19am Ken From Hyde Park: The mid-term election coming up in 2022 will likely determine how soon the end times arrive.
	9:20am dale: never heard lee hazlewood sing this smoothly.
	9:21am DonJuanTijuana: Love the vibe Trouble!! I thought this was Scott Walker at first
	9:21am Trouble: sooooo i guess that lee hazelwood track is where alpha got this loop...
	9:22am listener james from westwood: Aw damn, I was wondering why I had trip-hop on the mind here! There we go!
	9:23am Zimharry: @Trouble..........and both these tracks taking me into the deep, black hole of solitary reverie........
	9:24am JD in Mtl: Beautiful vibes this morning...Merci beaucoup!
	9:24am StringOFperils: I love My Autumn's Done Come. It's like he's resigned to....something....leaving the world behind. Good for leaving this year behind.
	9:26am Zimharry: ...keep them coming...........ahhhhh
	9:27am Baja Joe: Nice.
	9:29am BVP: whew that was beautiful.
	9:32am Passaic River Blues: What a set!
	9:32am ben & Reba: Peace to trouble
	9:32am HyperDose: This is an anthem
	9:34am Mike W: more like love is through with me, am i ri–... [falls over dead]
	9:34am Baja Joe: I could swear that was Beth Gibbons on vocals on the Alpha tune. Loved it all the same.
	9:35am YETI BOB: yes to everything
	9:35am Mike W: I’m conditioned to think any guitar player like the one on the Claudia Thompson song is Barney Kessel
	9:36am Hughie Considine: Well this is more than a little sublime...
	9:36am jameson57: Kate Bush! This set of music is so good, Trouble. But you already knew that.
	9:38am Hughie Considine: I'd love to hear more of Kate Bush's music give this treatment.
	9:42am Listener Gregory: I am in The Modern World, but I am not of The Modern World.
	9:43am Passaic River Blues: I think Brandee Younger will be playing a live set for New Year's Eve on WBGO and other affiliates. I mean, I'll probably have Billy Jam and Fine Wine on, but worth noting.
	9:43am PKNY: Such a great opening set, just went clicky-star crazy! And cosign on "Force Majeure", my favorite record of 2020, and the record that I'll most associate with the COVID period.
	9:43am unpopularfred: I was totally sure claudia thompson was Chet Baker. Am I broken?
	9:44am The Butterman: Oh damn, I lived on Bowen St for 3 years.
	9:46am Dottore Sooza: And to think I saw it all on Bowen Street!
	9:47am TDK60: Good morning, Trouble.
	9:49am Vivian: @ Trouble if you quit teaching, what would you like to do?
	9:49am The Butterman: Preach Trouble! I’m high school art teacher too. I’m ready to do something else too. Unfortunately I’m just not qualified to do anything else! Other than make epic art. Been working on the same painting of colorful dots since 2009. Thousands and thousands of dots. None of them touch. Maybe I can sell it for a few million and retire. Now, where to find a buyer.
	9:50am Stephen O: 💜💟💜💟 good morning, Trouble and All!
	9:52am Trouble: @vivian: i would like another teaching job. I adore teaching, but i have outgrown the situation that i am in. Would love to get back to teaching college, i did that before dj icepack was born. I have been teaching high school like it's college all this time, but the students are not typically as skilled or open minded.
	9:54am Listener Gregory: Like this Jain track a lot, but I am not sure about "cultivating self-love." I think there is already quite a bit of self-love around.
	9:57am Vivian: Whenever you described projects for your class, I thought it sounded advanced for high school, basing it on my memories of hs, which frankly has been many years. Have you applied to any colleges?
	9:58am Trouble: @vivian: last year i sent my resume around to a few schools but need to activate much more this spring.
	10:01am Handy Haversack: Morning, Trouble and all the Troubled. Sorry we're late. Kittens had us up in the middle of the night!
	10:01am Vivian: @Trouble, if you haven't included Indeed and HigherEd in your job search, those sites may be a good resource. Good luck!
	10:02am Trouble: @vivian: thanks!!
	10:02am Threemoons 🌛🌕🌜: Heyo. Tardy to the party. No energy the past few days. Thankfully, I have tomorrow off; going out to Mom again on Sunday but two days of sleep sounds great.
	10:03am Threemoons 🌛🌕🌜: @HH was feline mischief were the kitties up to?
	10:04am alanr: Every week, we just sit back and enjoy this show, but someone cannot do that. She has to prepare in advance and then perform technically and with that loving voice (comforting us). It is a ton of work and commitment each week, each year, each decade. Thank you again, Trouble (whoever you are in the other world) for your talent and commitment!!
	10:05am Trouble: merci@alanr: that is very kind of you to say...
	10:06am Jason from Houston: Good morning, good people. ꒰｡• ◡ •｡꒱
	10:08am Handy Haversack: Just being themselves, Threemoons, and chasing each other to hell and back (as much as possible in three rooms of a four-room railroad). But it gets the dog nervous when it happens and we're out of commission, so he starts crying, and it's a whole thing.
	10:10am Ken From Hyde Park: @Handy - Maybe the kittens would settle down if they had their own woolen cat cave to hang out in - www.purplepet.com...
	10:11am Doug in JC: @trouble Is the announcement about in-school classes being taken badly?
	10:12am Doug in JC: Hey Handy! How's your break going?
	10:15am Listener Gregory: It is harp city here today!
	10:15am Trouble: @douginjc: my school announced remote until mid january; will re-evaluate at that point. I am not sure how the students are handling it, since it was just announced and we are not back to classes yet. i am ok with it, the numbers are insane and not all the students are vaccinated, so it makes sense to me.
	10:16am Buffalo 66: Brandee Younger -- Oh, yeas!
	10:20am Zinn The Mood: Hey Troublers. Finally got to sleep in a little… Last night finished the library-loaned James McBride book “Kill ‘Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul.” Really good, with some top philosophizing. As is my habit those passages were read into my phone notes for posterity. Will share some.
	10:20am Trouble: shout out to all the amazing annette peacock reissues that flooded us with her magic in 2021
	10:20am Doug in JC: @trouble That's good to hear. Half of my work is out with covid right now. I'm enjoying the forced isolation
	10:21am Zipperhead7: Hi folks. Just want to second what AlanR said. The amount of work that goes into this show must be formidable. How much is pre-planned and how much is winging it? Also, good luck on finding a college art gig. Chronicle of Higher Ed has many job postings and was my go-to when I was looking for an academic gig. You can access the ads free a week after they're posted. Maybe there's a website that covers area arts similar to glasstire in Texas: glasstire.com
	10:22am Listener Gregory: @ZinnTM, that is such a good book. It leaves out half the things you would expect in a musical biography, yet cuts right to the bone of Brown's roots in race and poverty, and how that affected not only his life, but the sad case of his estate after he died. Really wonderful read.
