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Giants (Download)

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Giants, the 2026 album from John “Papa” Gros, is a groove-deep tribute to the giants who shaped his musical DNA—Allen Toussaint, Dr. John, The Meters, Levon Helm, and Billy Preston. Giants captures Gros at full throttle: reverent but fearless, steeped in tradition yet unmistakably present. This is New Orleans music as a living thing—meant to move, sweat, and breathe.

Drop the needle. Turn it up. These giants still walk among us.

With support from the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation and the Threadhead Cultural Foundation, the album captures classic songs honed night after night onstage—jammed, stretched, and refined in front of live audiences—before being recorded live at Silent S Recording Studio in New Orleans, Louisiana.

This version of Giants will download as a .zip file. Once downloaded, it needs to be unzipped to extract the songs in .m4a file format which can then be played with any mp3 media player.

Giants, the 2026 album from John “Papa” Gros, is a groove-deep tribute to the giants who shaped his musical DNA—Allen Toussaint, Dr. John, The Meters, Levon Helm, and Billy Preston. Giants captures Gros at full throttle: reverent but fearless, steeped in tradition yet unmistakably present. This is New Orleans music as a living thing—meant to move, sweat, and breathe.

Drop the needle. Turn it up. These giants still walk among us.

With support from the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation and the Threadhead Cultural Foundation, the album captures classic songs honed night after night onstage—jammed, stretched, and refined in front of live audiences—before being recorded live at Silent S Recording Studio in New Orleans, Louisiana.

This version of Giants will download as a .zip file. Once downloaded, it needs to be unzipped to extract the songs in .m4a file format which can then be played with any mp3 media player.

Quitters Never Win 5:57
Hurricane 6:39
All That I’ve Got 6:43
Yes We Can Can 7:27
Ain’t No Use       10:58

Total Time: 37:44

Produced by John Gros
Mixed by Tracey Freeman
Recorded by David Farrell at Silent S Studio, New Orleans, LA January 12-14, 2024
Additional recording by John Gros at Silent S Studio, New Orleans, LA
Edited by John Gros

JPG: vox, piano, wurly, organ, arangements, horn arrangements
Alex Mallet: guitars
Matt Booth: bass
Russ Brousard: drums
Michael Christie: trumpet
Ian Bowman: tenor saxophone
Terrance Taplin: trombone
Yolanda Robinson: backing vocals
Kiki Chapman: backing vocals
Mark Carson: backing vocals
Danny Abel: rhythm guitar, track 3