Interview by Michel Tisserand with Lawrence Ardoin and Chris Ardoin
0:58-Chris Ardoin played at Carnegie Hall in 1985 at 8
1:32-Chris Ardoin started the accordion at 3
3:05-Chris Ardoin started triple note accordion at 10
4:27-Chris Ardoin talks about his new album at the time "Lick it up"
5:30-The students in Chris Ardoin's school at the time pretented to not like zydeco but he saw them at dances on the weekend.
7:30-Chris Ardoin explains that he wanted to release his album as quickly as possible to enter the music industry
11:21-Sometimes Chris wanted to be more fluent in french like the rest of his family
11:54-Chris talks about his future
13:45-Lawrence Ardoin explain how crowds react differently and how he ajusts his setlist and playing style accordingly
21:53-Chris says he records songs everyday
23:29-Chris thinks young people are still going to like zydeco in the future
24:40-Michael TIsserand asks about the differences between the people who go to hip hop clubs and the people who go to zydeco clubs.
26:00-Tisserand talks about the book he is currently writing (The Kingdom of Zydeco)
31:15-Lawrence thniks the mixing on the last Ketih Frank album is bad
35:20-Lawrence says that all the cajun music today comes from Amede Ardoin. Lawrence does not like Iry Leujeune because he got the credit (and the copyrights) for Amede's songs.