	10:22am morphe': In Madrid kitchen cooking Mini G Simon's lunch .. and stuff not looking at the screen .. thought "Wow - Trouble is on a genuine long Dub Segment.." turns out my computer jumped from Clay and W&B to Roots Massive pt.3 (70's & early 80's Reggae & Roots Reggae selection).. now clean hands so I'll go back LOOKING FOR TROUBLE = of the goodness kind
	10:22am Passaic River Blues: @Trouble: Yes! This Annette Peacock reissue was definitely a personal hit of 2021. I adore the "I'm the One" record but never really explored anything beyond that. This one has great drumming all over, including a guy from mid-era Brian Auger's Oblivion Express who is amazing.
	10:24am TDK60: Hi Handy. Sounds like poor ol' Bagpipe could use some dognip. Give him a pet from uncle T.
	10:25am uselysses: feel so grateful for an opportunity to listen to some live Trouble
	10:25am morphe': Back in the House of Good Trouble ... Like the goodness of the Blues .. The Goodness of the Trouble !!! Must to the shops as tomorrow is NYE and woodchopping sucks during holidays... Back I hope !!!! Or, Happy Trails...
	10:26am Greg from ZONE 5: Loving everything this morning, Trouble. Happy 2022 to you and yours!
	10:26am Handy Haversack: Maybe after they get jobs, Ken! Doug, it's going too fast! We did have a fun day yesterday wandering Greenpoint and Wburg to get stuff to cook tomorrow since we're not going out to dinner. I'm going to try making manicotti. Will do, TDK60!
	10:27am Trouble: hola@greg from zone5! happy happy to you too!
	10:27am morphe': Handy/K*/TDK = what is wrong with Mr BP???
	10:29am Zipperhead7: Hey Trouble, have you ever considered doing a college class on popular music studies? I did one for years and know you would do a terrific job.
	10:30am Listener Gregory: I really am not familiar with Annette Peacock, and it seems that this was a serious mistake.
	10:30am morphe': PS - Spell check Changed "Food Shopping" to "Woodchopping" Must to the shops as tomorrow is NYE and woodchopping sucks during holidays... "Must to the shops as tomorrow is NYE and Food Shopping sucks during holidays...""" Woodchopping is always cathartic for me ... Food Shopping can be but not in the holidays...
	10:30am Will the Sound Guy: Trouble, nearing the half way mark... some smooth stuff you've been spinning for us this morning!! Thank you !!!
	10:31am HyperDose: Was that Annette Peacock a Bob Iwrin remaster?
	10:31am Threemoons 🌛🌕🌜: @HH I imagine that the kitties are at an age where anything they deem a suitable Cat Cave IS one...
	10:32am Threemoons 🌛🌕🌜: I'm still full of nervous insomnia energy after Xmas...not getting enough sleep, no stregnth to shower the past few days. Was going to attempt grocery shopping after work but will probably stay in my nightie and do nothing. Tired. So tired.
	10:33am Trouble: i would love that @Zipperhead7! I wouldn't even know where to start shopping a class like that. I have incorporated music into an overall culture class i did once with film etc
	10:33am Zinn The Mood: Indeed, @LGregory. Can’t understand JB without the context of racism and poverty. Complicated dude, and lonely at his core, despite being for so many years adulated as the voice of black America. McBride’s also a musician himself, which affords him that essential inside view of the sausage-making involved with all aspects of it. Wonderful writer. Was a bit reluctant at first to read his satirical book on abolitionist John Brown, being such a radical hero to many of us (and perhaps none more than late activist comedian Dick Gregory). But it was also really good, delivered with an obvious reverence for Captain Brown but at the same time humanizing him through satire.
	10:33am Trouble: thanks@willthe sound guy!
	10:34am ChukAmok: @Threemoons Right there with you on the exhaustion front. Holidays are ROUGH.
	10:35am Jason from Houston: ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡
	10:35am Passaic River Blues: @Zinn: "The Good Lord Bird" was fantastic, up there in my personal pantheon of Brown books (incl. Banks' Cloudspitter; Redpath's autobiography; DuBois' bio).
	10:35am Zipperhead7: I'll PM you on this. I don't think anyone is doing the class where I used to work (I retired last year)
	10:36am Vivian: Sounds like Khurangbin(sp?)
	10:37am Doug in JC: @Handy I have a vegan manicotti recipe I'll have to share with you. Speaking of food, how come nobody told me about shagbark hickory nuts? They're as if walnuts tasted like maple syrup
	10:38am HyperDose: @ChukAmok And draining! Post-holidays lack of hygiene solidarity, Threemoons ✊🏾‍
	10:38am Threemoons 🌛🌕🌜: @Doug in JC apparently they are hard to shell and therefore not commercially popular. A friend of mine had a few trees on his property. Nuts were tasty but impossible to extract the meat out easily...
	10:39am Vivian: @ Doug in JC: I've been looking for manicotti shells for weeks. Can't seem to find them. Made the vegan filling before I searched for shells. I guess chalk it up to supply chain issues..
	10:39am Jason from Houston: This song riiiiiiiiiight here...
	10:40am Doug in JC: @Threemoons yeah, I'm bleeding a little bit here. Dental pick helps @vivian I just roll up lasagna sheets in a pinch. It's all a big mess anyway, at least when I make it
	10:40am Listener Gregory: I have to run. Thanks for all the work you've done throughout 2021 to bring us these lovely tunes, Trouble.
	10:40am ChukAmok: @Threemoons Absolutely correct. I am looking forward to a long weekend of being left the heck alone and refocusing. (I can't not bathe every morning, so I am a bit of a cheater.)
	10:41am morphe': Passaic - CLOUDSPLITTER is amazing ... when I hike up Tahawus/Cloudsplitter/Marcy .. I/we leave NYC at 10pm-midnight to avoid the traffic and arrive in Lake Placid in the pre-dawn ... We sleep in John Brown's Barn/Leantoo and then head out .. The rangers do not arrive until after 8-9am .. crazy wee frogs with amazing lungs... little sleep but a lot of joy
	10:41am Handy Haversack: Vivian, the recipe I'm using says basically to forget the manicotti shells and instead get fresh sheet pasta and cut it into 4" X 4" squares. Slap a spoonful of your filling in the middle, then roll into a tube and bake seam-side down. So that's what we did yesterday, went to north Wburg to get fresh pasta and house-made ricotta.
	10:42am Zinn The Mood: Ok, this Sheffield track is getting my blood-flowing to look up the McBride passages. Dig this, Trouble and the Troubled: “Here’s how the music industry in America works: a trumpet player blows a solo in a Philly nightclub in 1945. Someone slapped it on a record, and 50 years later that same solo is a final in a college jazz department, and your kid pays $60,000 a year to take the final, while the guy who blew the solo out of his guts in the first place is deader than yesterday’s rice and beans, his family is suffering from the same social illness that created his great solo, and nobody gave two hoots about the guy when he died and nobody gives two hoots about his family now. They call that capitalism, The Way of the World, Showbiz, You Gotta Suck It Up, an upcoming Movie About Diversity, and my favorite term, Cultural History. I call it fear, and it has lived in the heart of every black American musician last hundred years. That fear is nearly impossible to explain if you are not a musician who understands the sweat involved in making music. It’s rarely talked about in the music press, which plays along in pretending there are no race problems in the music business. Why shouldn’t it? Musicians of all colors get snookered by the biz. We all leave our blood on the floor for the Big Corporation, Big Brother, the Record Label, the Country and Western Community - whatever you wanna call it. The difference is this: most of us don’t walk through department stores buzzing with background music that plays ninth chords borrowed from our history. Most of us don’t know the feeling of sweating for hours over your music, then watching a foreigner from, say, England or Australia cop that music, ape their version of it, make a million, and call you a genius while they’re living high and you’re barely living.”
