Canray Fontenot, Dennis McGee:

-First interests in music. Son seul oncle (frère à sa mère) il avait jouait le violon. Douglas Bellard était premier cousins avec sa mère. La tante à Douglas;
-Cigar box violins. Making each one a violin. String from screendoor wire. Wasn't loud, but made sound. The other guy went to school and became a teacher. Canray didn't go to school. Had to be good to in school to go through a grade in two years;
-Father died and he had to go to work to help support his family. The other guy went to Texas. 15 years since he's seen him. He told Canray he couldn't carry a tune;
-First violin. Uncle bought it for him if Canray would go help him work in the field. Canray was about 11 years old. Canray and that other guy started when they were 9 years old;
-Fiddle head resembled a guitar head;
-First time tuning violin. Going to see Douglas to see how to tune it. Breaking strings;
-Needing the desire to learn music;

-Accordions. Mr. Adam as well-known as Dennis McGee. Canray can play a song, but he's not interested enough to learn (5:00);
-Mother played accordion, but never played dances;
-$16 for the last accordion father bought in Rayne. That was expensive back then. Used to buy accordions for $13. Canray's brother-in-law brought Canray's father to Rayne in a Model-T.
-Father had $20;
-Passing the hat;
-Playing accordion and picking up a little extra money. Father never sang, sometimes had a triangle/fiddle player accompany him. Alphonse LaFleur a good second fiddler (white);
-Whites played for blacks, and vice versa;
-Canray playing with his daddy on table and chairs;
-Wedding dance for white people;
-Bois-sec started playing before his father died in 1938. Canray starting to play fiddle after his uncle died;

-Music changes in the 1930s. Everyone wanted hillbilly music, George Lennon, string bands (10:00);
-Playing with Bois-sec Ardoin for 40-something years. Got together in the 1940s;
-Stopped played music for 8 years and going back to play around Lake Charles for 3 years with Wilfred Latour and going back to Bois-sec. Bois-sec has his faults, but he rather Bois-sec over Latour;
-Lawrence Ardoin, Bois-sec's son, thinks he's better than what he really is. The one that died was good, and would never brag;
-Playing with Amédé Ardoin---Pineville & Death. He could sing and play well. Black people's music sounded different than white people's. Amédé (and Canray's uncle) would quit working to go play.
-Canray would usually finish his work. Seeing him in Crowley. Hurting behind his neck. Sent to Pineville because he lost his mind;

-Amédé had an older brother living in Elton (Thomas) (15:06);
-Amédé didn't recognize him. Thomas tried to play accordion, but couldn't. Amédé couldn't remember anything;
-People hated him. He played a dance in Eunice and wiped his face with a white lady's handkerchief. They beat him because the white lady did what she did;
-Amédé played in Basile at a dancehall. Guitars were rare, but one was broken;
-Amédé was a jokster;
-Amédé wrote everything he played. If an accordion played could play about 5 songs, that was a big thing;
-Dance at Canray's grandfather's big house. Amédé went play a dance for white people, Canray's daddy played one for black people. Usually, black's lasted all night;
-Canray's grandmother cooked a gumbo. Amédé came play the dance. Back then, people didn't drink in the house. White mule. Selling gumbo 10 cents a bowl;
-Amédé came take Canray's father's place playing accordion. Amédé took over the bass side from his father and then the melody side. Dancers never stopped. Amédé jouait simple. Played sitting down in that time;

-Amédé played accordion only (21:23);
-Iry LeJeune redid all of Amédé's songs;
-How Amédé learned to play music. Joe Falcon. Amédé would take two step and turn them into waltzes, and vice versa;
-Pop's superstitions about recording. Shouldn't hear dead people;
-Adam 'Kahzey' Fontenot, son père;
-Playing music until sunrise. Father got there around 12:30 AM and lady who brought two cups of coffee;

-None of Canray 6 kids can play anything (26:29);
-Canray's cousin from Lafayette played flute. Dinner in Basile at his uncle's.
-Mother couldn't understand how he could become a musician since neither parent can sing (father sings for Mardi Gras)
-Easy to know when kids'll be musicians. Almost all of his kids became musicians. Played with Isaac Hayes. Can play organ;
-Warren Ceasar. Horse kicked and he never regained his health. Stopped playing with big bands because he couldn't eat just anything (bologna, etc.);

-Traveling with Bois-sec. Started in 1966 for festivals. Only Bois-sec and Canray went to the Folklife Festival in Newport, Rhode Island. Record with Spotwood in Washington D.C. on the way back (29:13);
-People loved their music. Guy in Jennings who picked up trash for the city found a fiddle and brought it to Canray in Oberlin. Wasn't a good fiddle;
-Stopping for 8 years because he wanted a break from it. Canray gets bored with things;
-Playing with Clifton Chenier in Elton around 1969. Big election;
-Canray would play one Saturday, Clifton would play the next just accordion and scrubboard (brother played);
-Not many blacks who can play fiddle like Canray;
-Uncle had a sitter who only played blues. Lives in Texas now, never liked to hire himself out?;

-Bois-sec Ardoin (35:10);
-Son frère est meilleur joueur d'accordéon que Bois-sec, mais il a pas l'envie. Il garde pas un accordéon. Han?;
-The Carriere family from Lawtell--Bébé Carriere (violon) et Dolan (son père);
-Carrière joue le violon drôle. Comme Canray chante drôle;
-Ça me fait du mal, bassette;
-Danser avec moi/La Valse à Tante Nana?;

-La Valse de 'Tit Maurice (39:51);
-Mon Cher Bébé Créole (Reprise in different key: La Valse de Samedi Soir);

***Same as AN1-102 (timecode a few seconds different, but still very close)***

-Dennis McGee;
-Les filles de Benglaise sung (Rye Whiskey/La Valse à Mom et Pop by Shirley Ray Bergeron);
-Dennis rosining his bow and cross-tuning his fiddle;
-La Reel du Sauvage Perdu (Indian on a Stump);
-Retuning his fiddle;
-Piece of La Valse de St. Landry (La Valse de Duson/La Valse Qui Me Fait Du Mal/La Valse des Opelousas/La Valse de Stelly/Big Boy Waltz);
-Tante Aline (Viens me chercher. Similar to La Valse des Musiciens/La Valse d'Orphelin/Trop Jeune Pour Marier);

-Eunice Two-Step (50:25);
-Dennis asks if they'll have a program (Festivals Acadiens et Créoles?) this year in Lafayette and asks which month it will be;
-Valse des Frugé (Louisiana Waltz/Mon Papa by Robert Bertrand);
-Origins of Tante Aline. Aline was an old black lady;
-Interviewers getting ready to go;
***Same as AN1-016***