Interviews with Michael Doucet et al:

0:00 (Tapes 1387 - 1390) - The Hackberry Ramblers play "Une piastre ici, une piastre là-bas"
2:30 - Alan Lomax talks about passing down folk music from master to student
4:00 - Michael Doucet talks about how Beausoleil started and learning to play music from Canray Fontenot, Dennis McGee, Varise Conner and the Balfa Brothers
8:30 - Michael Doucet talks about his family history, his family playing music
9:50 - Michael Doucet plays "La reel des Deshotel" / "Deshotels Reel"
12:08 - Michael Doucet plays "Two-Step De Grand Mallet"
14:25 - Michael Doucet sings "Quand j'étais vaillant" a capella
16:55 - Michael Doucet talks about the 1930s Lomax recordings in Louisiana, Irene Whitfield Holmes
17:55 - Michael Doucet plays "Belle" / "La Valse à deux temps" / "Blues à Morse"
19:50 - Michael Doucet talks about Beausoleil's style
20:50 - Michael Doucet plays "Belle" / "La Valse à deux temps" / "Blues à Morse"

23:00 - The Hackberry Ramblers talk about playing in dance halls
27:00 - Ed Duhon talks about the meaning of the phrase "fais do do"
28:40 - The Hackberry Ramblers talk about violence in dance halls
29:40 - Ed Duhon talks about "Gabriel's Waltz" / Les maringouins ont tout mangé ma belle"
30:15 - The Hackberry Ramblers play "Gabriel's Waltz" / Les maringouins ont tout mangé ma belle"
32:10 - The Hackberry Ramblers play "Gabriel's Waltz" / Les maringouins ont tout mangé ma belle"
34:10 - The Hackberry Ramblers play "The Pipeline Blues"
36:40 - The Hackberry Ramblers play "The Pipeline Blues"
38:50 - Ed Duhon talks about working in the oilfield
45:00 - Ed Duhon talks about how the oilfield industry changed Louisiana, working as the chief of police in Westlake
46:55 - Luderin Darbonne talks about working as a pumper in the oilfield, his father's death in the oilfield, going to business school, working as a bookkeeper
47:45 - Crawford Vincent talks about working as a cook and a barber
49:00 - The Hackberry Ramblers play "T'es petite, t'es mignonne"
54:40 - The Hackberry Ramblers play "Bury Me In A Corner Of The Yard" / "Enterre-moi dans le coin de la cour"

55:55 - Luderin Darbone talks about the way Cajun music is evolving, Zydeco music
56:30 - Ed Duhon and talks about French speakers in the Lake Charles area, French immersion in schools
58:00 - Luderin Darbone talks about growing up speaking French, his mother forbidding him from speaking French so he wouldn't get punished at school
59:10 - Ed Duhon talks about growing up speaking French
59:55 - Luderin Darbone talks about the meaning of the word "Cajun," his Irish family from Evangeline and Opelousas, growing up speaking French, learning to speak English
1:01:15 - Ed Duhon talks about growing up speaking French, learning to speak English at school, growing up on a farm
1:03:00 (Tape 1391 - 1392) - Alan Lomax talks about the Houma Indians in Dulac, Louisiana
1:05:20 - Lawrence Billiot talks about fishing, trapping and hunting
1:06:55 - Lawrence Billiot talks about working as a cane cutter, learning to build boats from a friend, his children
1:08:30 - Lawrence Billiot talks about the Houma community speaking French, his upbringing, repairing boats
1:12:00 - Footage of boats

1:15:00 - Footage of Lawrence Billiot cast net fishing
1:16:55 - Footage of boats in construction, Lawrence Billiot working on a boat
1:20:00 - Lawrence Billiot talks about the process of boat building
1:22:45 - Lawrence Billiot talks about building pirogues
1:23:50 - Lawrence Billiot talks alligator hunting, alligators making tunnels
1:29:00 - Lawrence Billiot speaking French with a family of shrimpers
1:32:00 - footage of Marie Dean palmetto weaving

1:33:00 - Marie Dean talks about her family growing up, her children
1:34:00 - Marie Dean talks about learning to weave palmetto from her mother,
1:35:00 - Marie Dean talks about making Spanish moss dolls
1:37:00 - Marie Dean talks about her husband working as a fisherman
1:38:30 - Lawrence Billiot shows a portrait of his parents and talks about his family
1:40:00 - Footage of Marie Dean's Christmas ornaments
1:40:45 - Alan Lomax interviews a man about shrimping and oyster fishing