WFMU: Shrunken Planet with Jeffrey Davison: Playlist from April 18, 2020

Listener comments!
	6:02am testingwithfire: good morning Jeffrey and ShrunkenVolk from Chile in autumn
	6:02am Ruth Booth: Good Morning!
	♥ 6:03am Sem: Good morning, Jeffrey, hello, TwF, Ruth Booth!
	6:04am Toothgrinder Tom: Morning WFMUers
	6:05am Aaron Working In Newark: good morning Jeffrey
	6:09am Jon Etter: Good morning, Jeffrey, Ruth, and Shrunken Planeteers! Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, U.S.A. reporting in this morning.
	♥ 6:10am Nulsh: Goooooooooood mornin' amigos!
	♥ 6:10am BVP: wow
	♥ 6:10am Jeffrey Davison: Good morning testingwithfire, Ruth Booth, Sem, Toothgrinder Tom, Aaron Working In Newark, and Jon Etter, Nulsh....glad to be here to bring you the sounds. Actually, Ruth is bringing the sounds, I'm just doing the comments and playlist update...
	♥ 6:11am Nulsh: This is totally captivating!
	6:12am testingwithfire: spooky sounds, sounds like a coven conference
	♥ 6:14am Jeffrey Davison: Leach is a great composer, and also the person most responsible for keeping the music of Julius Eastman alive. Eastman died long ago, and finding his recordings etc, was a huge task. Many of Eastman's recordings have now been issued. One or two are reissues, if I'm not mistaken, but most were never released.
	♥ 6:16am Jeffrey Davison: Meredith Monk, another favorite of mine, and a major figure in the last half century!
	6:17am Andrew in Etobicoke: Good morning Jeffrey and all other Planeteers.
	6:17am Marshland: Eastman's "Femenine" is certainly worth getting, recently reissued.
	♥ 6:19am Jeffrey Davison: Good morning Andrew in Etobicoke, and Marshland (agreed, that's a good one).
	♥ 6:22am Jeffrey Davison: I smartened up, by transferring my coffee from the French press to a thermos, so I'm actually drinking hot coffee. What an innovation, what genius!
	6:25am Kevino: Beautiful snowfall in the Catskills this morning, I hope it's not my last.
	♥ 6:29am Jeffrey Davison: Kevino, glad you got some snow up there. Are you okay? Your comment is worrisome...
	6:29am LiXiviated Life: “I am waiting for my case to come up and I am waiting for a rebirth of wonder and I am waiting for someone to really discover America and wail” - Lawrence F.
	♥ 6:33am Jeffrey Davison: LiXiviated Life, thanks for the Ferlinghetti, that's a good one.
	♥ 6:35am Jeffrey Davison: Rebirth of Wonder is also the name of a great and forgotten LP by Didi Favreau, 1969 on the RSVP label. Kind of a jazz/rock/folk hybrid. There was a CD reissue at some point (not sure if legit or a bootleg) but that seems to be scarcer than the LP.
	6:37am Kevino: Morning Jeffery, I'm OK, just a touch of meloncoly. Thanks for your concern.
	♥ 6:39am Jeffrey Davison: Kevino, I hear you. For me, being inside 23 hours a day doesn't seem healthy, and it's hard to fight off the melancholy. Trying to stay active, and that's a battle...
	♥ 6:39am duke: Good morning Planet shrinkers
	♥ 6:41am Jeffrey Davison: Good morning, duke...
	6:46am testingwithfire: Lovely and surprising show this morning. I'm hearing what sound like Japanese strings at the moment.
	♥ 6:48am Jeffrey Davison: testingwithfire: thanks. This is actually a National steel guitar.
	6:50am testingwithfire: @Jeffrey thanks. I had just seen a pic of Toshiro Mifune on Twitter :-)
	♥ 6:50am Nulsh: A National? Woah. Getting some great sounds.
	♥ 6:50am Jeffrey Davison: I was trying to find information on Christopher Tree. After living in Europe for 23 years, he came back to the US, and was living on the West Coast, and evidently still performing. There was another CD put out by Cardas that had more of his music. Most of the information I find is basically from the Spontaneous Sound LP/CD issue.
	♥ 6:51am Jeffrey Davison: Nulsh: yeah, Lawler is a great player. Not tons of recordings. Did two LPs with Pelt, at least.
	♥ 6:56am Nulsh: Cheers Jeffrey! The Pelt connection now makes sense to me. I'll go check him out.
	♥ 6:57am Brian in UK: Hello Jeffrey and the Tardis Queen.
	6:58am Ruth Booth: Happy Saturday, Brian.
	♥ 6:59am Jeffrey Davison: As I mentioned on an earlier comment, and contrary to my mic break, there was a 1998 CD on Cardas with more music by Christopher Tree, I guess from that era and not early recordings.
	♥ 6:59am Jeffrey Davison: Nulsh: good idea! Welcome Brian in UK.
	♥ 7:01am Brian in UK: We have rain today, not a bad thing after two weeks of sun. Should bring on the new plantings and weeds. Hope all is well over your way. Cabin fever rules.
	♥ 7:04am TDK60: Hello. I was just dreaming, meeting a prospective roommate. I would've okayed him to move in, but it was a dream and I woke up.
	♥ 7:07am Jeffrey Davison: Brian in UK: that sounds like a good thing. Good luck with your garden. TDK60: ha! I'm sure we're all having weirder dreams than usual now. I sure am.
	♥ 7:09am Nulsh: I have always had weird dreams. Now I dream about going for a few pints with my mates!!! Heh heh!
	7:10am Dave in St Albans UK: Hi Jeffrey and people of A shrunken planet. May your horizons expand with the music despite lockdown. Refreshing rain today thank goodness :-)
	7:10am ?: This Gimmer Nicholson is just what I needed. Feels great.
	♥ 7:11am Jeffrey Davison: As long as the protesters (who are advocating re-opening states, relaxing stay-at-home orders etc) aren't afraid of being outside, and in close proximity, and who clearly have energy, maybe they should drive out west and go pick fruits and vegetables in the fields. Certainly we don't want "illegal" immigrants picking our food. Should only be picked by Americans, no?
	♥ 7:11am Jeffrey Davison: Welcome Dave in St Albans UK, and ?
	♥ 7:14am Aaron Working In Newark: Such a beautiful show today Jeffrey. Made getting ready for work and riving into Newark this morning a pleasurable experience. Thank you.
	♥ 7:14am Jeffrey Davison: Glad you're enjoying the show, Aaron...
	♥ 7:18am TDK60: Those "protesters"? They say they're for freedom. I don't think so. I've been supporting other kinds of protesters - nurses demanding equipment, people demanding to lower the prison population, Ad shame on a national govt. that reduces the wages or already poor farmworkers.
	♥ 7:19am TDK60: [of]
	♥ 7:20am Nulsh: Beautiful.
	♥ 7:24am TDK60: Morning Nulsh. // Never heard this Fahey album.
	♥ 7:24am Strandlund: This such a beautiful way to start my weekend...Thanks Jeffrey!
	♥ 7:25am Jeffrey Davison: TDK60: agreed. We all want to go back to a normal life, but that means millions of tests and tracking of people with the virus and who they came into contact with. We are really far from that now, and it seems like the federal government has left testing up to the states. So this has to be patched together somehow, by 50 individual states, without help from Washington. And it is a fact that re-opening will mean more infections and people dying of the virus. Maybe the government should look to Canada and Europe for more intelligent responses to the pandemic, and actually help out individuals and small businesses, not just Boeing and other large corporations and rich shareholders.
	♥ 7:25am Nulsh: Hey TDK60. One of my favourite pieces amigo. Gets me every time.
