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Don Paul & Rivers Answer Moons

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Don Paul      Roger Lewis      Kirk Joseph      Herman LeBeaux       Don Vappie

DON PAUL
'LIKE SHAKESPEARE, JACK KEROUAC, LANGSTON HUGHES, VIRGINIA WOOLF, AND CARSON MCCULLERS, DON PAUL USES WORDS LIKE MUSIC'---
DAVID AMRAM

 

ROGER LEWIS
'THERE'S NO DENYING THE ARTISTRY OF WHAT LEWIS IS DOING'=---
DODIE LOUIS GOULD ON ROGER LEWIS' ALBUM 
ALRIGHT!

 

KIRK JOSEPH
'SIR KIRK IS SUCH AN OBVIOUS STAR [...] A ONE-IN-A-MILLION PLAYER'--
ELVIS COSTELLO

 

HERMAN LEBEAUX
DRUMMER FOR ALLEN TOUSSANT OVER 20 YEARS, HERMAN
LEBEAUX IS AMONG NEW ORLEANS' MOST ADMIRED MUSICIANS AND TEACHERS

 

DON VAPPIE
'MR. VAPPIE IS A BORN STORYTELLER--AN URBAN GRIOT'--
RAUL DE GAMA ON DON VAPPIES' ALBUM THE BLUE BOOK OF STORYVILLE

 

'Full-Spectrum Art'--
Hobart Taylor, KUCI, University of California Irvine.

'Some of the most superbly creative, funky fun you'll ever hear'--Dick Metcalf, Contemporary Fusion Review, on Don Paul's 2022 album LOVE OVER WAR.
 

'There's no denying the art of what Lewis is doing'--Dodie Louis Gould on Roger Lewis 2022 album ALRIGHT!. 'Free, funky, bluesy, endlessly creative, fun, unpredictable, independent, jazzy, and a gumbo of influences'--Allen Michie in ArtsFuse on ALRIGHT! .
 

'Sousaphonist Kirk Joseph is as fast and funky as any electric bassist'--Geoffrey Himes in the Washington Post. 'Sir Kirk ... is such an obvious star ...
a one-in-a-million player'--Elvis Costello.

Because the River

Answers to the Moon

And gathers silt

Sky and River

From all its Streams

Never choose

Who touches them

And whom they touch.

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