Varise Connor (Violin), Lionel Leleux (Violin), Michael Doucet (Violin), Eric & Edgar Benoit (Guitar)

0:00 - 'J'ai été au bal in D'
1:47 - 'Reno Waltz'
-J'ai passé devant ta porte

7:42 - Grand Mamou
-Grand Basile

11:34 - J.B. Fuselier played accordion and fiddle. Moved to Lake Arthur to play with Varise and Murphy (Varise's youngest brother) for about 3 years
-Death of Iry LeJeune. Varise never played with Iry. He played with J.B. on accordion and brother Murphy on guitar
-Weren't guaranteed pay, maybe would get 50% of door during the Depression
-Varise got tired of it and quit playing around 1930s. Crowd would come, but they didn't have the money to get in
-Then J.B. left to play with Iry after that
-J.B. Fuselier reunion after 40 years
-Andy was in the hospital and Varise decide to look him up in the phone book, call him and go visit him
-He was standing outside at the road waiting for Varise and they hugged
-He didn't play anymore and showed Varise his garden. He then told Varise he had an accordion and a fiddle inside
-J.B. was never ashamed to be on the bandstand with Varise

14:48 - String Band music. Oldest brother played bass ("bull fiddle"), youngest brother played guitar
-Varise played fiddle, first cousin played second fiddle (no harmonies, just behind)
-Joe Falcon's first record. Everybody wanted to play accordion after that
-Changed some of the music, wasn't the old fiddle music like before
-Limitations of the accordion. 10 keys/actually 20 notes. Everything sounds almost alike after 2 or 3 tunes
-Like a banjo. So many more chords on violin, C, D, G, A chords makes all the difference
-Varise does like a good accordion player like Nathan Abshire. Nathan was raised in Riceville, Varise doesn't recall playing with him
-Amédé Breaux's brother and sister. Ophé and Cleoma Breaux
-He wanted Varise to come take his place so he could go dance with a pretty woman

18:40 - Varise Connor's aunt changed religion and didn't believe in music
-They hadn't seen her in years, and one day she came home and said that it was a shame that Varise, his brother, and his father didn't play church hymns
-What they played was a sin because it's a dance music. What goes on in a man's mind when he's holding a pretty girl in his arms. Made his father laugh
-Might be a sin, but Varise won't ever change his style of playing
-Difference between string band and accordion music. Grand Mamou and Grand Basile for the accordion. Diesel?

Fiddle tunes:
-'Chère joues roses'
-'Chère bassette' (starts on turn)
-J.B. had 2 wives and named a song after each one, 'Chère bassette' and 'Chère bouclette'