When Craziness Becomes The Norm
About the song "Cocaine and Chicken Fricassée" - My previous band, Papa Grows Funk, played on Monday nights for 13 years. Over the course of those years, I saw all kinds of crazy things. I saw so much that that type of craziness becomes the norm. So, when something...
A Real Live Show Announcement!
The 17 year Bacchus Sunday, FUNK N CHANT tradition continues! John "Papa" Gros with special guest, Big Chief Monk Boudreaux, will play live outside at Southport Hall Hall on Bacchus Sunday, February 14th. In lieu of parades, I've got the tunes and grooves to catapult...
Make People Feel Special
When I was in college, I played at a neighborhood bar called Bonne Terre's Lounge in New Orleans East with Rockin' Jerry & the Spice of Life Band. And we covered everything from Elvis Presley to Led Zeppelin, Prince, all the hits of the day, classic New Orleans...
Central City Vinyl is HERE
John "Papa" Gros Central City Vinyl LP Central City vinyl is a 12" LP, 33 1/3 rpm, 180 gram record pressed locally at New Orleans Record Press. With each purchase, you will receive a FREE link to download the Central City Digital Booklet, containing song lyrics and...
GroSTREAM #8: Back Room Session
I'm GroSTREAMing.... John "Papa" GroSTREAM Saturday, May 30th 8pm (CST). I'll be in the Back Room doing the do. The stream will be broadcast from the John Papa Gros facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/JohnPapaGros/live/ This week I would have been playing a solo...
Stanton Moore
Stanton Moore of Galactic talking about John
Making People Feel Special
https://youtu.be/byJ0h13no0I
Seriousness
You have to be as good as you can be every single night. https://youtu.be/vDB-Xp2gE3w
The Sounds I Grew Up With
The sounds I grew up with are on the album "Central City" Get your copy of "Central City" at https://johnpapagros.com/product-category/music/ https://youtu.be/Da-iuVU5KFI