	♥ 7:26am Jeffrey Davison: Strandlund: welcome, and glad you're enjoying the show. TDK60: Fahey was deep into experimental (often electric) guitar at this point in his life, and this piece is different from the rest of the tracks on the album.
	♥ 7:29am Nulsh: Jeffrey - saw Fahey incorporate Juana into one of his electric performances. One and only time I ever saw him - when he was playing electric guitar electric.
	7:29am Buddha of Suburbia: Morning Jeffrey and friends!
	♥ 7:30am Nulsh: There's BOOOOODZ!
	♥ 7:31am Jeffrey Davison: Nulsh: lucky you. I never saw Fahey play. I was a hermit before it was a state requirement. Buddha of Suburbia, always good to have you here...a crowd favorite...xo
	♥ 7:31am LynnsBrother: GOOD Morning Jeffrey. Yea, I liked that John Fahey piece. I saw Fahey in New Hope, PA in 1985. It was a good time.
	♥ 7:31am Nulsh: Ooops! Only really needed one 'electric' there Nulshy boy!
	♥ 7:32am Jeffrey Davison: LynnsBrother: welcome. As I said, I never saw Fahey, but I did see Hildegard of Bingen back in the day ;)
	7:33am Buddha of Suburbia: Morning Nuuulllsssh! Awwww, bless yer cotton socks, Jeffrey!
	♥ 7:33am TDK60: Thanks for your thoughts Jeffrey. // Morning Buddha. Lynns Brother, morning.
	7:34am Buddha of Suburbia: What a lovely piece. So nice. Hi TDK60.
	♥ 7:34am TDK60: Aw c'mon Nulsh, playing electric guitar electric is the way to do it.
	♥ 7:37am Nulsh: TDK60! Hard to argue with that logic! Heh heh!
	♥ 7:37am Aaron Working In Newark: Hiya Buddha!
	♥ 7:38am LynnsBrother: @ Jeffrey LOL
	7:39am Peter from Dover NJ: Good morning everyone. This is cool. I'd heard of Robbie Basho but never heard his music.
	7:40am Buddha of Suburbia: How are u doing Aaron in Newark? Everyone ok in your family?
	♥ 7:41am Nulsh: Jeffrey. I'd read Basho died as a result of a visit to a "back specialist" and had his neck broken in the process. You ever hear anything about that?
	♥ 7:41am Brian in UK: Jeffrey, did you get to see any of Hildy's 11,000 virgins?
	♥ 7:41am ParUbi: Good morning!
	♥ 7:42am TDK60: Peter, Basho was something. // Just spoke with a pal in Harlem who hasn't been out in 35 days. I go out to walk every 2 days, usually late at night to avoid people.
	♥ 7:42am Ignatatus666: Good evening Jeffrey Super sweet playlist
	♥ 7:44am Jeffrey Davison: Peter from Dover, NJ, glad I played some Robbie Basho for you. Nulsh: yes, Basho died at the hands of a chiropractor. Evidently there was an underlying condition. Really sad. ParUbi: good morning. Ignatatus666: glad you're enjoying the show...
	♥ 7:44am Jeffrey Davison: Brian in UK: let's just say that there were a lot less virgins after my visit...
	♥ 7:45am Jeffrey Davison: *fewer
	♥ 7:45am Ignatatus666: @TDK60 Is there a list of approved or socially acceptable protests? Some sort of protocol?
	♥ 7:48am Nulsh: Thanks Jeffrey. My main source of information for years was sleeve notes and fanzines. I kinda' miss that way of learning!
	7:48am Robbo from Sydney: Hi Jeffrey - I'm really enjoying this show - thanks! Kids are in bed and I'm not far off myself but wow - such nice quiet beautiful noise in our little house from WFMU
	♥ 7:50am TDK60: Ignatatu66: No, there are protesters I agree with and those I don't. Those protesting to end isolation in Ohio and in Michigan are insane, I think.
	♥ 7:51am Jeffrey Davison: Ignatatus: I can't speak for TDK60, or anyone else, but the protesters seem uninformed, and that's worrisome, to say the least, with so much at stake. One guy, interviewed on TV yesterday (and of course this is anecdotal, so take with a grain of salt): said he couldn't get seed, or paint etc. Not sure where he is, but in NY State hardware stores are essential, and I imagine Home Depot stores are open elsewhere too. I am sympathetic if he really can't get these things, but is that actually the case? There has certainly been a run on seeds and all gardening supplies, and people are planting victory gardens... And as I say, re-opening only works with millions of tests, and tracking. It cannot work any other way.
	♥ 7:52am Jeffrey Davison: Nulsh: As far as FMU DJs go, I'm not exactly a font of information. Some of the DJs here are really scholars, or at least tremendously informed, or at the very least have much better memories than I do!
	7:52am ChukAmok: Very nice waking up to this. It’s been a while since I last listened to Currituck Kevin.
	♥ 7:53am Nulsh: I love all the recycling of naming pieces for solo guitar stuff. "Raga called...", "assassination of...", etc. Gary Lucas has a great wee ditty called "Robert's Johnson"
	♥ 7:53am Jeffrey Davison: Robbo from Sydney: glad you're enjoying the show, and thanks for chiming in on the message board. What FMU does is pretty special...
	♥ 7:53am dale: good morning. the victory garden - i loved that on pbs.
	7:54am Earth Walker: Hello all ! Thanks for the show ! I was reading earlier comments I think we’ll know more about this virus business at a latter date. There’s obviously something there not telling us Buddha I’m glad you don’t have to brave the casinos just yet People picking fruits and vegetables no matter who they are will be poisoned anyway Demand organic !
	♥ 7:54am Nulsh: Jeffrey, don't be selling yerself short! I must've come across three new things already today.
	♥ 7:54am Jeffrey Davison: Nulsh: dig it. I didn't know about the Gary Lucas title...that's a good one. dale: I dunno what else to call it. Never saw that show, though.
	♥ 7:55am Jeffrey Davison: ChukAmok: hadn't even intended to play the Currituck County piece!
	♥ 7:55am 12539: I don't know if it's me or the set, but this set has been particularly enjoyable.
	♥ 7:55am LynnsBrother: BTW TDK, I absentee voted in OH for Bernie, because he is still on the ticket!
	♥ 7:56am Nulsh: Mornin' dale. Is Victory Garden a show? I really like the song of the same name.
	♥ 7:58am Ignatatus666: Jeffrey The measures are drastic to track people. That’s what they do in China/Hong Kong. I don’t have a standard opinion on how to control the virus. I am more interested in why? There is so far no logical reason the entire world has a virus. Also no logical reason that the majority of the public are believing the numbers the media are announcing. Every person that passes right now they are victims of Covid-19 and nothing else? Everyone that has a fever are being told at hospitals they tested positive for CV-19 without a test and the masses believe this? I want the truth more then anything. This virus has a 98% recovery rate. The treatment medicine is not available. Hydroxychloroquine?
	7:59am Peter from Dover NJ: TDK60, Jeffrey... I also know NYC ppl who've stayed indoors for 30+ days. As for the protests to "reopen" the country, those ppl are lunatics.
	♥ 7:59am Jeffrey Davison: Earth Walker: it seems like organic is becoming more mainstream every day, and do hope it does become the standard. 12539: thank you. LynnsBrother: way to go, but reading the Times today, it seems that many Bernie supporters may not be willing to vote for Joe Biden, as if 4 more years of dismantling the USA is okay.
	♥ 7:59am Nulsh: Jeffrey. Gary Lucas first solo album "Skeleton at the Feast" is worth a listen. All instrumental guitar pieces (acoustic and electric). I tried for years to get a copy over here, and my mate from Leeds picked up a copy in Hoboken for me!