	10:43am Vivian: Handy & JC: I thought about doing the same with lasagna sheets. Thinking about making my own pasta next year. Would do it now but work is consuming my time at the moment..
	10:44am ChukAmok: Yo Handy! You making Raviolis?!
	10:46am Trouble: thanks @ zipperhead!!
	10:46am Handy Haversack: Manicotti, ChukAmok! Terrifying and exact, Zinn.
	10:48am Handy Haversack: (We also picked up 30 frozen artichoke ravioli while we were there, though.)
	10:50am ChukAmok: Ooh, nice! I seldom eat pasta, but was thinking of a simple aglio e olio this evening. Kind of moving closer to that idea now... Anything with artichoke is a good idea.
	10:50am HyperDose: Dang, thassa lotta raviolis Italian hand gesture
	10:51am YETI BOB: I just got back from taking our orange cat to the vet (she has asthma but she's fine). I have not had breakfast yet. I feel like I could eat 30 artichoke raviolis!!
	10:54am YETI BOB: this music is very tasty but i need some solid food, will be back later, have a great day everyone!
	10:57am Zinn The Mood: Hey HH. Have the best memories of holidays and opening the elevator doors just outside my grandparents’ 5th floor apartment in the Bronx and being enveloped in the aroma of her cooking. Inside were ironing boards covered with homemade ravioli and manicotti, an antipasto plate and a bowl with breadsticks wrapped in prosciutto slices that we kids we devour before even our shoes were off. Magical feasts. Have been making her “gravy” for years, but less frequently these days as we’re trying to use less and less meat. As amazing as her sauce is I think I prefer my own puttanesca.
	10:57am sphere: Hey there. I just found out that if your iOS WFMU app has buffering problems, just switch to a different channel and switch back. It cleared up my problem no prob.
	10:58am βrian: Our orange cat has asthma, too. It's sad to see him wheezing, but he's usually a pretty happy boy.
	10:58am steveo: ALL TUBAS ALL THE TIME! Excuse me I lost my head for a second there. Enjoying the show. Happy new year Trouble and everyone.
	10:58am ?: Everytime I am losing my mind with glee on FMU it turns out Trouble is DJ’ing. Today’s playlist is pure perfection. Here’s to more in 2022!!!! I just made a pledge because I am so moved!!!
	10:58am sphere: Hey steveo, baritone horns are cool too!
	10:59am steveo: Also that trombone solo
	11:00am sphere: Agreed, steveo
	11:02am Trouble: merci@ modern mystery person!
	11:02am steveo: a certain person I'm married to played baritone in grade school but she made them rewrite all the music in treble clef. True story.
	11:02am Handy Haversack: Mmmm, Zinn, I can imagine! I have been making a solid arrabiatta red sauce lately, and I still have a jar of that to use with the manicotti tomorrow. sphere! Was hoping you'd pop up so I could show you this: www.kickstarter.com... Maybe wouldn't be my first choice for an illustrated Vance book, but all the Wyst books are solid.
	11:04am Will the Sound Guy: I have that hot 8 brass band album, it's soo good
	11:04am βrian: Attention aux oiseaux !
	11:17am Carmichael: Heya Trubb and end of year-ers. Joan Didion lived down the road from me growing up (she was already grown up) before she hit the big time and married John Gregory Dunne. She's the pride of Sacramento.
	11:17am βrian: Oy, our neighbors are positive. They went to an all-vaxxed kids concert, and got hit.
	11:19am Carmichael: Omicron doesn't seem to care about vaccines, so we have to be ever vigilant. No mosh pits, no football games, no nothing for a while.
	11:19am sphere: @ Steve - I played baritone horn from elementary school through early college. Have you ever heard of Tuba Christmas?
	11:22am Handy Haversack: A great time to patent that home mosh-pit starter kit, Carmichael!
	11:22am sphere: @Handy - wow, that is interesting! i would have gone for the Demon Princes books but I can go with the Wyst books. btw, they are available in Kindle ebook.
	11:25am βrian: We're going to try an arrabbiata sauce, but I know we'll hear about it from Little Human. She's still early on in her chili pepper trajectory.
	11:29am Carmichael: I just finished the last John LeCarre book called Silverview, and found out he wrote a recent addition to the George Smiley series before passing. Just downloaded it last night.
	11:30am Vivian: RIP Trish Keenan. Love this band.
	11:34am Handy Haversack: I have them all in DAW mass-market pbks., sphere, with the classic yellow spines.
	11:34am drr: Clicky-starred this Felt track after five seconds or so.
	11:35am sphere: ooh--fabulous, Handy!!!! I love those DAW covers.
	11:37am Zipperhead7: Gotta head out -- peace, love and soul power in 2022, everybody!
	11:38am Zinn The Mood: Oh man, @morphe! That is so heavy and awe-inspiring! Gonna have that picture in my head next time I head up there, of you sleeping in the barn and those frogs croaking away. For a while now I’ve been thinking of trying to organize some kind of book club or something in this part of Queens, always with John Brown and James Baldwin in mind. But have wondered about both how to go about such an endeavor, and just how many people might be interested. And I put it off… Yet, one comes to the comment section of Trouble’s show and inadvertently finds almost a handful of real John Brown fans. A truly amazing place for kindred spirits; the cross-section of music and literature (and cooking, and politics, too!) is very affirming. @PR Blues last summer upstate I found an interesting academic book on Brown, called “The Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race” www.johnstauffer.org...
	11:39am Yes: Thanks for everything this year, trouble
	11:41am Will the Sound Guy: Handy, manicotti is good.... Hope Bagpipe, and the lil shredders are doing well.
	11:41am rx scabin: Thanks for the excellent show(s). Happy New Year.
	11:41am Colin in Durham UK: Lol clay smells
	11:42am The Butterman: Clay was in there for 3 hrs.! Fumigate the place!
	11:44am Handy Haversack: Thanks, Will! The Brothers Squirm are tear-assing around the place. Bagpipe is curled up next to me on the couch, waiting for the madness to end!
	11:46am Trouble: thank you for all the support and good words this past year! togetherness is powerful! that's why so many people work to separate...
	11:49am sphere: Thank you so much Trouble, happy new year to you and yours.
	11:49am HyperDose: Shows like this keep me coming back for more. Fill'er up! ⛽❤️🤠
	11:50am listener 126464: Thanks Trouble, favoriting the whole show.
	11:51am Will the Sound Guy: I'm gearing up to epoxy the floor in my basement!.... Thank you Trouble for the tunes of the modern world 🌎... I normally don't have the opportunity to chat much during you show, but when I do it looks like this... 🤔 Hopefully everyone has a great New Years, we've got my whole house on lockdown.. Much love to all!!!
	11:51am sphere: hey Handy, check out the File 770 fandom site, you might like it!
