Don Paul and Rivers Answer Moons - Louisiana Stories

LOUISIANA STORIES celebrates cultures and characters of this State. Its two CDs were the #1 Crossover Jazz album in North America for 22 Weeks in 2025. It received widespread love, "this album is an artistic masterpiece," wrote Thierry de Clemensat in Paris Move, "...the band is of stars, each one inspired, and Paul delivers his distilled poetry like fine rum." "I loved it!" responded Jackie Harris of the Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation and Summer Jazz Camp, "...it's a great album, and the music is exceptional." "Wow! What a show!" wrote Donna Poniatowski Sims of the fabled Donna's Bar & Grill, "...the great musicians took me on a technicolor tour with their amazing improvisations to Don Paul's lyrics." "I love LOUISIANA STORIES so much," wrote Nancy Yvonne Meredith. "I really love the album," Joe Dimino said on his Neon Jazz podcast. Multiple GRAMMY® winners feature in this Premiere of LOUISIANA STORIES by Don Paul and Rivers Answers (DPRAM) in the heart of Louisiana's holiday season. The ensemble features ROGER LEWIS and KIRK JOSEPH of the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, MICHAEL DOUCET of Beausoleil, and LOUIS and ANDRÉ MICHOT of the Lost Bayou Ramblers?all collective winners of 8 GRAMMY® awards over the past decade! Plus, guitarist and singer DON VAPPIE of the international Banjo Hall of Fame, luminaries HERMAN LEBEAUX and ALEXEY