	♥ 8:01am Aaron Working In Newark: I had tickets to The House of Love in a few weeks and thats not going to happen :(
	8:01am Peter from Dover NJ: Ignatatus666 the virus was spreading long before it became a pandemic. USS Theodore Roosevelt... someth like 96% of crew carried the virus, including majority asymptomatic.
	♥ 8:01am LynnsBrother: The sound quality is noise free on my computer here in the east mid-west!
	♥ 8:02am dale: yes. they showed you how to grow vegetables and then the end segment was a lady named marion cooking with them. same porducers as this old house back in the 80s. www.youtube.com...
	8:03am Marshland: On the subject of live streams, some here may want to check out the recent one from Folk On Foot here in the UK: youtu.be...
	8:04am Xangoir: Brian Dennehy’s death was not attributed to the virus so your point is not well taken
	♥ 8:07am TDK60: Does Raul L. feature a glass harmonica?
	♥ 8:09am Ignatatus666: @peter I am well aware of that. I am also aware that both France and Italy blocked the Malaria drug after 78/80 patients had successfully recovered with it.
	♥ 8:09am Jeffrey Davison: If anyone believes that reopening anytime soon is a good idea, I don't understand that. This virus was spread, for the most part (it seems) by people who were or are symptom-free. That's a huge concern, and makes this virus different from SARS, for example. And despite the fact that I am following the news closely, it also seems clear that we still don't know anywhere near what we need to about this virus. So people going out now, possibly asymptomatic, and cases of the virus on the rise again doesn't seem a good idea. The main thing we have now, as onerous as it may be, is for people to stay inside. The recovery rate is fairly high, but I don't think 98% (I will check for myself), but all along officials were saying that most people who got it would experience minor symptoms and recover. However, the rest of us staying out of harms way, until it seems more prudent, seems a good idea. People are dying of other diseases and illnesses, and the obituaries do note that. They are testing a number of options, and there are some people responding to certain combinations of drugs, but others, no...
	♥ 8:10am 12539: @TDK60 : Wiki says it's a "Glasspiel" (a set of musical glasses)
	♥ 8:10am Jeffrey Davison: TDK60: glass harmonica or something similar...
	♥ 8:14am Strandlund: We still haven't had a shut down in Iowa. I always wear a mask when I go outside. The amount of people that do not wear masks is a very scary site.
	8:14am Buddha of Suburbia: Aaron I was going to go see the National and Sharon Van Etten this month but that's not happening
	♥ 8:18am StringOFperils: Good morning global citizens of Erewhon !
	♥ 8:19am Jeffrey Davison: Strandlund: that is disconcerting to hear, but there are people walking around New York without masks. However, I think it's required as of this weekend. What is clear is that the more that people stay inside, the less chance they will pick up the virus, and it gives our health care workers a fighting chance to stay ahead of this. My sister works in a hospital in New Jersey and it is filling up with Covid-19 patients. I can't even imagine what Elmhurst General is like right now, but these places have been pushed to the breaking point, and of course without sufficient PPE, so medical personnel are coming down with the virus also. We simply cannot push these health care workers into the abyss.
	♥ 8:19am Jeffrey Davison: Welcome StringOFperils.
	♥ 8:24am ottovonbqe: lots of people here in western mass without masks still. lots of tough guys in pickup trucks where i live and I doubt they'll ever wear masks. maybe if they came in camo designs.
	8:24am Ted in Montclair: Jeffrey, thanks for mentioning the great Sid Selvidge. I first learned of his landmark album "The Cold of the Morning" when you played a cut some years back. My wife is from Memphis and a long time ago I was lucky enough to see Sid play at a now-defunct Memphis bar, The North End. Sheer magic. Nothing shall stop the mighty WFMU. Thanks for soldiering on from home.
	♥ 8:25am Strandlund: I know what you mean, Jeffrey. My Sister-in-law is a nurse in Kansas City at the VA and to hear the horror stories...
	♥ 8:25am TDK60: I miss going to my open mikes to play. But I can wait.
	♥ 8:26am ottovonbqe: I don't think things should just 'open', but on the other hand there needs to be some real leadership and some thughtful alternative programming. staying at home forever is not a good option for many. kids need to be outside and to play.
	♥ 8:28am Strandlund: @ottovonbqe..."Real Leadership" What is that?
	♥ 8:28am Jeffrey Davison: ottovonbqe: I suppose in a rural place, where you're far from everyone, a mask isn't essential, but it is when there is a chance you're going to be near other people, out shopping etc. In New York, you know that for the most part, someone is going to come along in ten seconds. And yes, figuring out when and how to reopen was always going to be problematic, which was being said weeks ago by officials who understood the situation and what it was going to take. Ted in Montclair: thank you. Selvidge is great, and that early album of his is a keeper...I did see him once, a long time ago.
	♥ 8:29am fred: Good morning all (I'm working today, for a few hours only) @Jeffrey: I think Michigan did close hardware and gardening stores, in part to avoid crowds there, in part to discourage people from moving to their second homes in isolated counties (safer... unless you're already infected and carry the virus where there is no hospital within reach) The local mayor made masks mandatory here. Didn't provide any though, and good luck finding one (looks like my WFMU bandana passes muster for now though). Selectively enforced as usual, but I live in a poor neighborhood, a prime target
	♥ 8:31am ottovonbqe: the thing that is going to 'radicalize' me is the bailouts. learned yesterday that harvard and shake shack both got millions in bailout $$, while I still wait in vain for my $1200. For some reason, it was shake shack that pushed me over the edge.
	8:32am Earth Walker: Jeffery well said what is reported people mostly older with preexisting conditions are dying from the virus what is not reported they died from their preexisting condition with the virus Italy for example has a higher population of older folks and had a higher fatality rate Here in France we are in lockdown mandated My wife just went out shopping permission slip 1 hour out and mask. Ya gotta do what ya gotta do
	♥ 8:33am TDK60: I've gotten good at masking up: I have 2 homemade masks made by relatives. Or, when they're in the laundry basket, I wear 2 bandannas, hat, gloves. I look like an Invisible Man.
	♥ 8:33am Jeffrey Davison: Strandlund: I hope your sister-in-law is okay. What we cannot have is people running countries or states (or anywhere) based on "hunches". That is something that Kafka might have dreamed up, or Orwell, fer crissakes. fred: I hear you about Michigan, and that is unfortunate. I hope they reconsider, as gardening now looks like a pretty good idea for a lot of reasons. And yes, the N95 masks disappeared here in Brooklyn weeks ago. My housemate bought me one at a local building supply place off the beaten path, and I've been wearing that since then. I do see lots of people wearing homemade masks, bandanas....
	8:34am stalvey: Is it snowing downstate? Has spring been canceled? This cold spell adds to the generally crappy vibe. Grateful for the good music.
	♥ 8:34am LynnsBrother: @ Jeffrey Joe B... mmm maybe. November is a few months away. @ Marshland, just listened to a few minutes of Folk on Foot. That video looks amazing, many UK artists, and 7 hrs of music. Might take a few days to listen to it all.
	♥ 8:35am dale: snowing in orange county but too warm to stick.
	♥ 8:35am Jeffrey Davison: welcome stalvey: don't think we have snow here, but have not been outside yet...stuck here at the computer.
	♥ 8:36am TDK60: Stalvey: I'm actually glad it's chilly, for a few reasons.
	♥ 8:40am Jeffrey Davison: ottovonbqe: it seems clear that much has to change after this pandemic. This economic disparity in this country is literally killing people. Before the virus, you had millions without health care, and many more with only catastrophic coverage or poor coverage. This has to change. The USA has to join (or rejoin) the civilized world. And I don't know why it's okay to bail out big companies (most of which need help, I admit) and make it difficult or impossible for the average person or small business owner to stay afloat. Can we build less cruise missiles and maybe take care of more people?
