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Cloud Hangin' Over Me

Cloud Hangin' Over Me

Thousands of Katrina refugees finally make it out of the Superdome and are bussed to the Astrodome in Houston. Days later, they take a direct hit from Hurricane Rita. I said to somebody “those folks must feel like they got a cloud hangin’ over them.” This song is about missing home and a way of life you only find in New Orleans. Click the link below to listen . . .

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Lined Up Losers

Lined Up Losers

I wrote this song behind the wheel on a mid-winter tour from northern California through Colorado and on south.  We drove two days straight to the first gig in Park City, took a blizzard with no snow tires, a flat in the desert and no heat the whole way.  A lucky hit on a video poker machine bought us food and gas to get us started – had to be a song in there somewhere. Click the link below to listen . . .

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Garland Paul

Garland Paul pic.jpgGarland Paul

Born: New Orleans, LA

Instruments: DW Pacific 5-Piece Drum Kit, assorted percussion

Garland Paul began playing drums at age seven, laying down his first beats on his father’s drum kit. Inspired by his father’s eclectic music collection, Paul cut his teeth on everything from Miles Davis and classic jazz to Earth Wind and Fire and what he calls “good old soul music.” Early influences included Buddy Rich, Stuart Copeland, session wizard Steve Gadd.

“He was somebody I listened to a lot,” Paul says. “He played with just about everybody in the world. I liked the fact that he could play anything - he had his own sound and could make that work for any style of music.”

Paul took his early lessons in the church band, where he held the drummer’s seat from age 13 all the way through high school. By age 17 he was more or less a professional drummer, playing in a variety of New Orleans musical circles, from reggae and blues bands to the Bourbon Street clubs.

In 2005, Paul headed to the west coast in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, where a random encounter at a San Francisco bar reunited him with fellow New Orleanians Aaron Wilkinson and Chris Mulé. Together with bassist Sam Price, who’d also wound up in San Francisco, they launched the Honey Island Swamp Band as a refugee project. Paul and the other Honey Islanders have since returned to New Orleans, introducing the band in its rightful home.

Performance Credits:
Irie Vibration
T-roy and the Vibes
Renard Poché
Walter “Wolfman” Washington
John Carey

Discography:
Honey Island Swamp Band, Honey Island Swamp Band, 2007
Foulmouth Munchkin, Fishing for Mermaids, 1999
Grace Darling, Grace Darling, 1998
John Carey, New Orleans Blues Reunion, 1997
T-roy and the Vibes, First Son, 1996

 

 

Contact

Aaron Wilkinson - 504-858-3244

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Chris Mule - 404-992-2957

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