Interview by Michel Tisserand with Lawrence Ardoin and Chris Ardoin

Accession No.: 
TI1-007

0:58-Chris Ardoin played at Carnegie Hall in 1985 at 8

1:32-Chris Ardoin started the accordion at 3

3:05-Chris Ardoin started triple note accordion at 10

4:27-Chris Ardoin talks about his new album at the time "Lick it up"

5:30-The students in Chris Ardoin's school at the time pretented to not like zydeco but he saw them at dances on the weekend.

7:30-Chris Ardoin explains that he wanted to release his album as quickly as possible to enter the music industry

11:21-Sometimes Chris wanted to be more fluent in french like the rest of his family

11:54-Chris talks about his future

13:45-Lawrence Ardoin explain how crowds react differently and how he ajusts his setlist and playing style accordingly

21:53-Chris says he records songs everyday

23:29-Chris thinks young people are still going to like zydeco in the future

24:40-Michael TIsserand asks about the differences between the people who go to hip hop clubs and the people who go to zydeco clubs.

26:00-Tisserand talks about the book he is currently writing (The Kingdom of Zydeco)

31:15-Lawrence thniks the mixing on the last Ketih Frank album is bad

35:20-Lawrence says that all the cajun music today comes from Amede Ardoin. Lawrence does not like Iry Leujeune because he got the credit (and the copyrights) for Amede's songs. 

Media Type: 
Audio
Collection: 
tisserand
Subject: 
creole
Creator: 
michel tisserand
Informants: 
Lawrence Ardoin
Recording date: 
Friday, June 17, 2022
Publisher: 
Center for Louisiana Studies
Rights Usage: 
All rights reserved
Language: 
English
Meta Information
Duration: 
42:39
Cataloged Date: 
Friday, June 17, 2022
Digitized Date: 
Friday, June 17, 2022
Original Format: 
cassette
Digital Format: 
WAV
Bit Depth: 
24 bit
Sampling Rate: 
896 KHZ
Storage Location: 
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