	8:42am RoseWillHank: Morning all, dreary day out there. Thought about a walk but may bounce on my mini trampoline instead. Thanks for the tunes Jeffrey, they compliment my ginger tea.
	♥ 8:42am Ignatatus666: The city where I work as of 8pm last night all taxi drivers and customers are required to wear a mask. I am not turning away a customer for no mask. We are making such little money right now that I will not adhere to that. Currently the majority of my clients are health care workers and they hate the mask. Every-time I had a customer I couldn’t wait to drop them off to remove that mask. Yes it’s the N95 respirator mask and it sucks 100%. I tried a bandanna that took 15 seconds to heat my breath up so no go. Next move is a face shield. The mask had me hyperventilating. PS I’ve yet to see medical proof that isolation or a mask works. To those naysayers on the protesters. You think they are stupid? Don’t protest. If the government tries to actually lock down there will be retribution.
	8:44am peckinpah: ^^^ Screed elsewhere
	♥ 8:44am melinda: Morning everyone
	♥ 8:45am Ignatatus666: @TDK60 What is a glass harmonica ?
	♥ 8:45am TDK60: Don't think I've seen any medical workers protesting /against/ wearing masks or protective gear. Nope.
	8:47am stalvey: Thank you, weather-watchers! Another FMU service. Hopefully this will be the tail end of winter. May take a flask and cigar to the battlefield and pretend it’s the whisky trail. Soldier on, all.
	♥ 8:48am Aaron Working In Newark: Thank you for another wonderful show Jeffrey. Stay safe everyone!
	♥ 8:49am Jeffrey Davison: What I have heard officials say is that wearing a mask may not prevent you from getting the virus when you're outside, but if YOU have the virus, it may keep you from infecting someone else. DiBlasio and Cuomo both said this, and I'm sure other people as well. An N95 does seem capable of blocking droplets carrying the virus, and as for me, I'd rather take my chances and wear something rather than no mask. Gary Null used to say, on his radio show, that if people took vitamins, green drinks etc, that they weren't a cure, but just something that would probably be more advantageous overall for your health, so if one was inclined to take vitamins etc (in addition to a good diet and exercise, he also stressed), why not do it? And the health care workers I know are all very concerned with not having PPE. For me, walking around, the mask is uncomfortable, and my glasses fog up, but I'm not driving with one.
	♥ 8:49am Ignatatus666: @Jeffrey 100% no corporate bailout. The airlines can apply for loans without any help. Who’s bailing out all the private businesses forced to close? Chinatown NYC is about to be a disaster. PS East NY I see for myself about 1% wearing a mask. And I see at night no difference in the amount of people in the streets. Also every borough I I travel through less then 1% of NYPD,EMS,Ambulance drivers are wearing a mask.
	♥ 8:49am Jeffrey Davison: thanks RoseWillHank and Aaron...
	♥ 8:50am TDK60: A glass harmonica is an instrument with glasses filled with different amounts of water. I think soft mallets rub the edges.
	8:51am Andrew in Etobicoke: Thanks for the enlightening show, as always, Jeffrey. See you all next week. Stay Safe.
	♥ 8:52am 12539: Thank you, Jeffrey. Take care and be well.
	♥ 8:52am Nulsh: Aye, many thanks for the music and chat Jeffrey. Thanks Ruth Skeleton! Take care amigos!
	♥ 8:52am StringOFperils: It's reassuring to hear so many of you recognizing the biological realities surrounding the transmission of this virus. It needs to be seamlessly contained, unfortunately for a considerable length of time. It doesn't help at all that an array of world 'leaders' are leveraging this dilemma to put large populations at grave risk. There is certainly legitimacy where economic meltdown comes into play. At the individual level, working people and the poor stand to experience a whole world of pain (even more than usual). But proliferating fear, setting people against one another, attempting to hobble state govt's. and now even Congress to gain ultimate autocracy by actually utilizing this situation, by undercutting/eliminating medical funding, in short to deliberately manufacture endemic social havoc so to derail any organized democratic process in order to work around an election-year and remain self-appointed king, is an added problem of historical dimensions. Demonizing the W.H.O. and publicly lauding those who protest wearing protective masks and gloves, and getting any number of anarchic messages out by any media available is helping to foment the perfect shit-storm. It's terrifying, because as Ignatious666 above points out, given the degree of mass confusion in the air, along with the financial desperation growing every minute, there could be large-scale behavioural breakdowns and authoritarian counter-measures that dismantle reality in ways that could be termed "retribution' i guess. But retribution for what, and by whom, and to whom? Somehow, truth and common sense must prevail. Every 'average' person has to be made to understand what's at stake here. Covid-19 is only one of the chainsaws that we're juggling.
	♥ 8:53am Jeffrey Davison: Ignatatus, you're out more than I am, but I see most people wearing masks or face covering. I'd say 75 percent, maybe more. I don't know why cops and others you mention wouldn't wear masks, and I assume that NYPD would have masks, but I also know that states and municipalities are struggling to buy these supplies. Luckily Jared Kushner is in charge of what he calls the "shadow" Covid department. Now there's someone who knows his shit.
	♥ 8:53am Brian in UK: Jeffrey just as a side issue. Great music.
	8:54am RoseWillHank: Yes, definitely a good idea to listen to Null, @Jeffrey
	♥ 8:54am Jeffrey Davison: Brian, thanks! Yeah, the music...
	♥ 8:54am TDK60: Thanks Jeffrey. Stay safe folks. Stiff upper ear.
	8:55am Earth Walker: 666 Right. I have 3m masks left over from construction like work I did before They work but still suck The French are definitely aware of the malaria drug and the government’s attempt to block it The pharmaceutical industry I know is perversely unregulated in the States before the 10 year paten date they pull a majority of the drugs off the market
	♥ 8:55am Strandlund: Kushner does know his shit...he married into it!
	8:56am Earth Walker: Thanks so much for the show !
	♥ 8:56am Ignatatus666: Jeffrey I’m driving through garrison Coldspring area it’s 37° with light wet snow mixed
	♥ 8:57am Strandlund: Stay safe everyone...
	♥ 8:58am Jeffrey Davison: Thanks to everyone for listening. I hope, as always, virus or no virus, that this show brings good music and good vibes into your life. Music is a healing force, never more so than now. Stay safe, stay informed, stay healthy, and if you need help, reach out to someone and make a connection. Who knows, maybe that person needs to hear from you, and you'll do good for both of you...
	♥ 8:59am duke: Thanks Jeffrey!

Shrunken Planet with Jeffrey Davison: Playlist from April 18, 2020

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Folk; old-timey; blues; psych, avant and acid folk old and new; ambient and electronic; lots of guitar; detours elsewhere.