	11:52am βrian: @Will: an epoxy coating?
	11:53am Handy Haversack: Thanks for another great show and another great year of shows, Trouble. As you say: the coming-together here is one of the great defenses against that other modern world out there. Happy New Year wishes to you all!
	11:53am Will the Sound Guy: its a self leveling 2 part water based epoxy for garages and inside concrete floors
	11:53am Passaic River Blues: @Zinn: thank you for the recommendation on that Stauffer book. Will look into it. @Trouble: thank you for 2021 and beyond!
	11:53am Hubig Pie: ana roxanne makes the beautiful noises
	11:54am βrian: I've done basement floors with water-based epoxy. Not very durable, really. Good old smelly oil floor paint is the thing. But Godspeed.
	11:54am βrian: Two-part, though. That may make a difference.
	11:55am Will the Sound Guy: Brian was it 1 part in the same can, or 2 part in 2 cans to be mixed
	11:55am morphe': Thanks Trouble an all .. Happy trails in 20222...
	11:56am βrian: One part, probably faux "epoxy," now that I think of it.
	11:56am Glorious Estephonic: <3 <3 <3
	11:56am Zinn The Mood: Thanks for what you do and who you are, Trouble. As we said in Occupy, “You Are Not Alone. You Are Not A Loan. All Our Grievances Are Connected.” One more for the road from McBride: “Yet, ironically, the same man who eschewed drugs and preached toeing the straight and narrow veered off it so badly at the end of his life that he became the subject of comedy routines. The film Get On Up shows a man who was once the essence of black American pride as a wild, crazy, torn up mess, which is about right, I guess – except you could say that about a hungry three year old. It’s a perfect storm of wrong history, offered up while the man’s estate was still flying in the air for grabs, with lawyers gorging themselves on his musical carcass, which he left for the poor, not for them. The whole thing is a troubling metaphor for what the race discourse has become an American now. A troubled world, this new America, a disturbing world, where the N-word is verboten but the notion of poverty is not; a world with liars on both sides of the racial divide it will say anything and twist history anyway they can in order to gain a percentage; a nation of private for profit Supermax prison is full of young man who desperately need help, guarded by other young man who wants worked on farms and grew corn and raised cows in the very same places where those prisons now sit. A world of beer, cognac, guns, violence, nice cars, tennis shoes, and Super Bowl commercials. Jive. For us. By us. Soul to us. By ourselves. The new cultural export: American Jive. And today the lawyers argue about his estate while the guy once gave us so much pride is buried in his daughter Deanna’s front yard, his body having been deposited there while some of his children part of the idea of his home becoming a museum Sunday. By the time that “museum” opens, if it ever does, the cultural history well shifted so much that the tundra will be unrecognizable. And there’s not much more to look for in the story, really. Because the James Brown story is not about James Brown. It’s about who’s getting paid, whose interest is involved, who can squeeze the estate and black history for more. It’s all in the hands of the executors, the lawyers, Brown’s children, his ex-wife, his ex friends. It’s about how that whole pot gets passed around. It’s reflective of the sad state and American popular emporium these days, where for the last decade talent shows judged by stars whose names will forget five minutes past breakfast decide who has “talent” in America, while songs like “Bitch Better Have My Money” climb the charts. Maybe that’s the kind of song we always wanted. Maybe it’s a song we all deserve. But it wasn’t the song Brown had in mind.”
	11:56am Will the Sound Guy: gotcha, I tried that... it was junky. take care everyone!!
	11:56am ryansterlingvirtue: Absolutely fantastic set today. Kept me anxiety-free from philly to upstate. Thanks Trouble!
	11:57am Trouble: see you in 2022222222222 everybody stay safe! booster that vaccine magic!
	11:57am Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks, Trouble. Putting our troubles behind us for another fine year!
	11:58am βrian: David D has settled in the lead car on the Drummer Stream: wfmu.org...
	11:59am melinda: Thanks Trub, happy new year in advance
	11:59am Michael 98145: Good-bye, 2021. And good Riddance.
	12:00pm kevlicki: Be well trouble and all!
	4:51am Howling Rabbit: Jeez, how annoying was that Annette Peacock track...

This Is The Modern World with Trouble: Playlist from December 30, 2021

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December 30, 2021: music life

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(* = new)

Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	New	Approx. start time
dorothy ashby	the moving finger "the moving finger" by "dorothy ashby"	The Rubáiyát Of Dorothy Ashby					0:00:00 (Pop-up)
eboni band	fasso ( motherhood) "fasso ( motherhood)" by "eboni band"	eboni band	We Are Busy Bodies	1980/2021		*	0:05:48 (Pop-up)
Brian Jackson, Ali Shaheed Muhammad, Adrian Younge, Ahya Simone, Dez Andrès, Shigeto	nancy wilson	JID008	jazz is dead			*	0:14:22 (Pop-up)
lee hazelwood	my autumn's done come	The Very Special World Of Lee Hazlewood					0:17:37 (Pop-up)
alpha	somewhere not here "somewhere not here" by "alpha"	come from heaven					0:20:56 (Pop-up)
mabe fratti	que me hace saber esto	Será Que Ahora Podremos Entendernos				*	0:28:07 (Pop-up)
claudia thompson	i'm through with love ( with barney kessel)	goodbye to love	sundazed	1959/2021		*	0:31:13 (Pop-up)
Dezron Douglas & Brandee Younger	this woman's work	force majeure					0:33:51 (Pop-up)

arushi jain	cultivating self love	under the lilac sky	leaving records				0:46:33 (Pop-up)
fatima al qadiri	stolen kiss of a succubus	Medieval Femme				*	0:55:15 (Pop-up)
rodrigo amarante	tao "tao" by "rodrigo amarante"	drama					0:58:51 (Pop-up)
kendra morris	this life "this life" by "kendra morris"	Colemine Records Presents: Brighter Days to Come v/a	Colemine Records				1:03:20 (Pop-up)

brandee younger	spirit u will "spirit u will" by "brandee younger"	Somewhere Different				*	1:09:15 (Pop-up)
annette peacock	survival "survival" by "annette peacock"	the perfect release	sundazed	1979/2021			1:15:35 (Pop-up)
curtis harding	if words were flowers	if words were flowers	anti-			*	1:30:15 (Pop-up)
Khruangbin	right "right" by "Khruangbin"	modern love v/a					1:37:00 (Pop-up)
alliah sheffield	earth is ghetto "earth is ghetto" by "alliah sheffield"						1:38:06 (Pop-up)
park hye jin	Let's Sing Let's Dance	let's sing let's dance					1:40:19 (Pop-up)
helado negro	outide the outside "outide the outside" by "helado negro"	far in	4AD			*	1:43:59 (Pop-up)
vibratitos	left jab "left jab" by "vibratitos"	wollesonic loves trouble v/a	wollesonic				1:49:02 (Pop-up)
hot 8 brass band	give me the night	take cover ep					1:54:39 (Pop-up)
Nikki Giovanni	the way i feel "the way i feel" by "Nikki Giovanni"	the way i feel	modern harmonic	1975/2021		*	2:01:20 (Pop-up)

henri salvador	et des mandolines "et des mandolines" by "henri salvador"	Homme Studio 1970-1975					2:09:18 (Pop-up)
Beautify Junkyards	reverie with nina miranda	Cosmorama					2:11:30 (Pop-up)
foodman	minsyuku "minsyuku" by "foodman"	yasuragi land					2:15:29 (Pop-up)
John Carroll Kirby	tenderfoot pegasus				Single		2:18:33 (Pop-up)
vanessa	the line "the line" by "vanessa"	sou					2:24:20 (Pop-up)
broadcast	tender buttons "tender buttons" by "broadcast"	tender butoons					2:26:52 (Pop-up)
arlo parks	too good ( unknown mortal orchestra remix)						2:29:31 (Pop-up)
felt	my face is on fire "my face is on fire" by "felt"	pillows and prayers vol 1					2:33:09 (Pop-up)
grouper	unclean mind "unclean mind" by "grouper"	shade	kranky			*	2:36:35 (Pop-up)

Bremer McCoy	hjertebarn "hjertebarn" by "Bremer McCoy"	natten	luaka bop			*	2:43:29 (Pop-up)
ana roxanne	suite pour l'invisible	becasue of a flower					2:47:12 (Pop-up)
nailah hunter	quiet light "quiet light" by "nailah hunter"	spells	leaving records				2:54:23 (Pop-up)
lido pimienta	eso que tu haces "eso que tu haces" by "lido pimienta"	miss columbia					2:55:35 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	9:01am Will the Sound Guy: Hello, DJ Trouble and all!
