'Jack Groves'

Jack is one great character among the revelations I met while roughnecking in Louisiana, Texas, and the Gulf of Mexico

June 22, 2024. ‘Jack Groves’, as recorded by Don Paul and Rivers Answer Moons (DPRAM) in March and April 2024. DON VAPPIE, co-composer, mastering, and Banjo; ROGER LEWIS, Baritone Saxophone; KIRK JOSEPH Sousaphone; and HERMAN LEBEAUX, Drums-Set. Please see more from and about DPRAM over on the Sticking Up For Children website. And please check out SUFC’s “tree-mendous” Partners in Haiti and New Orleans and their steady work to ‘Sustain Success.’

February 2023. Thank you all for the great responses to ‘Marsha’s’, that poem and performance in tribute to the woman who most introduced New Orleans to me. Here, another tribute talks about ‘my first driller’ in the Oil-Field, Jack Groves, of Lake Charles and Broussard, Louisiana, guitar-player, paratrooper in World War Ii, and revelatory story-teller. You can check out my reading of the poem after its text.

'Jack Groves' performed

Performing ‘Jack Groves’—