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April 18, 2020

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Approx. start time
Mary Jane Leach	Bruckstück "Bruckstück" by "Mary Jane Leach"	Celestial Fires	Experimental Intermedia Foundation	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Meredith Monk	Braid 1 and Leaping Song	Mercy	ECM	0:12:28 (Pop-up)
Alvarius B	Like That Madri Gal "Like That Madri Gal" by "Alvarius B"	Baroque Primitiva	Abduction	0:20:37 (Pop-up)
Paul Giger	Crypt III "Crypt III" by "Paul Giger"	Chartres	ECM	0:24:58 (Pop-up)
Rain Drinkers	The Healing "The Healing" by "Rain Drinkers"	The Healing Begins Now	Reverb Worship	0:31:03 (Pop-up)
Christopher Tree	(untitled, track 6)	Spontaneous Sound: At the Cathedral of St. John the Divine	Quakebasket / Locust	0:36:40 (Pop-up)
R. Keenan Lawler	1930 "1930" by "R. Keenan Lawler"	Music for the Bluegrass States	Xeric	0:45:25 (Pop-up)

Gimmer Nicholson	Red and White Light Ship	Christopher Idylls	Lucky 7	1:03:53 (Pop-up)
John Fahey	Juana "Juana" by "John Fahey"	Womblife	Table of the Elements	1:14:39 (Pop-up)
Borealis	El Viento Frío "El Viento Frío" by "Borealis"	Loma Aerea	Truco Espárrago / Woodland Recordings	1:27:17 (Pop-up)
Robbie Basho	Rocky Mountain Raga (live)	Bonn Ist Supreme	Bo' Weavil	1:36:26 (Pop-up)
Currituck Co.	A Raga Called Pat Cohn	Ghost Man on First	Lexicon Devil	1:45:35 (Pop-up)

Raul Lovisoni	Amon Ra "Amon Ra" by "Raul Lovisoni"	Prati Bagnati Del Monte Analogo	Die Schachtel	2:02:39 (Pop-up)
Masarurasam	Different Channels "Different Channels" by "Masarurasam"	Move	Nada	2:14:16 (Pop-up)
Dusted Lux	What Is True "What Is True" by "Dusted Lux"	Neverended	Preservation	2:20:40 (Pop-up)
Ilyas Ahmed	Satanta's Hand "Satanta's Hand" by "Ilyas Ahmed"	Between Two Skies /Towards the Night	Digitalis	2:31:11 (Pop-up)
Michio Kurihara	The Old Man And The Evening Star	Sunset Notes	Pedal Records	2:46:12 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	6:02am testingwithfire: good morning Jeffrey and ShrunkenVolk from Chile in autumn
	6:02am Ruth Booth: Good Morning!
	♥ 6:03am Sem: Good morning, Jeffrey, hello, TwF, Ruth Booth!
	6:04am Toothgrinder Tom: Morning WFMUers
	6:05am Aaron Working In Newark: good morning Jeffrey
	6:09am Jon Etter: Good morning, Jeffrey, Ruth, and Shrunken Planeteers! Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, U.S.A. reporting in this morning.
	♥ 6:10am Nulsh: Goooooooooood mornin' amigos!
	♥ 6:10am BVP: wow
	♥ 6:10am Jeffrey Davison: Good morning testingwithfire, Ruth Booth, Sem, Toothgrinder Tom, Aaron Working In Newark, and Jon Etter, Nulsh....glad to be here to bring you the sounds. Actually, Ruth is bringing the sounds, I'm just doing the comments and playlist update...
	♥ 6:11am Nulsh: This is totally captivating!
	6:12am testingwithfire: spooky sounds, sounds like a coven conference
	♥ 6:14am Jeffrey Davison: Leach is a great composer, and also the person most responsible for keeping the music of Julius Eastman alive. Eastman died long ago, and finding his recordings etc, was a huge task. Many of Eastman's recordings have now been issued. One or two are reissues, if I'm not mistaken, but most were never released.
	♥ 6:16am Jeffrey Davison: Meredith Monk, another favorite of mine, and a major figure in the last half century!
	6:17am Andrew in Etobicoke: Good morning Jeffrey and all other Planeteers.
	6:17am Marshland: Eastman's "Femenine" is certainly worth getting, recently reissued.
	♥ 6:19am Jeffrey Davison: Good morning Andrew in Etobicoke, and Marshland (agreed, that's a good one).
	♥ 6:22am Jeffrey Davison: I smartened up, by transferring my coffee from the French press to a thermos, so I'm actually drinking hot coffee. What an innovation, what genius!
	6:25am Kevino: Beautiful snowfall in the Catskills this morning, I hope it's not my last.
	♥ 6:29am Jeffrey Davison: Kevino, glad you got some snow up there. Are you okay? Your comment is worrisome...
	6:29am LiXiviated Life: “I am waiting for my case to come up and I am waiting for a rebirth of wonder and I am waiting for someone to really discover America and wail” - Lawrence F.
	♥ 6:33am Jeffrey Davison: LiXiviated Life, thanks for the Ferlinghetti, that's a good one.
	♥ 6:35am Jeffrey Davison: Rebirth of Wonder is also the name of a great and forgotten LP by Didi Favreau, 1969 on the RSVP label. Kind of a jazz/rock/folk hybrid. There was a CD reissue at some point (not sure if legit or a bootleg) but that seems to be scarcer than the LP.
	6:37am Kevino: Morning Jeffery, I'm OK, just a touch of meloncoly. Thanks for your concern.
	♥ 6:39am Jeffrey Davison: Kevino, I hear you. For me, being inside 23 hours a day doesn't seem healthy, and it's hard to fight off the melancholy. Trying to stay active, and that's a battle...
	♥ 6:39am duke: Good morning Planet shrinkers
	♥ 6:41am Jeffrey Davison: Good morning, duke...
	6:46am testingwithfire: Lovely and surprising show this morning. I'm hearing what sound like Japanese strings at the moment.
	♥ 6:48am Jeffrey Davison: testingwithfire: thanks. This is actually a National steel guitar.
	6:50am testingwithfire: @Jeffrey thanks. I had just seen a pic of Toshiro Mifune on Twitter :-)
	♥ 6:50am Nulsh: A National? Woah. Getting some great sounds.
	♥ 6:50am Jeffrey Davison: I was trying to find information on Christopher Tree. After living in Europe for 23 years, he came back to the US, and was living on the West Coast, and evidently still performing. There was another CD put out by Cardas that had more of his music. Most of the information I find is basically from the Spontaneous Sound LP/CD issue.
	♥ 6:51am Jeffrey Davison: Nulsh: yeah, Lawler is a great player. Not tons of recordings. Did two LPs with Pelt, at least.
	♥ 6:56am Nulsh: Cheers Jeffrey! The Pelt connection now makes sense to me. I'll go check him out.
	♥ 6:57am Brian in UK: Hello Jeffrey and the Tardis Queen.
	6:58am Ruth Booth: Happy Saturday, Brian.
	♥ 6:59am Jeffrey Davison: As I mentioned on an earlier comment, and contrary to my mic break, there was a 1998 CD on Cardas with more music by Christopher Tree, I guess from that era and not early recordings.
	♥ 6:59am Jeffrey Davison: Nulsh: good idea! Welcome Brian in UK.
	♥ 7:01am Brian in UK: We have rain today, not a bad thing after two weeks of sun. Should bring on the new plantings and weeds. Hope all is well over your way. Cabin fever rules.
	♥ 7:04am TDK60: Hello. I was just dreaming, meeting a prospective roommate. I would've okayed him to move in, but it was a dream and I woke up.
	♥ 7:07am Jeffrey Davison: Brian in UK: that sounds like a good thing. Good luck with your garden. TDK60: ha! I'm sure we're all having weirder dreams than usual now. I sure am.
	♥ 7:09am Nulsh: I have always had weird dreams. Now I dream about going for a few pints with my mates!!! Heh heh!
	7:10am Dave in St Albans UK: Hi Jeffrey and people of A shrunken planet. May your horizons expand with the music despite lockdown. Refreshing rain today thank goodness :-)
	7:10am ?: This Gimmer Nicholson is just what I needed. Feels great.
	♥ 7:11am Jeffrey Davison: As long as the protesters (who are advocating re-opening states, relaxing stay-at-home orders etc) aren't afraid of being outside, and in close proximity, and who clearly have energy, maybe they should drive out west and go pick fruits and vegetables in the fields. Certainly we don't want "illegal" immigrants picking our food. Should only be picked by Americans, no?
	♥ 7:11am Jeffrey Davison: Welcome Dave in St Albans UK, and ?
	♥ 7:14am Aaron Working In Newark: Such a beautiful show today Jeffrey. Made getting ready for work and riving into Newark this morning a pleasurable experience. Thank you.
	♥ 7:14am Jeffrey Davison: Glad you're enjoying the show, Aaron...
