Interview with Joe Falcon and Leo Soileau (Repeat of RI1-011)
*Repeat of RI1-001; See RI1-001 for more details*
10 October 1965; Conversation with Joe Falcon (continued);
00:00:10 - Comparing differences between dances in the past to the present;
00:01:10 - Rinzler asks if Joe remembers any black or creole musicians; Babineaux; Learned Hippy Ti-Yo from him; Joe says music sounded the same as white bands;
00:02:00 - Rinzler asks if he is interested in other types of music; Joe mentions Larry Brasseaux (Abbeville/Lafayette);
00:03:00 - Talks about first record player they had; Joe had some string band records; He doesn't remember much; Had a record of a dog fight;
00:05:09 - Another man asks about Segura Brothers and Leo Soileau (they start speaking french then back to english);
00:06:30 - Talk about his music career after recording;
00:07:05 - He quit after 4th of July, 1963 show in Kaplan; got an operation and lost a lot of weight;
00:08:39 - Rinzler asks if Joe ever played in Mississippi; He played in Biloxi a few times;
00:09:28 - Talks about using electric instruments; Easier to play electric, but the sound isn't as good;
00:10:08 - Talks about instruments he had in his band: accordion, drums, rhythm guitar, standard guitar, violin;
00:10:40 - Talks about when guitars became popular;
00:11:25 - Playing in Texas; Between Beaumont and Port Arthur; They talk about radio;
00:12:40 - Talks about his daughter; She didn't play music, but he taught a few other people;
00:13:25 - He saw Bob Wills in Abbeville in the 1950s; Ernest Tubb; Joe liked his record;
00:14:50 - Singing in french; They talk about drinking and playing music;
00:16:00 - Paying the band; Music as a career;
00:16:50 - Farming cotton, sweet potatoes, corn, sugarcane; Transition to the oil field; Audio cuts out;
20 October 1965; Leo Soileau; Old days with Mayeuse Lafleur and first recordings;
00:18:05 - Leo met Jimmie Davis and Bob Wills; Leo was born in Ville Platte on a farm; Highland farm: cotton, rice, potato, corn;
00:18:35 - His parents were Fabuis Soileau and Louisa Soileau; His dad played fiddle; Learned when he was 12-13 years old;
00:19:47 - Learned tunes from listening to his dad; He plays once in a while for fun; Learned how to play from records, other people;
00:20:55 - Mayeuse Manuel, a local singer; Songs didn't have any names; Valse du bambocheur; Never bought his own record;
00:22:40 - Floyd Shrive (?) and Bill Landry were on that record;
00:23:13 - He heard music at country dances/bal de maison; Recording for the first time in 1928;
00:24:35 - Took train to Atlanta to record; Cat Doucet (Sheriff in Opelousas) went with him as a manager and Mayeuse played accordion;
00:26:04 - They recorded Grand Basile, Mama Where You At?, Your Papa Put Me Out, La valse criminelle; Mayeuse died before he could hear the recordings;
00:27:00 - Mayeuse Lafleur's death; He was 22 when he died. Leo was 25 at the time;
00:27:44 - Rinzler asks if they called it cajun or french music; Amede Ardoin; Music didn't have a different name for white and black musicians;
00:29:23 - Leo's daughter; Didn't play music, spoke some french; Leo likes hillbilly music more than cajun music;
00:30:15 - Second time recording in 1930 for Decca; In 1932, he drove from Crowley to Chicago in a Model A Ford to record; Ernest Tubb recorded at Decca;
00:31:25 - Bluebird sessions in the 1930s before Decca; Never learned accordion; audio cuts out
