Interview with Helen Falcon Guillot and Marie Falcon (Part 2)

Accession No.: 
BR2-024-2

Interview with Helen Falcon Guillot and Marie Falcon:

00:00 - Songs that Marie used to sing with the band
01:00 - Playing with Chute Richard and the breakup of the band
02:40 - Playing with Doug and Rusty Kershaw
04:50 - Quitting Chute Richard's band
05:50 - George Khorey's pay for a record
06:40 - More on Rusty, Doug, Pee Wee Kershaw
08:30 - Other bands active in Lake Charles, Popularity of French Music
09:15 - Joe switching between record companies
11:00 - Speaking French and teaching the language to their children
15:40 - Cleoma and Joe traveling to New York, Atlanta, Chicago, and New Orleans to make records
14:30 - Cleoma's accident and death
16:00 - Joe stopping recording after Cleoma's death
18:00 - Marie and Helen's grandmother singing and teaching Cajun ballads
21:00 - Practicing songs for gigs - Coming in from the fields to practice
23:00 - Stories their grandmother would tell them
24:30 - Joe adopting one of his daughters
26:30 - Johnny Allen - Starting music and getting his first guitar by selling seeds and learning to play
29:40 - Johnny starting with Walter Mouton, playing with Lawrence Walker
30:40 - Reputations of older musicians
32:00 - Effect of old-style Cajun music after the stringbands came along
33:00 - Bob Will's influence on the stringbands
33:40 - Harry Choates' popularity - Origin of Jolie Blonde
35:40 - Mayus Lafleur - "Chère Mom"
37:55 - Joe made his living totally from playing music
41:00 - Cleoma and Ulysse playing Accordion
42:50 - Joe's Accordion - A black Monarch "D"
44:30 - The Babineaux Brothers - a black family band who influenced Clifton Chenier
47:00 - Amedé Ardoin - his music, popularity, and showmanship

Media Type: 
Audio
Collection: 
Broven
Subject: 
Louisiana; Music;
Creator: 
John Broven
Informants: 
Johnnie Allan
Recording date: 
Monday, October 24, 1983
Coverage Spatial: 
Lafayette, LA
Publisher: 
John Broven
Rights Usage: 
All rights reserved
Language: 
English
Meta Information
Duration: 
48:04
Cataloged Date: 
Tuesday, May 28, 2019
Digitized Date: 
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Original Format: 
Audio--Cassette--90
Digital Format: 
Audio
Bit Depth: 
16 bit
Sampling Rate: 
44.1k
Storage Location: 
Returned to donor