	♥ 7:18am TDK60: Those "protesters"? They say they're for freedom. I don't think so. I've been supporting other kinds of protesters - nurses demanding equipment, people demanding to lower the prison population, Ad shame on a national govt. that reduces the wages or already poor farmworkers.
	♥ 7:19am TDK60: [of]
	♥ 7:20am Nulsh: Beautiful.
	♥ 7:24am TDK60: Morning Nulsh. // Never heard this Fahey album.
	♥ 7:24am Strandlund: This such a beautiful way to start my weekend...Thanks Jeffrey!
	♥ 7:25am Jeffrey Davison: TDK60: agreed. We all want to go back to a normal life, but that means millions of tests and tracking of people with the virus and who they came into contact with. We are really far from that now, and it seems like the federal government has left testing up to the states. So this has to be patched together somehow, by 50 individual states, without help from Washington. And it is a fact that re-opening will mean more infections and people dying of the virus. Maybe the government should look to Canada and Europe for more intelligent responses to the pandemic, and actually help out individuals and small businesses, not just Boeing and other large corporations and rich shareholders.
	♥ 7:25am Nulsh: Hey TDK60. One of my favourite pieces amigo. Gets me every time.
	♥ 7:26am Jeffrey Davison: Strandlund: welcome, and glad you're enjoying the show. TDK60: Fahey was deep into experimental (often electric) guitar at this point in his life, and this piece is different from the rest of the tracks on the album.
	♥ 7:29am Nulsh: Jeffrey - saw Fahey incorporate Juana into one of his electric performances. One and only time I ever saw him - when he was playing electric guitar electric.
	7:29am Buddha of Suburbia: Morning Jeffrey and friends!
	♥ 7:30am Nulsh: There's BOOOOODZ!
	♥ 7:31am Jeffrey Davison: Nulsh: lucky you. I never saw Fahey play. I was a hermit before it was a state requirement. Buddha of Suburbia, always good to have you here...a crowd favorite...xo
	♥ 7:31am LynnsBrother: GOOD Morning Jeffrey. Yea, I liked that John Fahey piece. I saw Fahey in New Hope, PA in 1985. It was a good time.
	♥ 7:31am Nulsh: Ooops! Only really needed one 'electric' there Nulshy boy!
	♥ 7:32am Jeffrey Davison: LynnsBrother: welcome. As I said, I never saw Fahey, but I did see Hildegard of Bingen back in the day ;)
	7:33am Buddha of Suburbia: Morning Nuuulllsssh! Awwww, bless yer cotton socks, Jeffrey!
	♥ 7:33am TDK60: Thanks for your thoughts Jeffrey. // Morning Buddha. Lynns Brother, morning.
	7:34am Buddha of Suburbia: What a lovely piece. So nice. Hi TDK60.
	♥ 7:34am TDK60: Aw c'mon Nulsh, playing electric guitar electric is the way to do it.
	♥ 7:37am Nulsh: TDK60! Hard to argue with that logic! Heh heh!
	♥ 7:37am Aaron Working In Newark: Hiya Buddha!
	♥ 7:38am LynnsBrother: @ Jeffrey LOL
	7:39am Peter from Dover NJ: Good morning everyone. This is cool. I'd heard of Robbie Basho but never heard his music.
	7:40am Buddha of Suburbia: How are u doing Aaron in Newark? Everyone ok in your family?
	♥ 7:41am Nulsh: Jeffrey. I'd read Basho died as a result of a visit to a "back specialist" and had his neck broken in the process. You ever hear anything about that?
	♥ 7:41am Brian in UK: Jeffrey, did you get to see any of Hildy's 11,000 virgins?
	♥ 7:41am ParUbi: Good morning!
	♥ 7:42am TDK60: Peter, Basho was something. // Just spoke with a pal in Harlem who hasn't been out in 35 days. I go out to walk every 2 days, usually late at night to avoid people.
	♥ 7:42am Ignatatus666: Good evening Jeffrey Super sweet playlist
	♥ 7:44am Jeffrey Davison: Peter from Dover, NJ, glad I played some Robbie Basho for you. Nulsh: yes, Basho died at the hands of a chiropractor. Evidently there was an underlying condition. Really sad. ParUbi: good morning. Ignatatus666: glad you're enjoying the show...
	♥ 7:44am Jeffrey Davison: Brian in UK: let's just say that there were a lot less virgins after my visit...
	♥ 7:45am Jeffrey Davison: *fewer
	♥ 7:45am Ignatatus666: @TDK60 Is there a list of approved or socially acceptable protests? Some sort of protocol?
	♥ 7:48am Nulsh: Thanks Jeffrey. My main source of information for years was sleeve notes and fanzines. I kinda' miss that way of learning!
	7:48am Robbo from Sydney: Hi Jeffrey - I'm really enjoying this show - thanks! Kids are in bed and I'm not far off myself but wow - such nice quiet beautiful noise in our little house from WFMU
	♥ 7:50am TDK60: Ignatatu66: No, there are protesters I agree with and those I don't. Those protesting to end isolation in Ohio and in Michigan are insane, I think.
	♥ 7:51am Jeffrey Davison: Ignatatus: I can't speak for TDK60, or anyone else, but the protesters seem uninformed, and that's worrisome, to say the least, with so much at stake. One guy, interviewed on TV yesterday (and of course this is anecdotal, so take with a grain of salt): said he couldn't get seed, or paint etc. Not sure where he is, but in NY State hardware stores are essential, and I imagine Home Depot stores are open elsewhere too. I am sympathetic if he really can't get these things, but is that actually the case? There has certainly been a run on seeds and all gardening supplies, and people are planting victory gardens... And as I say, re-opening only works with millions of tests, and tracking. It cannot work any other way.
	♥ 7:52am Jeffrey Davison: Nulsh: As far as FMU DJs go, I'm not exactly a font of information. Some of the DJs here are really scholars, or at least tremendously informed, or at the very least have much better memories than I do!
	7:52am ChukAmok: Very nice waking up to this. It’s been a while since I last listened to Currituck Kevin.
	♥ 7:53am Nulsh: I love all the recycling of naming pieces for solo guitar stuff. "Raga called...", "assassination of...", etc. Gary Lucas has a great wee ditty called "Robert's Johnson"
	♥ 7:53am Jeffrey Davison: Robbo from Sydney: glad you're enjoying the show, and thanks for chiming in on the message board. What FMU does is pretty special...
	♥ 7:53am dale: good morning. the victory garden - i loved that on pbs.
	7:54am Earth Walker: Hello all ! Thanks for the show ! I was reading earlier comments I think we’ll know more about this virus business at a latter date. There’s obviously something there not telling us Buddha I’m glad you don’t have to brave the casinos just yet People picking fruits and vegetables no matter who they are will be poisoned anyway Demand organic !
	♥ 7:54am Nulsh: Jeffrey, don't be selling yerself short! I must've come across three new things already today.
	♥ 7:54am Jeffrey Davison: Nulsh: dig it. I didn't know about the Gary Lucas title...that's a good one. dale: I dunno what else to call it. Never saw that show, though.
	♥ 7:55am Jeffrey Davison: ChukAmok: hadn't even intended to play the Currituck County piece!
	♥ 7:55am 12539: I don't know if it's me or the set, but this set has been particularly enjoyable.
	♥ 7:55am LynnsBrother: BTW TDK, I absentee voted in OH for Bernie, because he is still on the ticket!
	♥ 7:56am Nulsh: Mornin' dale. Is Victory Garden a show? I really like the song of the same name.
