Gumbo and Jam at Nonc Allie Young's House; Interview with Sady Courville; Musical Performance by Dennis McGee
00:00 - Valse de Jolly Roger (D.L. Menard on vocals);
04:20 - Reel Faché;
05:10 - Sady talks about Amédé Ardoin, he’d play African-American house dances with Amédé - He said that’s where he learned to second. Sady says that Amédé moved from the Eunice area to Crowley in the 30s. Amédé was well liked and respected;
07:00 - Sady talks about a wedding dance that they played together with Dennis in Oberlin in 1928. They played all night long;
07:45 - Sady saw Amédé right before he died. He was walking down the street carrying his accordion;
09:10 - First fiddle he bought was from Dennis. Sady says that Dennis knows good fiddles. He’d buy one and then sell it quickly;
09:40 - Will talks about playing a gig with Dewey Balfa, played through a mic and had trouble hearing himself. They discuss sound issues and not being able to hear their fiddles over the rest of the band;
11:30 “Amédé Ardoin was some musician.” Sady says that you could see tears coming out of his eyes sometimes when he’d sing. He took his music very seriously;
12:40 - Sady says he’d give anything to have Dennis and Amédé’s music on a cassette tape. The last time he heard them play was at Uncle Arby’s(?) house in 1929;
13:55 - They discuss dance payment amounts in the old days. They’d each make a dollar or two per night. Amédé might make a bit more;
16:45 - Dennis McGee plays a waltz (name?) - accompanied by an organist;
19:35 - Unnamed waltz;
22:45 - Irene Gotta See Big Joe - into instrumental tune that sounds like Adieu Rosa;
24:40 - Song name? Mitch Reed calls this one "Pascal’s egret";
27:00 - La valse de Coteau;
