Interview with and musical performance by Canray Fontenot

Accession No.: 
AN1-104

Canray Fontenot:

-Chansons à Amédé (Lacassine Special, Two Step à Mama);
-J'ai Fait Une Grosse Erreur;
-Untitled Waltz (Part sounds like Rainbow Waltz);
-Fragment d'un two-step pris d'une disque 45 rpm (Les Belles Filles Veulent Plus Me Voir à Joe Falcon);

-Drunkard's Waltz (5:14);
-Reve de soulard;
-Quoi faire-à defunct Amédé. Alphonse sonnait la basse tringue;

-Blues fragment (11:30);
-Iry made Bosco Blues/World in a Jug himself;
-Rag/Polka fragment;

-Full-sized violins sound better acoustically, but 3/4-sized is more comfortable/easier for Canray to play (15:00);
-Bois-sec and Canray playing dances;
-Early tune: Le vieux Bob Wills mort dans un old-folks home. Sad with all the money he had;
-Howling Wolf Blues. Clifton redid it and called it 'Calinda';

-Fi Fi Foncho (21:31);
-Someone killed him. He retired and keeps the bottle. He says he'll die at the end of the table and he quit eating;
-Bois-sec and Canray playing at the Avalon Club on Friday nights and on Queen's Lounge? on Tuesday nights;

Media Type: 
Audio
Collection: 
Ancelet
Subject: 
Louisiana; Creoles; Folk music; Violins; Fiddles; Canray Fontenot Personal Narrative
Creator: 
Barry Jean Ancelet
Informants: 
Canray Fontenot
Recording date: 
Friday, October 7, 1977
Coverage Spatial: 
Welsh, LA
Publisher: 
Center for Louisiana Studies
Rights Usage: 
All Rights Reserved
Language: 
French
Meta Information
Duration: 
25:13
Cataloged Date: 
Wednesday, July 5, 2017
Digitized Date: 
Tuesday, January 1, 2002
Original Format: 
Audio--Reel--5"
Digital Format: 
WAV
Bit Depth: 
24 bit
Sampling Rate: 
96 kHz
Storage Location: 
Archives of Cajun and Creole Folklore - Cabinet 1 Shelf 2