Description
Release Date: 2024
Label: Independent
Track List
Disc 1
- Louisiana Days, Louisiana Nights (instrumental)
- The Bands are Bringing Everyone Home (instrumental)
- Marsha’s (instrumental)
- Jack Groves (instrumental)
- Something You Got (instrumental)
- My Mother’s Spirit Speaks to Me Whispering of Eternity (instrumental)
- The Dreamers and the Believers (instrumental)
- Some Rain Tonight (instrumental)
- Colors Changing Color (instrumental)
- Get Your JAM On! (instrumental)
Disc 2
- Louisiana Days, Louisiana Nights
- The Bands are Bringing Everyone Home
- Marsha’s
- Jack Groves
- Something You Got
- My Mother’s Spirit Speaks to Me Whispering of Eternity
- The Dreamers and the Believers
- Some Rain Tonight
- Colors Changing Color
- Get Your JAM On!
- Our Trains Keep A-Comin”
- Ev’ry Child is Born to be the Light of Dawn
Personnel
- Don Paul – spoken word
- Kirk Joseph – sousaphone
- Herman Lebeaux – drums
- Roger Lewis – baritone saxophone
- Don Vappie – banjo
- Alexey Marti – percussion
- Erica Falls, Lynn Drury – vocals
- also featuring: Louis Michot, Andre Michot, Herlin Riley, Michael Torregano Jr., Mario Abney
Notes
LOUISIANA STORIES. An Album of two CDs. One of 12 Tracks with Vocals. One 10 Tracks of Instrumentals.
An Album that paints scenes and portraits across a State—and across the United States. An Album for Bodies and Minds. An Album of ‘Poetry and Music for Musing and Dancing.’ An Album whose Motto is: ‘FUN is the Biggest part of FUNKY.’ An Album that repeats “Freedom here be like nowhere else” about Louisiana and the United States.
An Album of two CDs that bathe you in their riches for two hours and 18 minutes.
An Album by the Rivers Answer Moons Band of stars. ‘Like Shakespeare, Jack Kerouac, Langston Hughes, Virginia Woolf and Carson McCullers, DON PAUL uses words like music’—DAVID AMRAM. ‘There’s no doubt about the artistry of ROGER LEWIS’—DODIE GOULD. ‘KIRK JOSEPH is a one-in-a-million player”—ELVIS COSTELLO. DON VAPPIE is in the Banjo Hall of Fame.
HERMAN LEBEAUX was Drummer and Percussionist for ALLEN TOUSSAINT over 20 years. ALEXEY MARTI of Cuba leads his own band through two Albums since 2017.
‘That was quite the awesome experience,’ LOUIS MICHOT wrote to Don Paul after he and brother ANDRE MICHOT recorded on five Tracks for LOUISIANA STORIES, July of 2024. “This is how music is supposed to sound,” BIG CHIEF SHAKA ZULU said after hearing the 12 Tracks with Vocals in a Listening-Party at the Angela King Gallery last August. “I could listen to these Tracks
all night,” KELLY LOVE JONES said at that Party.
An Album whose Lyrics and Music immediately inspire love. ‘I LOVED IT!’ KATE SMITH writes. ‘The instrumentation is colorful and poignant as the precious lives depicted. It’s all so rich you can taste the colors and smell the sounds.’ “I love it!” JACKIE HARRIS says. “It’s a great Album, and the music is exceptional.” “I love it! It’s so good!” ANDRE RAMOS says. ‘I love LOUISIANA STORIES so much,” NANCY YVONNE MEREDITH writes. ‘Much gratitude for the generous gifts and truly marvelous achievement.’ ‘The production blew me away. All so great. Love it. What an undertaking,’ writes PEARL MCDONALD. ‘Wow! Talk about a mix! Sounds terrific,’ MELISSA GREGORY RUE writes. ‘Don, I just want to tell you that the new album is GREAT! You all sound fantastic!’ LINDA SEABRIGHT writes. “I love LOUISIANA STORIES,” JENNIFER MAXWELL says. “It fills me with positive feelings.” ‘The record sounds great. It’s just amazing, and I’m proud to be a part of it,” LYNN DRURY writes. ’Soon as I get a download it’s on my show,’ HOBART TAYLOR writes.
DPRAM—Don Paul and Rivers Answer Moons—THANK each and every person and moment composing LOUISIANA STORIES and especially THANK our Engineers JUSTIN TOCKET, RICK G. NELSON, ADAM KEIL, and DAVID FARRELL and the Studios Marigny and Dockside.
With guests HERLIN RILEY, MICHAEL TORREGANO JR., MARIO ABNEY and ERICA FALLS on the Song “Get Your JAM On!” and guest LYNN DRURY on the Song “Some Rain Tonight.”
Irresistible / Revolutionary Records #29. All Tracks Copyright 2024 and BMI and/or ASCAP.
