LOUISIANA STORIES spans geographies and generations and musical genres. It’s Sunrise and Sunset and it offers Keen Emphases on the sweat after Noon and between Midnight and Dawn. It’s like making love while dancing or imagining lives’ stories while making love. It’s Rigs meant for Offshore with legs consecutively canted like spars of fantastic Armada and it’s a mother calling friends “Boo” and her children “darling sugar-puddins” and Oil-Field Hands calling each other “Sugar” and “Babe”. It’s something you got. See where you go. Freedom here is feeling each day… This Album and Stage-Show, its Lyrics and Over-the-Top Musicianship, above all intend to bring new perceptions and pleasures…. ENJOYMENT of what’s always grown here. “Lou-Eez-Eee-Ann-Ah / Lou-Eez-Eee- Ann-Ah … ”

MUSICIANS
DON PAUL Poet
ROGER LEWIS Saxophones
KIRK JOSEPH Sousaphone
DON VAPPIE Banjo and Guitar
HERMAN LEBEAUX Drums-Set and Sound-Scapes ALEXEY MARTI Congas and Cajon.

Our guests on the two opening and two closing Tracks, the Tracks most thematically shaping LOUISIANA STORIES, are the comparably steeped musicians of Acadiana:
LOUIS MICHOT on violin
ANDRE MICHOT on accordion

LYNN DRURY leads everybody’s singing on “Some Rain Tonight.”