Tape has some issues - mold and splices
Sheryl Cormier - Accordion and Vocals;
Russell Cormier - Scrubboard and Vocals;
Gerald Broussard - Bass;
Ronnie Viguerie - Lead Guitar;
Benny Goodwin - Drums;
Date and Location unknown. Tape has a few odd splices;
Sheryl Cormier - Accordion and vocals;
Russell Cormier - Vocals;
Russell Cormier, Jr. - Drums
Isaac Miller - Steely Guitar and Vocals;
Chad Cormier - Fiddle
0:27-When Sean grew up (in the 1970s), there were no radio stations playing zydeco music. Some Cajun radio stations played Clifton Chenier once in a while.
1:36-Lawrence Ardoin (Sean's father) played music with the family band (the Ardoin Brothers).
2:31-Sean started music by playing drums.
3:10-Lawrence Ardoin made between 600 and 1000 dollars per gigs in the 1980.
4:14-Creole music was called French Dance or Lala
6:37-His father did not encourage him to play music
Sean Ardoin and his sister Erika Ardoin are talking about zydeco dances and creole culture
4:08-Sean Ardoin, talks about timing in Cajun and Zydeco dances.
6:50-Sean Ardoin talks about dancing, he gives advices to michael tisserand and explain how a zydeco dance works.
White people are welcome to zydeco dances. Nevertheless, black people are not welcome at Cajun Dances, Sean and his Sister get stared at and feel like intruders.
0:15-The Ardoin brothers started a band in 1966 when morris came back from Mississipi. They got together to increase their chances to all suceed in music without their father (Bois Sec). They played in Lake Charles, Lafayette and New Orleans. They named themselves the Ardoin Brothers aftert the Balfa Brothers. Morris talks about the formation of the band.
Morris Ardoin was the oldest son of Bois Sec and Lawrence Ardoin's brother.
In this interview he talks about his childhood, his family and the mardis gras celebrations.
0:46-The interview took place the day after the Centennial Olympic Park bombing
Morris Ardoin worked in a farm where he felt exploited by his boss, he struggled to feed his family.
12:40-Morris Ardoin's father (bois sec) worked in the cotton field.
17:40-He had five brother and nine sisters
18:19-Morris opened a music club, called the cowboy club
Milton Ardoin was Amede Ardoin's nephew
5:26-His father was Beaudoin Ardoin, he sang with Amede Ardoin
6:58:-Milton Ardoin explains Michael tisserands about the song "Mon bon vieux mari"
11:26-Milton Ardoin talks about Amede's death.
12:21-Milton was 20 when Amede died
12:36-Milton explain that 2 people were hired to kill Amede (Richard Miller and Elias Deville, they beat him up and rolled over his head with their car close to Eunice (besides the "john deer place")
23:00-Amede played music at Milton's house, he played solo most of the time
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
0:00-Lawrence Ardoin talks about his accordions and the technical issues he had during tours/recording sessions
6:54-Lawrence Ardoin talks about playing music when he was growing up and his childhood in duralde.
7.40-Lawrence did not hear good things about Amede when he was growing up
8:15-Lawrence calls Canray Fontenot's father Adam Acaze instead of Adam Fontenot
10:38-Lawrence played fiddle with his father (bois sec) when he was eleven but he did not like it. He stopped fiddle after Canray Fontenot quit performing.
0:30-Chris and his brother Sean Ardoin are often working together, they are used to write songs togeteher. Sean has reggae and rock influences, whereas Chris has rap and rnb inflences.
0.50-Chris Ardoin talks about his new album, he is especially proud of the song Beauty in your Eyes, Gon be Jus Fine and Lake Charles connection.
10:37-Chris Ardoin was 16 at the time of the interview, he wanted to go to college and keep playing music at the same time.
12:26-Sean was 28 at the time of the interview.
