DPRAM

DON VAPPIE: "The Banjo Cuts Right Through". Also: Don V. on the Banjo as an African instrument percussively fit fit for Funk and melodically fit for Story-Telling. by Don Paul

The master player (Banjo Hall of Fame, Steve Martin Prize) tells how the Banjo works as Percussion and also Melody witht Griots. Speaking in the DPRAM Launch-Party in the Angela King Gallery.

"This Music Is Spiritual"--ROGER LEWIS speaks at DPRAM's Launch-Party about how creation of LOUISIANA STORIES came to be. Then: Tracks that Give a "Spiritual" "Blend". by Don Paul

The saxophonist, a never-know-it 83 who began to play. the Dew Drop. Inn when 16, also talks about how "the whole thing blended together."

HERMAN's "Roux". LOUISIANA STORIES Launch-Party #2. HERMAN LEBEAUX: "At some point, as Allen Toussaint would say, Serendipity stepped in ... The whole thing just blended together." by Don Paul

Herman LeBeaux, Drums-Set and Sound-Scapes for Rivers Answer Moons, speaks about the how the LOUISIANA STORIES' opening two Tracks grew.

KIRK JOSEPH on playing: "We all have a distinction.... When we learn as a people to respect that and understand that, then I think things will be more beautiful, and as a human race we will grow.” by Don Paul

Kirk also responds to the "Roux" that HERMAN LEBEAUX has raised and talks about riding two Horses with his Sousaphone in the Rivers Answer Moons band and throughout our Album LOUIISIANA STORIES.

'Colors Changing Color' of LOUISIANA STORIES. Musicians Talk about Becoming "like One Person" in Their Playing. by Don Paul

Kirk Joseph, Louis Michot, Roger Lewis, André Michot, Alexey Marti, Don Vappie, and Justin Tocket relate their experience after "what just happened" inside Dockside Studio of Maurice, Louisiana.