Our Song with LYNN: "Some Rain Tonight" by Don Paul and Rivers Answer Moons with Lynn Drury
Yesterday--the AUSPICIOUS December 1--was/is LYNN DRURY's Birthday. To celebrate, here's the Track that she recorded with Rivers Answer Moons this year for our upcoming LOUISIANA STORIES Album.
December 2, 2024
LYNN DRURY is beloved by many.
She’s a songwriter, a singer and bandleader. She performs in New Orleans and across North America. She won rodeo prizes when young as five years old in Yazoo City, Mississippi and she found and learned Guitar like it was her Lasso and Voice around the time the USA arrived at its first Millenium. She leads a very find band that I wish were playing weekly a New Orleans’ venue.
You can visit Lynn’s website HERE.
She’s lyrical, soulful, and the chords that she finnds extend into Jazz. She was perfect to sing “Some Rain Tonight”, a song about the ‘BP Oil-Spill’ circa mid-May 2010, as that unnatural disaster and insanity persisted and spread across the Gulf of Mexico ‘like a dark bruise swells’, and she and the Rivers Answer Moons band—ROGER LEWIS, KIRK JOSEPH, HERMAN LEBEAUX, DON VAPPIE, and ALEXEY MARTI—delivered on the subject with their great skills and sympathy.
We first tracked “Some Rain Tonight” with Lynn in RICK G. NELSON’s Marigny Studio on March 11, 2024 with Rick as Engineer. Roger, Don, Herman, Alexey and Kirk overdubbed parts on April 8, 15 and 18 with ADAM KEIL as our Engineer.
Rick G. Nelson, Herman LeBeaux, Kirk Joseph, DP, Don Vappie, March 11, 2024. Photo by Maryse Philippe Déjean.
Finishing touches were done with JUSTIN TOCKET as Engineer in Dockside Studio on July 31. There were “gang vocals” on the “Crime goes on so long as we keep still” Chorus, as LOUIS MICHOT and ANDRE MICHOT sang with Don, Kirk, and Roger. Then Justin and I did the mix at Dockside on October 7 and I did some Fine Tooth Comber process in the Audacity freeware over a few weeks afterward.
Justin Tocket, video-still from Don Vappie’s camera, Dockside Studio, July 31, 2024.
Thank YOU, Lynn! You hit every note, intonation, and emphasis right!
“Some Rain Tonight”
Below, page 12 from our 20-Page Booklet accompanying the 2-CD Album LOUISIANA STORIES. Left-hand column concludes ‘The Dreamers and the Believers’. with a view of the Field Of Miracles in New Orleans’ Riverside Park, and then we go to “Some Rain Tonight”.
You may want to hear the music more closely. Here’s the Instrumental of “Some Rain Tonight”. Everyone really “reaches”—as IDRIS MUHAMMAD said about his generation in the 1960s—to deliver, as I hear them. Lynn’s voice is ghostly-present on the Instrumental—kind of interesting, that way. Sing along!
“Some Rain Tonight” Instrumental
Please come—if you’re in New Orleans or nearby or could use a very good reason to fly into New Orleans—to our Album-Release Party this coming Friday night, December 6, 6:00 to 9:00 in the upstairs EVOLVE Space of the Angela King Gallery.
Roger, Kirk, Don, Herman and—I think—Alexey and Lynn will be there to talk about Tracks between the nice sound-system’s playing of them. Wine from Frey Vineyards! One-of-a-kind finger-food, inspired by Cicchetti in that other Venice! Opportunity to buy the 2-CD Album for a bargain-price of $30 and benefit Sticking Up For Children’s Partners in Haiti and Louisiana!
Have we mentioned that the Album’s front-cover photo is of an Oak strung with Lights in New Orleans’ City Park VOLUNTARILY by a groundskeeper there? The image exemplifies for us what Louisiana is and can be ABOUT. Photo from December 2023 and again by Maryse.
See you soon, we hope! And THANKS once more for the early responses to this Album. We’re really happy with it, too.
The last Listening Party was a most enjoyable Gas.
The ‘B. P. Oil-Spill was subject for a few posts by me with BILL JABLONSKI on his PuppetGov.com website in Spring 2024. PATTI SMITH highlit the ‘Save Our Gulf’ needs through the ‘Souvenance’ page of her Website soon after she contributed “a clump of cash” to our efforts with the Wesley United Digital Arts Project for young people in Central City.
With Patti and SAKURA KONE, April 2010. Photo by Diego Cortez.