	9:01am Strandlund: Nothing but...Trouble!!
	9:02am HyperDose: Floating on down the radio river
	9:02am the Hurston moor-elf: there's Trouble afoot...
	9:02am Hi from Holland: Aloha!
	9:03am Robm: Hello trouble and fellow troublemakers
	9:04am Trouble: good morning last thursday of 2021 people!
	9:05am listener james from westwood: Good Thursday, Trouble and all!
	9:07am Ken From Hyde Park: Good morning, Trouble and troupe.
	9:08am Mike W: happy Trouble show everyone it is l’raining out and the Field will be too wet to report from; we’re taking this show on the road (which is also wet)
	9:09am melinda: Morning everyone!
	9:11am melinda: For some reason I set my alarm for an hour later than intended and I’ve got the groggies from sleeping in
	9:11am Passaic River Blues: Great portrait of Ms. Didion. RIP to one of the United States' greatest essayists and stylists to have ever put pen to paper.
	9:14am Webhamster Henry: Hello and welcome to the 2021 end times of the Modern World!
	9:17am MD: Hello Gang! Keep Stayin' Safe....Like Life...Virus finds a way...XO!
	9:18am Irene Trudel: Happy almost New Year Trouble and Modern Worldly people! 2021 wasn't as vile as 2020, but I'm eager for it to be gone. This lovely music helps!
	9:19am Ken From Hyde Park: The mid-term election coming up in 2022 will likely determine how soon the end times arrive.
	9:20am dale: never heard lee hazlewood sing this smoothly.
	9:21am DonJuanTijuana: Love the vibe Trouble!! I thought this was Scott Walker at first
	9:21am Trouble: sooooo i guess that lee hazelwood track is where alpha got this loop...
	9:22am listener james from westwood: Aw damn, I was wondering why I had trip-hop on the mind here! There we go!
	9:23am Zimharry: @Trouble..........and both these tracks taking me into the deep, black hole of solitary reverie........
	9:24am JD in Mtl: Beautiful vibes this morning...Merci beaucoup!
	9:24am StringOFperils: I love My Autumn's Done Come. It's like he's resigned to....something....leaving the world behind. Good for leaving this year behind.
	9:26am Zimharry: ...keep them coming...........ahhhhh
	9:27am Baja Joe: Nice.
	9:29am BVP: whew that was beautiful.
	9:32am Passaic River Blues: What a set!
	9:32am ben & Reba: Peace to trouble
	9:32am HyperDose: This is an anthem
	9:34am Mike W: more like love is through with me, am i ri–... [falls over dead]
	9:34am Baja Joe: I could swear that was Beth Gibbons on vocals on the Alpha tune. Loved it all the same.
	9:35am YETI BOB: yes to everything
	9:35am Mike W: I’m conditioned to think any guitar player like the one on the Claudia Thompson song is Barney Kessel
	9:36am Hughie Considine: Well this is more than a little sublime...
	9:36am jameson57: Kate Bush! This set of music is so good, Trouble. But you already knew that.
	9:38am Hughie Considine: I'd love to hear more of Kate Bush's music give this treatment.
	9:42am Listener Gregory: I am in The Modern World, but I am not of The Modern World.
	9:43am Passaic River Blues: I think Brandee Younger will be playing a live set for New Year's Eve on WBGO and other affiliates. I mean, I'll probably have Billy Jam and Fine Wine on, but worth noting.
	9:43am PKNY: Such a great opening set, just went clicky-star crazy! And cosign on "Force Majeure", my favorite record of 2020, and the record that I'll most associate with the COVID period.
	9:43am unpopularfred: I was totally sure claudia thompson was Chet Baker. Am I broken?
	9:44am The Butterman: Oh damn, I lived on Bowen St for 3 years.
	9:46am Dottore Sooza: And to think I saw it all on Bowen Street!
	9:47am TDK60: Good morning, Trouble.
	9:49am Vivian: @ Trouble if you quit teaching, what would you like to do?
	9:49am The Butterman: Preach Trouble! I’m high school art teacher too. I’m ready to do something else too. Unfortunately I’m just not qualified to do anything else! Other than make epic art. Been working on the same painting of colorful dots since 2009. Thousands and thousands of dots. None of them touch. Maybe I can sell it for a few million and retire. Now, where to find a buyer.
	9:50am Stephen O: 💜💟💜💟 good morning, Trouble and All!
	9:52am Trouble: @vivian: i would like another teaching job. I adore teaching, but i have outgrown the situation that i am in. Would love to get back to teaching college, i did that before dj icepack was born. I have been teaching high school like it's college all this time, but the students are not typically as skilled or open minded.
	9:54am Listener Gregory: Like this Jain track a lot, but I am not sure about "cultivating self-love." I think there is already quite a bit of self-love around.
	9:57am Vivian: Whenever you described projects for your class, I thought it sounded advanced for high school, basing it on my memories of hs, which frankly has been many years. Have you applied to any colleges?
	9:58am Trouble: @vivian: last year i sent my resume around to a few schools but need to activate much more this spring.
	10:01am Handy Haversack: Morning, Trouble and all the Troubled. Sorry we're late. Kittens had us up in the middle of the night!
	10:01am Vivian: @Trouble, if you haven't included Indeed and HigherEd in your job search, those sites may be a good resource. Good luck!
	10:02am Trouble: @vivian: thanks!!
	10:02am Threemoons 🌛🌕🌜: Heyo. Tardy to the party. No energy the past few days. Thankfully, I have tomorrow off; going out to Mom again on Sunday but two days of sleep sounds great.
