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RD: Yeah, we met via YouTube, of all places. We both were in bands, separate bands and we
both had music videos on a music video competition in the early days of YouTube.

GV: In 2005.

RD: Yeah, and so we kind of sent each other messages via our bands. We're like, hey, your band’s,
cool, your band’s cool. We should do something together. And I was doing a lot of photography
at the time.

GV: He was doing a lot of photos at the time, and we were just friends and I just asked him if he
would come over and do some portraits for me, like for my band and whatever. So he came over
and that was the first time we met in person, and I thought he was really cute. But like we were
both in relationships at the time, so it took years kind of before we got together in 2008. So it
was kind of two years after we actually met, but that's how it happened, and actually, the new
song, ‘Oh Yeah’, I kind of tell that story.

BiTS: Tell me about the name
of the band. Is it a kind of
tribute to Dr John?

Doctor John GV: Sort of. It's like a tribute
to Louisiana. I kind of wanted
an alter ego name or a band
name that kind of explained
what we were going to be
about. So Beau, had I been
born a boy, my name would
have been Beaux, which is like
just such a southern name
and so Beaux Gris Gris. My
name would have been Beau
Gregory and so that translates
to Beau Gris Gris, but also Gris Gris is a voodoo kind of amulet or good luck charm or spell. So it
kind of just made for a fun name. Plus, obviously, Dr John has that album which I'm shocked how
many people don't know about that or Dr John, so it's kind of a great talking point to educate

people on Louisiana, on music history of Louisiana. On the cultural history of Louisiana and kind
of how everything comes together. So I just thought it was kind of a fun name to get the ball
rolling.

BiTS: It's a fabulous name. I have to say that I have listened and played on my radio show the
tracks from the “Live In The UK” album. Absolutely fabulous stuff. I'm looking forward to you
doing it again. Is the new one similar?

GV: The new album, I would say it's very varied, so it's similar in that way. Our first album was
in 2019, sorry, I think we released it in 2018, and then our second album we released in 2020.
So it was like kind of in the pandemic and that was a shorter album, and it was a little more
eclectic. So this album is called “Hot Nostalgia Radio” because we kind of had the same idea as
Beyoncé. Like, we're kind of, you know, a little bit genre-less. We're kind of all over the map
genre-wise, but it all fits together. And so what's really cool about the new album is I feel like it's
kind of the glue between all of our older songs. They're all going to kind of connect with some
of the older songs that maybe seemed disjointed or out of place at the time. But now when you
see them all in context with all the newer stuff, it's going to kind of all flow together quite well.