	♥ 7:58am Ignatatus666: Jeffrey The measures are drastic to track people. That’s what they do in China/Hong Kong. I don’t have a standard opinion on how to control the virus. I am more interested in why? There is so far no logical reason the entire world has a virus. Also no logical reason that the majority of the public are believing the numbers the media are announcing. Every person that passes right now they are victims of Covid-19 and nothing else? Everyone that has a fever are being told at hospitals they tested positive for CV-19 without a test and the masses believe this? I want the truth more then anything. This virus has a 98% recovery rate. The treatment medicine is not available. Hydroxychloroquine?
	7:59am Peter from Dover NJ: TDK60, Jeffrey... I also know NYC ppl who've stayed indoors for 30+ days. As for the protests to "reopen" the country, those ppl are lunatics.
	♥ 7:59am Jeffrey Davison: Earth Walker: it seems like organic is becoming more mainstream every day, and do hope it does become the standard. 12539: thank you. LynnsBrother: way to go, but reading the Times today, it seems that many Bernie supporters may not be willing to vote for Joe Biden, as if 4 more years of dismantling the USA is okay.
	♥ 7:59am Nulsh: Jeffrey. Gary Lucas first solo album "Skeleton at the Feast" is worth a listen. All instrumental guitar pieces (acoustic and electric). I tried for years to get a copy over here, and my mate from Leeds picked up a copy in Hoboken for me!
	♥ 8:01am Aaron Working In Newark: I had tickets to The House of Love in a few weeks and thats not going to happen :(
	8:01am Peter from Dover NJ: Ignatatus666 the virus was spreading long before it became a pandemic. USS Theodore Roosevelt... someth like 96% of crew carried the virus, including majority asymptomatic.
	♥ 8:01am LynnsBrother: The sound quality is noise free on my computer here in the east mid-west!
	♥ 8:02am dale: yes. they showed you how to grow vegetables and then the end segment was a lady named marion cooking with them. same porducers as this old house back in the 80s. www.youtube.com...
	8:03am Marshland: On the subject of live streams, some here may want to check out the recent one from Folk On Foot here in the UK: youtu.be...
	8:04am Xangoir: Brian Dennehy’s death was not attributed to the virus so your point is not well taken
	♥ 8:07am TDK60: Does Raul L. feature a glass harmonica?
	♥ 8:09am Ignatatus666: @peter I am well aware of that. I am also aware that both France and Italy blocked the Malaria drug after 78/80 patients had successfully recovered with it.
	♥ 8:09am Jeffrey Davison: If anyone believes that reopening anytime soon is a good idea, I don't understand that. This virus was spread, for the most part (it seems) by people who were or are symptom-free. That's a huge concern, and makes this virus different from SARS, for example. And despite the fact that I am following the news closely, it also seems clear that we still don't know anywhere near what we need to about this virus. So people going out now, possibly asymptomatic, and cases of the virus on the rise again doesn't seem a good idea. The main thing we have now, as onerous as it may be, is for people to stay inside. The recovery rate is fairly high, but I don't think 98% (I will check for myself), but all along officials were saying that most people who got it would experience minor symptoms and recover. However, the rest of us staying out of harms way, until it seems more prudent, seems a good idea. People are dying of other diseases and illnesses, and the obituaries do note that. They are testing a number of options, and there are some people responding to certain combinations of drugs, but others, no...
	♥ 8:10am 12539: @TDK60 : Wiki says it's a "Glasspiel" (a set of musical glasses)
	♥ 8:10am Jeffrey Davison: TDK60: glass harmonica or something similar...
	♥ 8:14am Strandlund: We still haven't had a shut down in Iowa. I always wear a mask when I go outside. The amount of people that do not wear masks is a very scary site.
	8:14am Buddha of Suburbia: Aaron I was going to go see the National and Sharon Van Etten this month but that's not happening
	♥ 8:18am StringOFperils: Good morning global citizens of Erewhon !
	♥ 8:19am Jeffrey Davison: Strandlund: that is disconcerting to hear, but there are people walking around New York without masks. However, I think it's required as of this weekend. What is clear is that the more that people stay inside, the less chance they will pick up the virus, and it gives our health care workers a fighting chance to stay ahead of this. My sister works in a hospital in New Jersey and it is filling up with Covid-19 patients. I can't even imagine what Elmhurst General is like right now, but these places have been pushed to the breaking point, and of course without sufficient PPE, so medical personnel are coming down with the virus also. We simply cannot push these health care workers into the abyss.
	♥ 8:19am Jeffrey Davison: Welcome StringOFperils.
	♥ 8:24am ottovonbqe: lots of people here in western mass without masks still. lots of tough guys in pickup trucks where i live and I doubt they'll ever wear masks. maybe if they came in camo designs.
	8:24am Ted in Montclair: Jeffrey, thanks for mentioning the great Sid Selvidge. I first learned of his landmark album "The Cold of the Morning" when you played a cut some years back. My wife is from Memphis and a long time ago I was lucky enough to see Sid play at a now-defunct Memphis bar, The North End. Sheer magic. Nothing shall stop the mighty WFMU. Thanks for soldiering on from home.
	♥ 8:25am Strandlund: I know what you mean, Jeffrey. My Sister-in-law is a nurse in Kansas City at the VA and to hear the horror stories...
	♥ 8:25am TDK60: I miss going to my open mikes to play. But I can wait.
	♥ 8:26am ottovonbqe: I don't think things should just 'open', but on the other hand there needs to be some real leadership and some thughtful alternative programming. staying at home forever is not a good option for many. kids need to be outside and to play.
	♥ 8:28am Strandlund: @ottovonbqe..."Real Leadership" What is that?
	♥ 8:28am Jeffrey Davison: ottovonbqe: I suppose in a rural place, where you're far from everyone, a mask isn't essential, but it is when there is a chance you're going to be near other people, out shopping etc. In New York, you know that for the most part, someone is going to come along in ten seconds. And yes, figuring out when and how to reopen was always going to be problematic, which was being said weeks ago by officials who understood the situation and what it was going to take. Ted in Montclair: thank you. Selvidge is great, and that early album of his is a keeper...I did see him once, a long time ago.
	♥ 8:29am fred: Good morning all (I'm working today, for a few hours only) @Jeffrey: I think Michigan did close hardware and gardening stores, in part to avoid crowds there, in part to discourage people from moving to their second homes in isolated counties (safer... unless you're already infected and carry the virus where there is no hospital within reach) The local mayor made masks mandatory here. Didn't provide any though, and good luck finding one (looks like my WFMU bandana passes muster for now though). Selectively enforced as usual, but I live in a poor neighborhood, a prime target
	♥ 8:31am ottovonbqe: the thing that is going to 'radicalize' me is the bailouts. learned yesterday that harvard and shake shack both got millions in bailout $$, while I still wait in vain for my $1200. For some reason, it was shake shack that pushed me over the edge.
	8:32am Earth Walker: Jeffery well said what is reported people mostly older with preexisting conditions are dying from the virus what is not reported they died from their preexisting condition with the virus Italy for example has a higher population of older folks and had a higher fatality rate Here in France we are in lockdown mandated My wife just went out shopping permission slip 1 hour out and mask. Ya gotta do what ya gotta do
	♥ 8:33am TDK60: I've gotten good at masking up: I have 2 homemade masks made by relatives. Or, when they're in the laundry basket, I wear 2 bandannas, hat, gloves. I look like an Invisible Man.
	♥ 8:33am Jeffrey Davison: Strandlund: I hope your sister-in-law is okay. What we cannot have is people running countries or states (or anywhere) based on "hunches". That is something that Kafka might have dreamed up, or Orwell, fer crissakes. fred: I hear you about Michigan, and that is unfortunate. I hope they reconsider, as gardening now looks like a pretty good idea for a lot of reasons. And yes, the N95 masks disappeared here in Brooklyn weeks ago. My housemate bought me one at a local building supply place off the beaten path, and I've been wearing that since then. I do see lots of people wearing homemade masks, bandanas....