	10:03am Threemoons 🌛🌕🌜: @HH was feline mischief were the kitties up to?
	10:04am alanr: Every week, we just sit back and enjoy this show, but someone cannot do that. She has to prepare in advance and then perform technically and with that loving voice (comforting us). It is a ton of work and commitment each week, each year, each decade. Thank you again, Trouble (whoever you are in the other world) for your talent and commitment!!
	10:05am Trouble: merci@alanr: that is very kind of you to say...
	10:06am Jason from Houston: Good morning, good people. ꒰｡• ◡ •｡꒱
	10:08am Handy Haversack: Just being themselves, Threemoons, and chasing each other to hell and back (as much as possible in three rooms of a four-room railroad). But it gets the dog nervous when it happens and we're out of commission, so he starts crying, and it's a whole thing.
	10:10am Ken From Hyde Park: @Handy - Maybe the kittens would settle down if they had their own woolen cat cave to hang out in - www.purplepet.com...
	10:11am Doug in JC: @trouble Is the announcement about in-school classes being taken badly?
	10:12am Doug in JC: Hey Handy! How's your break going?
	10:15am Listener Gregory: It is harp city here today!
	10:15am Trouble: @douginjc: my school announced remote until mid january; will re-evaluate at that point. I am not sure how the students are handling it, since it was just announced and we are not back to classes yet. i am ok with it, the numbers are insane and not all the students are vaccinated, so it makes sense to me.
	10:16am Buffalo 66: Brandee Younger -- Oh, yeas!
	10:20am Zinn The Mood: Hey Troublers. Finally got to sleep in a little… Last night finished the library-loaned James McBride book “Kill ‘Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul.” Really good, with some top philosophizing. As is my habit those passages were read into my phone notes for posterity. Will share some.
	10:20am Trouble: shout out to all the amazing annette peacock reissues that flooded us with her magic in 2021
	10:20am Doug in JC: @trouble That's good to hear. Half of my work is out with covid right now. I'm enjoying the forced isolation
	10:21am Zipperhead7: Hi folks. Just want to second what AlanR said. The amount of work that goes into this show must be formidable. How much is pre-planned and how much is winging it? Also, good luck on finding a college art gig. Chronicle of Higher Ed has many job postings and was my go-to when I was looking for an academic gig. You can access the ads free a week after they're posted. Maybe there's a website that covers area arts similar to glasstire in Texas: glasstire.com
	10:22am Listener Gregory: @ZinnTM, that is such a good book. It leaves out half the things you would expect in a musical biography, yet cuts right to the bone of Brown's roots in race and poverty, and how that affected not only his life, but the sad case of his estate after he died. Really wonderful read.
	10:22am morphe': In Madrid kitchen cooking Mini G Simon's lunch .. and stuff not looking at the screen .. thought "Wow - Trouble is on a genuine long Dub Segment.." turns out my computer jumped from Clay and W&B to Roots Massive pt.3 (70's & early 80's Reggae & Roots Reggae selection).. now clean hands so I'll go back LOOKING FOR TROUBLE = of the goodness kind
	10:22am Passaic River Blues: @Trouble: Yes! This Annette Peacock reissue was definitely a personal hit of 2021. I adore the "I'm the One" record but never really explored anything beyond that. This one has great drumming all over, including a guy from mid-era Brian Auger's Oblivion Express who is amazing.
	10:24am TDK60: Hi Handy. Sounds like poor ol' Bagpipe could use some dognip. Give him a pet from uncle T.
	10:25am uselysses: feel so grateful for an opportunity to listen to some live Trouble
	10:25am morphe': Back in the House of Good Trouble ... Like the goodness of the Blues .. The Goodness of the Trouble !!! Must to the shops as tomorrow is NYE and woodchopping sucks during holidays... Back I hope !!!! Or, Happy Trails...
	10:26am Greg from ZONE 5: Loving everything this morning, Trouble. Happy 2022 to you and yours!
	10:26am Handy Haversack: Maybe after they get jobs, Ken! Doug, it's going too fast! We did have a fun day yesterday wandering Greenpoint and Wburg to get stuff to cook tomorrow since we're not going out to dinner. I'm going to try making manicotti. Will do, TDK60!
	10:27am Trouble: hola@greg from zone5! happy happy to you too!
	10:27am morphe': Handy/K*/TDK = what is wrong with Mr BP???
	10:29am Zipperhead7: Hey Trouble, have you ever considered doing a college class on popular music studies? I did one for years and know you would do a terrific job.
	10:30am Listener Gregory: I really am not familiar with Annette Peacock, and it seems that this was a serious mistake.
	10:30am morphe': PS - Spell check Changed "Food Shopping" to "Woodchopping" Must to the shops as tomorrow is NYE and woodchopping sucks during holidays... "Must to the shops as tomorrow is NYE and Food Shopping sucks during holidays...""" Woodchopping is always cathartic for me ... Food Shopping can be but not in the holidays...
	10:30am Will the Sound Guy: Trouble, nearing the half way mark... some smooth stuff you've been spinning for us this morning!! Thank you !!!
	10:31am HyperDose: Was that Annette Peacock a Bob Iwrin remaster?
	10:31am Threemoons 🌛🌕🌜: @HH I imagine that the kitties are at an age where anything they deem a suitable Cat Cave IS one...
	10:32am Threemoons 🌛🌕🌜: I'm still full of nervous insomnia energy after Xmas...not getting enough sleep, no stregnth to shower the past few days. Was going to attempt grocery shopping after work but will probably stay in my nightie and do nothing. Tired. So tired.
	10:33am Trouble: i would love that @Zipperhead7! I wouldn't even know where to start shopping a class like that. I have incorporated music into an overall culture class i did once with film etc
	10:33am Zinn The Mood: Indeed, @LGregory. Can’t understand JB without the context of racism and poverty. Complicated dude, and lonely at his core, despite being for so many years adulated as the voice of black America. McBride’s also a musician himself, which affords him that essential inside view of the sausage-making involved with all aspects of it. Wonderful writer. Was a bit reluctant at first to read his satirical book on abolitionist John Brown, being such a radical hero to many of us (and perhaps none more than late activist comedian Dick Gregory). But it was also really good, delivered with an obvious reverence for Captain Brown but at the same time humanizing him through satire.
	10:33am Trouble: thanks@willthe sound guy!
	10:34am ChukAmok: @Threemoons Right there with you on the exhaustion front. Holidays are ROUGH.
	10:35am Jason from Houston: ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡
	10:35am Passaic River Blues: @Zinn: "The Good Lord Bird" was fantastic, up there in my personal pantheon of Brown books (incl. Banks' Cloudspitter; Redpath's autobiography; DuBois' bio).
	10:35am Zipperhead7: I'll PM you on this. I don't think anyone is doing the class where I used to work (I retired last year)
	10:36am Vivian: Sounds like Khurangbin(sp?)
	10:37am Doug in JC: @Handy I have a vegan manicotti recipe I'll have to share with you. Speaking of food, how come nobody told me about shagbark hickory nuts? They're as if walnuts tasted like maple syrup
	10:38am HyperDose: @ChukAmok And draining! Post-holidays lack of hygiene solidarity, Threemoons ✊🏾‍
	10:38am Threemoons 🌛🌕🌜: @Doug in JC apparently they are hard to shell and therefore not commercially popular. A friend of mine had a few trees on his property. Nuts were tasty but impossible to extract the meat out easily...
