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Hey Friends! 

We're nearly 5 months off the road now, the longest we've ever gone without regular gigging.  We're both beginning to feel the effect of this in our playing, in our state of mind and our very approach to making music.  Not an easy path to navigate, but we do our best to keep each other hopeful and inspired.  
We're continuing to write and record (new album in 2021?); 
To play and record our Facebook Live from the Porch Sessions (new live album 2021?);  
And encouraging ourselves to explore more…

Hello Friends, 

Such incredible and intense times we are living through.  These last couple of weeks (or so) have been unprecedented and are shifting the consciousness in significant ways. 

It's sometimes hard to know what to say right away, so we've spent a lot of time reading, listening, sighing, meditating, and learning.  The journey towards Unity and healing centuries-old injustices will not be remedied in a day, a week, nor months.  This will be a life-long process that we all take part in. 

We are…

We've been enjoying playing every week for you, live from our porch (or living room), 10 weeks and counting now!

We're filming and recording these sets as well, for YouTube and for a future digital release. 

Thanks so much for the ongoing support!

Here's a recent performance, featuring our cover of Bob Dylan's Can't Wait.

Happy All Saints Day! 
Of course, in New Orleans, it's all Saints, all the time, lol (#whodat !) 

We have been enjoying our autumn road adventures and collecting new friends and fans along the way. 
We seem to have such an affinity for Tennessee, and are going back up to Nashville November 9th to play a BAND SHOW! at the groovy place called Dee's Country Cocktail Lounge.  SO EXCITED!! 

We actually have a new song called Take Me to Tennessee that will be on a future album. 
(No, we're not going into the studio…

We've got the whole set from French Quarter Fest posted on YouTube now!!

Plus two more band shows during Jazz Fest season in New Orleans!

Thur April 25th at Checkpoint Charlie's (11pm) 501 Esplanade Ave.

Thur May 2nd at Portside Lounge (9pm) 3000 Dryades

We're also very close to 1K likes on our FB page!  We'd so appreciate your shares/likes on social media if you're on those platforms.

Thanks so so much for your kindness, love and support!!! xoxo M&M

Hey friends!  

The open road awaits...just days away from our biggest adventure yet!

Our recent show at New Orleans Museum of Art was amazing, we're so happy with how it turned out.  Thanks to everyone who helped make it magical.  We've got 6 videos from that night uploaded to YouTube now! 

We have a new record in the works!!! We’ll have a limited pre-production run with us on the Spark Tour. 
We’ll finalize the record for release this autumn, but in the meantime we have two singles on the website to…

Lots happening for The DRR this spring/summer!

We just finished filming two scenes with NCIS: New Orleans (Airs Tuesdays on CBS). 
It was an absolute pleasure working with the whole crew; nothing but nice things to be said for these hard-working folks!!!
The episode we're in airs TUESDAY, MAY 15TH ON CBS (8PM CST)  Look for Tom Arnold too!

The two songs we performed on the show - I've Seen and Pick Out Your Own Cloud - will also be on our upcoming duo record (in the process of recording now!)  Look for…

16 shows, 23 days, 5,000 miles.

Mad love, beautiful places, amazing people.

So much gratitude to you all for the journey and the hope of tomorrow.

We'll be sorting photos and posting video from the tour soon....there's always a bit of work to do after the work and the play. 

We wouldn't trade it. 

Stay tuned, and check out our Instagram feeds here, as we've posted some clips - El DeOrazio and The Dirty Rain Revelers

Melissa also has an Instagram where she posts her photography as well - Mrs DeOrazio

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Our final show for the Music at the Mint series is THIS FRIDAY!!!  LIVESTREAM LINK HERE 7pm-8:30pm central time

What a pleasure it's been to perform in that theater!  We hope you'll join us for the last of the series.  And if you're passing through New Orleans sometime, there are a variety of events and shows that take place in the museum, highly recommended. 
We'll have Nat Lawrence on grand piano and keys, Smitti Supab on bass and Gus Haiko on drums for this show!

We had fun stopping in at WWL TV for the…

What a treat!  Matthew and Ian had fun being 'on the set' in the French Quarter, and meeting director Rob Morrow.  They performed an instrumental version of our song, I've Seen on the episode.  They show up at about the halfway mark if you're watching the episode later.  We're looking forward to more fun adventures like this :)

Vintage Guitar Magazine featured a review about the New Orleans Guitar Company Model 8 and they included our video as the demo feature for this particular guitar!
(This article originally appeared in VG August 2012 print issue)
Read the review here, and scroll to the bottom to watch Matthew record his guitar track for "Song for Melissa", for our CD Magnolia, using the same instrument they used in the review.  (NOGC Model 8) 
http://www.vintageguitar.com/16999/new-orleans-guitar-company-model-8/

("Song for…

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