Rosco Chenier:

00:30 - Talks about musicians in the family; Learning from them; His father, Arthur "Bud" Chenier, played accordion
-Played at house dances; Duke Stevens father, John Stevens, played fiddle with Arthur; Mention Lanor records in Church Point

02:00 - Duke Stevens was on Rosco's early recording
02:30 - Larry tells a story of meeting John Hart's backing band at a truck stop
03:35 - Talk more about John Stevens and Bud Chenier playing french music; Music was in the family
04:45 - Larry says Roy Carrier might take Duke to London with him

05:20 - There wasn't much black music on the radio back then
-A lot of his songs came from Good Rockin' Bob, Lonesome Sundown, Lightnin' Slim, Leroy Washington (His first cousin, his mom's nephew)

06:00 - All of those people recorded with J.D. Miller; Leroy died pretty young; He played with Good Rockin' Bob in Leesville Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
-He died on a Saturday night; Lil Bob was playing with Good Rockin' Bob back then; Rosco was born in 1941; He started as a singer

07:50 - Started playing with Rockin' C.D. when he was 15 in the mid-1950s; The record came out in about 1962; This was his first real band

09:10 - White Eagle Club in Opelousas - Little Richard, Ray Charles, B.B. King played there; Southern Club - Fats Domino played there; Guitar Slim
-Rosco was too young to go to the clubs; The man who ran the club, Bradford, told him he could stand there but not dance
-White Eagle (Blanchard St. - it was known as "the Hill") was a black club and Southern Club (Highway 190) was a white club

11:40 - Not as many clubs as there used to be; Rita's Continental Lounge in Opelousas
-He's been gigging on Sundays at the Charcoal Lounge in the Hill on Academy, which was owned by a man named Mason who owned hotels
-Rosco plays Franks every Thursday night; Bob's pub in Lafayette

13:00 - He hasn't had to call for a gig in two months; Turning down jobs; Did a workshop at Festival Acadien with Lil Buck, John Henry, and a few others
-Talk about Baton Rouge; Tabby's Blues Box; Rosco wants an agent to book some tours
-Larry has been started to book zydeco up north; Murphy's mother is cousins with Rosco's dad and is related to C.D. too

16:40 - J.J. Caillier record; Rosco started learning guitar to gut bucket blues; Popular back then in the area until mid-1960s
-He started playing guitar on the bandstand around 1964; He played with C.D. for 12 years

20:00 - Blues in competition with zydeco; He mostly plays at white clubs (Franks); White kids are getting into blues; Not as popular with black kids

22:50 - Talk about his band; Early 1970s; Said Clifton Chenier would play zydeco and people would laugh, but he kept playing
-Rosco wouldn't change his style for the audience; He knows at least 350 songs

25:15 - He was a teenager when he started playing guitar; His mom bought him a Kay guitar for $21; His first electric guitar was $57 ($5 a month)
27:20 - He retired from playing with C.D. 5 years ago; He was a truck driver for almost 20 years and has some back and leg injuries; So started playing music full-time

29:00 - After C.D.'s band, he played with Good Rockin' Thomas for a year and a half; After that, Good Rockin' Bob; Sometimes with Lonesome Sundown
-C.D. started being a DJ; Rosco played with C.D.'s brother Robert's band for a year; Then played with Duke Stevens for about 3 years (about 1979-1980)

31:00 - Now he plays with his own band: Wadsworth Johnson - tenor sax, Patrick Lavergne - bass, Peter Burby? - drums; Blue Angel club in Lafayette

33:00 - Talk about the old clubs he played with C.D.; Lafayette clubs: Chipped Mirror, Bon Temps Rouler, Cliff's Country Club
-Opelousas clubs: Gabriel's Lounge, Hollywood Inn Club, Southern Lounge; Frank Andrus' Bar and Lounge in Port Barre; Teenage parties, school dances

34:35 - His band started in 1980; Played for 3-4 years; Original band members started moving, so he replaced them

36:45 - Recorded a single on ?; Then recorded a single on his own label called Chenier about 6 years ago; 500 pressings; A side: You Don't Understand
-Recorded it in Eunice and Floyd Soileau pressed it; Then recorded CD in Vidrine Label; Avenue Jazz label picked him up and he's recording a new CD at Vidrine studio

41:10 - Touring overseas; Explains how he got booked overseas
43:15 - Talk about Raymond Randle and his family
45:20 - Talk more about booking
46:40 - Audio cuts out