	10:39am Vivian: @ Doug in JC: I've been looking for manicotti shells for weeks. Can't seem to find them. Made the vegan filling before I searched for shells. I guess chalk it up to supply chain issues..
	10:39am Jason from Houston: This song riiiiiiiiiight here...
	10:40am Doug in JC: @Threemoons yeah, I'm bleeding a little bit here. Dental pick helps @vivian I just roll up lasagna sheets in a pinch. It's all a big mess anyway, at least when I make it
	10:40am Listener Gregory: I have to run. Thanks for all the work you've done throughout 2021 to bring us these lovely tunes, Trouble.
	10:40am ChukAmok: @Threemoons Absolutely correct. I am looking forward to a long weekend of being left the heck alone and refocusing. (I can't not bathe every morning, so I am a bit of a cheater.)
	10:41am morphe': Passaic - CLOUDSPLITTER is amazing ... when I hike up Tahawus/Cloudsplitter/Marcy .. I/we leave NYC at 10pm-midnight to avoid the traffic and arrive in Lake Placid in the pre-dawn ... We sleep in John Brown's Barn/Leantoo and then head out .. The rangers do not arrive until after 8-9am .. crazy wee frogs with amazing lungs... little sleep but a lot of joy
	10:41am Handy Haversack: Vivian, the recipe I'm using says basically to forget the manicotti shells and instead get fresh sheet pasta and cut it into 4" X 4" squares. Slap a spoonful of your filling in the middle, then roll into a tube and bake seam-side down. So that's what we did yesterday, went to north Wburg to get fresh pasta and house-made ricotta.
	10:42am Zinn The Mood: Ok, this Sheffield track is getting my blood-flowing to look up the McBride passages. Dig this, Trouble and the Troubled: “Here’s how the music industry in America works: a trumpet player blows a solo in a Philly nightclub in 1945. Someone slapped it on a record, and 50 years later that same solo is a final in a college jazz department, and your kid pays $60,000 a year to take the final, while the guy who blew the solo out of his guts in the first place is deader than yesterday’s rice and beans, his family is suffering from the same social illness that created his great solo, and nobody gave two hoots about the guy when he died and nobody gives two hoots about his family now. They call that capitalism, The Way of the World, Showbiz, You Gotta Suck It Up, an upcoming Movie About Diversity, and my favorite term, Cultural History. I call it fear, and it has lived in the heart of every black American musician last hundred years. That fear is nearly impossible to explain if you are not a musician who understands the sweat involved in making music. It’s rarely talked about in the music press, which plays along in pretending there are no race problems in the music business. Why shouldn’t it? Musicians of all colors get snookered by the biz. We all leave our blood on the floor for the Big Corporation, Big Brother, the Record Label, the Country and Western Community - whatever you wanna call it. The difference is this: most of us don’t walk through department stores buzzing with background music that plays ninth chords borrowed from our history. Most of us don’t know the feeling of sweating for hours over your music, then watching a foreigner from, say, England or Australia cop that music, ape their version of it, make a million, and call you a genius while they’re living high and you’re barely living.”
	10:43am Vivian: Handy & JC: I thought about doing the same with lasagna sheets. Thinking about making my own pasta next year. Would do it now but work is consuming my time at the moment..
	10:44am ChukAmok: Yo Handy! You making Raviolis?!
	10:46am Trouble: thanks @ zipperhead!!
	10:46am Handy Haversack: Manicotti, ChukAmok! Terrifying and exact, Zinn.
	10:48am Handy Haversack: (We also picked up 30 frozen artichoke ravioli while we were there, though.)
	10:50am ChukAmok: Ooh, nice! I seldom eat pasta, but was thinking of a simple aglio e olio this evening. Kind of moving closer to that idea now... Anything with artichoke is a good idea.
	10:50am HyperDose: Dang, thassa lotta raviolis Italian hand gesture
	10:51am YETI BOB: I just got back from taking our orange cat to the vet (she has asthma but she's fine). I have not had breakfast yet. I feel like I could eat 30 artichoke raviolis!!
	10:54am YETI BOB: this music is very tasty but i need some solid food, will be back later, have a great day everyone!
	10:57am Zinn The Mood: Hey HH. Have the best memories of holidays and opening the elevator doors just outside my grandparents’ 5th floor apartment in the Bronx and being enveloped in the aroma of her cooking. Inside were ironing boards covered with homemade ravioli and manicotti, an antipasto plate and a bowl with breadsticks wrapped in prosciutto slices that we kids we devour before even our shoes were off. Magical feasts. Have been making her “gravy” for years, but less frequently these days as we’re trying to use less and less meat. As amazing as her sauce is I think I prefer my own puttanesca.
	10:57am sphere: Hey there. I just found out that if your iOS WFMU app has buffering problems, just switch to a different channel and switch back. It cleared up my problem no prob.
	10:58am βrian: Our orange cat has asthma, too. It's sad to see him wheezing, but he's usually a pretty happy boy.
	10:58am steveo: ALL TUBAS ALL THE TIME! Excuse me I lost my head for a second there. Enjoying the show. Happy new year Trouble and everyone.
	10:58am ?: Everytime I am losing my mind with glee on FMU it turns out Trouble is DJ’ing. Today’s playlist is pure perfection. Here’s to more in 2022!!!! I just made a pledge because I am so moved!!!
	10:58am sphere: Hey steveo, baritone horns are cool too!
	10:59am steveo: Also that trombone solo
	11:00am sphere: Agreed, steveo
	11:02am Trouble: merci@ modern mystery person!
	11:02am steveo: a certain person I'm married to played baritone in grade school but she made them rewrite all the music in treble clef. True story.
	11:02am Handy Haversack: Mmmm, Zinn, I can imagine! I have been making a solid arrabiatta red sauce lately, and I still have a jar of that to use with the manicotti tomorrow. sphere! Was hoping you'd pop up so I could show you this: www.kickstarter.com... Maybe wouldn't be my first choice for an illustrated Vance book, but all the Wyst books are solid.
	11:04am Will the Sound Guy: I have that hot 8 brass band album, it's soo good
	11:04am βrian: Attention aux oiseaux !
	11:17am Carmichael: Heya Trubb and end of year-ers. Joan Didion lived down the road from me growing up (she was already grown up) before she hit the big time and married John Gregory Dunne. She's the pride of Sacramento.
	11:17am βrian: Oy, our neighbors are positive. They went to an all-vaxxed kids concert, and got hit.
	11:19am Carmichael: Omicron doesn't seem to care about vaccines, so we have to be ever vigilant. No mosh pits, no football games, no nothing for a while.
	11:19am sphere: @ Steve - I played baritone horn from elementary school through early college. Have you ever heard of Tuba Christmas?
	11:22am Handy Haversack: A great time to patent that home mosh-pit starter kit, Carmichael!
