by John Gros | Jul 30, 2018 | News
George Porter says, by learning a new song, you acquire new tools to put in your tool belt. Then at the next gig you learn something else and add that to your tool belt. So when you are fifteen, twenty years down the road, you have a full tool belt to work with. The...
by John Gros | Jul 27, 2018 | News
by John Gros | Jul 25, 2018 | News
Musically, what’s challenging to me right now is to just stay fresh by adding something new to my vocabulary. It can be very small and very simple. It doesn’t have to be anything complex or a reinvention of the wheel. Just something that keeps me engaged...
by John Gros | Jul 24, 2018 | News
I have embraced my past, am comfortable with my present and am looking forward to this next phase in my career.
by John Gros | Jul 23, 2018 | News
If you want to contribute to the New Orleans music tradition, then you can never take a day off. If your goal is set high, the bar is set even higher by the “greats” who came before you. You’ll never get there if you don’t put the time in....
by John Gros | Jul 20, 2018 | News
About the song “Why’d You Do It?” I was in Jamaica for a week and came back with a little Reggae melody. which became “Why’d You Do It”. I told the guys, “I hear this as Reggae but I don’t want to make it sound Reggae. Let’s...