	8:34am stalvey: Is it snowing downstate? Has spring been canceled? This cold spell adds to the generally crappy vibe. Grateful for the good music.
	♥ 8:34am LynnsBrother: @ Jeffrey Joe B... mmm maybe. November is a few months away. @ Marshland, just listened to a few minutes of Folk on Foot. That video looks amazing, many UK artists, and 7 hrs of music. Might take a few days to listen to it all.
	♥ 8:35am dale: snowing in orange county but too warm to stick.
	♥ 8:35am Jeffrey Davison: welcome stalvey: don't think we have snow here, but have not been outside yet...stuck here at the computer.
	♥ 8:36am TDK60: Stalvey: I'm actually glad it's chilly, for a few reasons.
	♥ 8:40am Jeffrey Davison: ottovonbqe: it seems clear that much has to change after this pandemic. This economic disparity in this country is literally killing people. Before the virus, you had millions without health care, and many more with only catastrophic coverage or poor coverage. This has to change. The USA has to join (or rejoin) the civilized world. And I don't know why it's okay to bail out big companies (most of which need help, I admit) and make it difficult or impossible for the average person or small business owner to stay afloat. Can we build less cruise missiles and maybe take care of more people?
	8:42am RoseWillHank: Morning all, dreary day out there. Thought about a walk but may bounce on my mini trampoline instead. Thanks for the tunes Jeffrey, they compliment my ginger tea.
	♥ 8:42am Ignatatus666: The city where I work as of 8pm last night all taxi drivers and customers are required to wear a mask. I am not turning away a customer for no mask. We are making such little money right now that I will not adhere to that. Currently the majority of my clients are health care workers and they hate the mask. Every-time I had a customer I couldn’t wait to drop them off to remove that mask. Yes it’s the N95 respirator mask and it sucks 100%. I tried a bandanna that took 15 seconds to heat my breath up so no go. Next move is a face shield. The mask had me hyperventilating. PS I’ve yet to see medical proof that isolation or a mask works. To those naysayers on the protesters. You think they are stupid? Don’t protest. If the government tries to actually lock down there will be retribution.
	8:44am peckinpah: ^^^ Screed elsewhere
	♥ 8:44am melinda: Morning everyone
	♥ 8:45am Ignatatus666: @TDK60 What is a glass harmonica ?
	♥ 8:45am TDK60: Don't think I've seen any medical workers protesting /against/ wearing masks or protective gear. Nope.
	8:47am stalvey: Thank you, weather-watchers! Another FMU service. Hopefully this will be the tail end of winter. May take a flask and cigar to the battlefield and pretend it’s the whisky trail. Soldier on, all.
	♥ 8:48am Aaron Working In Newark: Thank you for another wonderful show Jeffrey. Stay safe everyone!
	♥ 8:49am Jeffrey Davison: What I have heard officials say is that wearing a mask may not prevent you from getting the virus when you're outside, but if YOU have the virus, it may keep you from infecting someone else. DiBlasio and Cuomo both said this, and I'm sure other people as well. An N95 does seem capable of blocking droplets carrying the virus, and as for me, I'd rather take my chances and wear something rather than no mask. Gary Null used to say, on his radio show, that if people took vitamins, green drinks etc, that they weren't a cure, but just something that would probably be more advantageous overall for your health, so if one was inclined to take vitamins etc (in addition to a good diet and exercise, he also stressed), why not do it? And the health care workers I know are all very concerned with not having PPE. For me, walking around, the mask is uncomfortable, and my glasses fog up, but I'm not driving with one.
	♥ 8:49am Ignatatus666: @Jeffrey 100% no corporate bailout. The airlines can apply for loans without any help. Who’s bailing out all the private businesses forced to close? Chinatown NYC is about to be a disaster. PS East NY I see for myself about 1% wearing a mask. And I see at night no difference in the amount of people in the streets. Also every borough I I travel through less then 1% of NYPD,EMS,Ambulance drivers are wearing a mask.
	♥ 8:49am Jeffrey Davison: thanks RoseWillHank and Aaron...
	♥ 8:50am TDK60: A glass harmonica is an instrument with glasses filled with different amounts of water. I think soft mallets rub the edges.
	8:51am Andrew in Etobicoke: Thanks for the enlightening show, as always, Jeffrey. See you all next week. Stay Safe.
	♥ 8:52am 12539: Thank you, Jeffrey. Take care and be well.
	♥ 8:52am Nulsh: Aye, many thanks for the music and chat Jeffrey. Thanks Ruth Skeleton! Take care amigos!
	♥ 8:52am StringOFperils: It's reassuring to hear so many of you recognizing the biological realities surrounding the transmission of this virus. It needs to be seamlessly contained, unfortunately for a considerable length of time. It doesn't help at all that an array of world 'leaders' are leveraging this dilemma to put large populations at grave risk. There is certainly legitimacy where economic meltdown comes into play. At the individual level, working people and the poor stand to experience a whole world of pain (even more than usual). But proliferating fear, setting people against one another, attempting to hobble state govt's. and now even Congress to gain ultimate autocracy by actually utilizing this situation, by undercutting/eliminating medical funding, in short to deliberately manufacture endemic social havoc so to derail any organized democratic process in order to work around an election-year and remain self-appointed king, is an added problem of historical dimensions. Demonizing the W.H.O. and publicly lauding those who protest wearing protective masks and gloves, and getting any number of anarchic messages out by any media available is helping to foment the perfect shit-storm. It's terrifying, because as Ignatious666 above points out, given the degree of mass confusion in the air, along with the financial desperation growing every minute, there could be large-scale behavioural breakdowns and authoritarian counter-measures that dismantle reality in ways that could be termed "retribution' i guess. But retribution for what, and by whom, and to whom? Somehow, truth and common sense must prevail. Every 'average' person has to be made to understand what's at stake here. Covid-19 is only one of the chainsaws that we're juggling.
	♥ 8:53am Jeffrey Davison: Ignatatus, you're out more than I am, but I see most people wearing masks or face covering. I'd say 75 percent, maybe more. I don't know why cops and others you mention wouldn't wear masks, and I assume that NYPD would have masks, but I also know that states and municipalities are struggling to buy these supplies. Luckily Jared Kushner is in charge of what he calls the "shadow" Covid department. Now there's someone who knows his shit.
	♥ 8:53am Brian in UK: Jeffrey just as a side issue. Great music.
	8:54am RoseWillHank: Yes, definitely a good idea to listen to Null, @Jeffrey
	♥ 8:54am Jeffrey Davison: Brian, thanks! Yeah, the music...
	♥ 8:54am TDK60: Thanks Jeffrey. Stay safe folks. Stiff upper ear.
	8:55am Earth Walker: 666 Right. I have 3m masks left over from construction like work I did before They work but still suck The French are definitely aware of the malaria drug and the government’s attempt to block it The pharmaceutical industry I know is perversely unregulated in the States before the 10 year paten date they pull a majority of the drugs off the market
	♥ 8:55am Strandlund: Kushner does know his shit...he married into it!
	8:56am Earth Walker: Thanks so much for the show !
	♥ 8:56am Ignatatus666: Jeffrey I’m driving through garrison Coldspring area it’s 37° with light wet snow mixed
	♥ 8:57am Strandlund: Stay safe everyone...
	♥ 8:58am Jeffrey Davison: Thanks to everyone for listening. I hope, as always, virus or no virus, that this show brings good music and good vibes into your life. Music is a healing force, never more so than now. Stay safe, stay informed, stay healthy, and if you need help, reach out to someone and make a connection. Who knows, maybe that person needs to hear from you, and you'll do good for both of you...
	♥ 8:59am duke: Thanks Jeffrey!

Shrunken Planet with Jeffrey Davison: Playlist from April 18, 2020

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