	11:22am sphere: @Handy - wow, that is interesting! i would have gone for the Demon Princes books but I can go with the Wyst books. btw, they are available in Kindle ebook.
	11:25am βrian: We're going to try an arrabbiata sauce, but I know we'll hear about it from Little Human. She's still early on in her chili pepper trajectory.
	11:29am Carmichael: I just finished the last John LeCarre book called Silverview, and found out he wrote a recent addition to the George Smiley series before passing. Just downloaded it last night.
	11:30am Vivian: RIP Trish Keenan. Love this band.
	11:34am Handy Haversack: I have them all in DAW mass-market pbks., sphere, with the classic yellow spines.
	11:34am drr: Clicky-starred this Felt track after five seconds or so.
	11:35am sphere: ooh--fabulous, Handy!!!! I love those DAW covers.
	11:37am Zipperhead7: Gotta head out -- peace, love and soul power in 2022, everybody!
	11:38am Zinn The Mood: Oh man, @morphe! That is so heavy and awe-inspiring! Gonna have that picture in my head next time I head up there, of you sleeping in the barn and those frogs croaking away. For a while now I’ve been thinking of trying to organize some kind of book club or something in this part of Queens, always with John Brown and James Baldwin in mind. But have wondered about both how to go about such an endeavor, and just how many people might be interested. And I put it off… Yet, one comes to the comment section of Trouble’s show and inadvertently finds almost a handful of real John Brown fans. A truly amazing place for kindred spirits; the cross-section of music and literature (and cooking, and politics, too!) is very affirming. @PR Blues last summer upstate I found an interesting academic book on Brown, called “The Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race” www.johnstauffer.org...
	11:39am Yes: Thanks for everything this year, trouble
	11:41am Will the Sound Guy: Handy, manicotti is good.... Hope Bagpipe, and the lil shredders are doing well.
	11:41am rx scabin: Thanks for the excellent show(s). Happy New Year.
	11:41am Colin in Durham UK: Lol clay smells
	11:42am The Butterman: Clay was in there for 3 hrs.! Fumigate the place!
	11:44am Handy Haversack: Thanks, Will! The Brothers Squirm are tear-assing around the place. Bagpipe is curled up next to me on the couch, waiting for the madness to end!
	11:46am Trouble: thank you for all the support and good words this past year! togetherness is powerful! that's why so many people work to separate...
	11:49am sphere: Thank you so much Trouble, happy new year to you and yours.
	11:49am HyperDose: Shows like this keep me coming back for more. Fill'er up! ⛽❤️🤠
	11:50am listener 126464: Thanks Trouble, favoriting the whole show.
	11:51am Will the Sound Guy: I'm gearing up to epoxy the floor in my basement!.... Thank you Trouble for the tunes of the modern world 🌎... I normally don't have the opportunity to chat much during you show, but when I do it looks like this... 🤔 Hopefully everyone has a great New Years, we've got my whole house on lockdown.. Much love to all!!!
	11:51am sphere: hey Handy, check out the File 770 fandom site, you might like it!
	11:52am βrian: @Will: an epoxy coating?
	11:53am Handy Haversack: Thanks for another great show and another great year of shows, Trouble. As you say: the coming-together here is one of the great defenses against that other modern world out there. Happy New Year wishes to you all!
	11:53am Will the Sound Guy: its a self leveling 2 part water based epoxy for garages and inside concrete floors
	11:53am Passaic River Blues: @Zinn: thank you for the recommendation on that Stauffer book. Will look into it. @Trouble: thank you for 2021 and beyond!
	11:53am Hubig Pie: ana roxanne makes the beautiful noises
	11:54am βrian: I've done basement floors with water-based epoxy. Not very durable, really. Good old smelly oil floor paint is the thing. But Godspeed.
	11:54am βrian: Two-part, though. That may make a difference.
	11:55am Will the Sound Guy: Brian was it 1 part in the same can, or 2 part in 2 cans to be mixed
	11:55am morphe': Thanks Trouble an all .. Happy trails in 20222...
	11:56am βrian: One part, probably faux "epoxy," now that I think of it.
	11:56am Glorious Estephonic: <3 <3 <3
	11:56am Zinn The Mood: Thanks for what you do and who you are, Trouble. As we said in Occupy, “You Are Not Alone. You Are Not A Loan. All Our Grievances Are Connected.” One more for the road from McBride: “Yet, ironically, the same man who eschewed drugs and preached toeing the straight and narrow veered off it so badly at the end of his life that he became the subject of comedy routines. The film Get On Up shows a man who was once the essence of black American pride as a wild, crazy, torn up mess, which is about right, I guess – except you could say that about a hungry three year old. It’s a perfect storm of wrong history, offered up while the man’s estate was still flying in the air for grabs, with lawyers gorging themselves on his musical carcass, which he left for the poor, not for them. The whole thing is a troubling metaphor for what the race discourse has become an American now. A troubled world, this new America, a disturbing world, where the N-word is verboten but the notion of poverty is not; a world with liars on both sides of the racial divide it will say anything and twist history anyway they can in order to gain a percentage; a nation of private for profit Supermax prison is full of young man who desperately need help, guarded by other young man who wants worked on farms and grew corn and raised cows in the very same places where those prisons now sit. A world of beer, cognac, guns, violence, nice cars, tennis shoes, and Super Bowl commercials. Jive. For us. By us. Soul to us. By ourselves. The new cultural export: American Jive. And today the lawyers argue about his estate while the guy once gave us so much pride is buried in his daughter Deanna’s front yard, his body having been deposited there while some of his children part of the idea of his home becoming a museum Sunday. By the time that “museum” opens, if it ever does, the cultural history well shifted so much that the tundra will be unrecognizable. And there’s not much more to look for in the story, really. Because the James Brown story is not about James Brown. It’s about who’s getting paid, whose interest is involved, who can squeeze the estate and black history for more. It’s all in the hands of the executors, the lawyers, Brown’s children, his ex-wife, his ex friends. It’s about how that whole pot gets passed around. It’s reflective of the sad state and American popular emporium these days, where for the last decade talent shows judged by stars whose names will forget five minutes past breakfast decide who has “talent” in America, while songs like “Bitch Better Have My Money” climb the charts. Maybe that’s the kind of song we always wanted. Maybe it’s a song we all deserve. But it wasn’t the song Brown had in mind.”
	11:56am Will the Sound Guy: gotcha, I tried that... it was junky. take care everyone!!
	11:56am ryansterlingvirtue: Absolutely fantastic set today. Kept me anxiety-free from philly to upstate. Thanks Trouble!
	11:57am Trouble: see you in 2022222222222 everybody stay safe! booster that vaccine magic!
	11:57am Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks, Trouble. Putting our troubles behind us for another fine year!
	11:58am βrian: David D has settled in the lead car on the Drummer Stream: wfmu.org...
	11:59am melinda: Thanks Trub, happy new year in advance
	11:59am Michael 98145: Good-bye, 2021. And good Riddance.
	12:00pm kevlicki: Be well trouble and all!
	4:51am Howling Rabbit: Jeez, how annoying was that Annette Peacock track...

This Is The Modern World with Trouble: Playlist from December 30, 2021

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