Interviews with Adolis "Dol" Roger Montoucet, Ruby Thibodeaux, Canray Fontenot et al.
Interviews with Adolis "Dol" Roger Montoucet et al:
0:00 - Eva Arceneaux and Adolis "Dol" Roger Montoucet talk about farming, working in the fields
1:00 - Adolis "Dol" Roger Montoucet sings "Rockabye baby" and "Fais do do bébé"
1:50 - Ruby Thibodeaux talks about farming as a child, raising sugar cane
3:40 - Adolis "Dol" Roger Montoucet talks about growing up in a strict household, cleaning the house on Saturday afternoons
4:50 - Adolis "Dol" Roger Montoucet talks about going to house dances
5:30 - Adolis "Dol" Roger Montoucet talks about her parents' deaths
6:15 - Adolis "Dol" Roger Montoucet talks about her sister being thrown out of the house
8:00 - Adolis "Dol" Roger Montoucet talks about meeting her husband, Don Montoucet
9:00 - Alan Lomax talks about themes in Cajun music
10:00 - Adolis "Dol" Roger Montoucet talks about and sings "La danse à Jim Olivier"
13:00 - Adolis "Dol" Roger Montoucet talks about chores, taking care of animals, learning how to cook from her mother
14:30 - Eva Arceneaux talks about cooking
15:30 - Adolis "Dol" Roger Montoucet explains how to make a jamblaya
16:50 - Adolis "Dol" Roger Montoucet talks about making a dressing from rabbits
17:10 - Ruby Thibodeaux talks about going to dances with her family, her parents passing away during a tornado in 1957
20:05 - Adolis "Dol" Roger Montoucet talks about baking bread every night, washing clothes with a washboard, doing household chores
23:00 - Adolis "Dol" Roger Montoucet talks about giving birth at home
24:00 - Adolis "Dol" Roger Montoucet talks about women's vs. men's roles in a family
25:56 - Canray Fontenot talks about Nathan Abshire learning to play accordion, her cousin's son playing with Clifton Chenier
27:50 - Canray Fontenot talks about his parents playing accordion
28:30 - Canray Fontenot talks about Douglas Bellard
29:00 - Canray Fontenot talks about making a fiddle out of a cigar box, learning how to play the fiddle
31:40 - Canray Fontenot shows the fiddle he made from a cigar box when he was seven years old, playing dances with his father
32:30 - Canray Fontenot talks about working in the field
33:30 - Canray Fontenot talks about being in a C.C. Camp
34:00 - Canray Fontenot talks about his Native American ancestry
35:00 - Canray Fontenot talks about his father playing with Amédé Ardoin
36:15 - Canray Fontenot talks about Amédé Ardoin playing at boucheries and dances
40:00 - Canray Fontenot talks about Amédé Ardoin having trouble at white dances, how he died
43:45 - Canray Fontenot talks about Amédé Ardoin playing at a dance hall in Basile, writing songs
45:50 - Canray Fontenot talks about how people would protect Amédé Ardoin while he played
46:40 - Canray Fontenot talks about house dances at his grandfather's house
48:25 - Canray Fontenot talks about Amédé Ardoin's death in Pineville
50:15 - Canray Fontenot talks about "La Valse de 99 ans" and "Eunice Two Step"
51:00 - Canray Fontenot talks about Iry Lejeune and other Cajun musicians imitating Amédé Ardoin's music
54:10 - Canray Fontenot plays "Choupique Two Step"
55:50 - Canray Fontenot demonstrates how black musicians play "Eunice Two Step"
57:45 - Canray Fontenot demonstrates how white musicians play "Eunice Two Step"
58:45 - Canray Fontenot plays "Eunice Two Step"
59:45 - Canray Fontenot talks about triangle playing, his father's triangle, spoon playing
1:03:00 - Alan Lomax talks about percussion in African music and Haitian voodoo ceremonies
1:04:35 - Canray Fontenot talks about Sydney Babineaux of Rayne, rubboard music
1:06:58 - Canray Fontenot talks about his father running Mardi Gras
1:08:00 - Canray Fontenot talks about house dances, using a handkerchief to dance with a woman, being chaperoned
1:11:30 - Canray Fontenot talks about fighting in dance halls, house dances
1:16:15 - Canray Fontenot talks about Mardi Gras, fighting at courirs
1:21:00 - Canray Fontenot talks about his father playing square dances, plays "The Arkansas Traveler"
1:22:00 - Canray Fontenot plays "Johnny Can't Dance"
1:23:00 - Canray Fontenot talks about his father sharecropping, farming, not being allowed to sing or whistle in the fields
1:27:00 - Canray Fontenot talks about relations between white people and black people, segregation, voting rights
1:31:00 - Canray Fontenot tells a story about a group of back men being thrown out of a white church in Basile
1:33:30 - Canray Fontenot talks about his parents speaking French, being punished for speaking French, raising his children in French
1:38:00 - Canray Fontenot talks about and plays "Bonsoir Moreau"
