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Interview with Horace Trahan

00:32 - First episode in the new KRVS studio
01:07 - Ossun Blues by Horace Trahan
04:11 - Interview
- Grew up in Ossun, Louisiana
- Listened to a lot of music when he was little
- Picked up the saxophone in 5th grade, and later the bass drum and quads
08:25 - High School Breakdown by Horace Trahan
10:20 - Interview
- Started playing the guitar at eleven or twelve years old
- Was into heavy metal like Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest
- Got into country music like Hank Williams Jr. and Sr. and George Jones

Interview with Francis Haymark Handy

0:45 - Interview
- Talks about upcoming benefit called Mother’s Day at the Moon
- Buckwheat Zydeco, Major Handy, L’Angelus, and Trio del Rio is on the line-up
03:49 - Lay Your Burden Down by Buckwheat Zydeco
09:00 - Interview
- Was diagnosed with Lymphoma cancer
- Talks about the process of recovery
15:30 - Give Him Cornbread by Beau Jocque and his Zydeco Hi-Rollers
20:22 - Interview
- Grew up in Lake Charles
- Moved to Lafayette in the 1970’s
- Started going to Randal’s and dancing

Interview with Dr. Barry Ancelet

01:08 - Les deux pas de festivals acadiens by Courtney Granger
04:14 - Interview
- Talks about recordings and line-up of Festivals Acadiens et Créoles 1981
- Festivals Acadiens et Créoles was made from an amalgamation of Louisiana Native Crafts Festival, Bayou Foods Festivals, and Cajun Music Festival and was modeled after NewPort Folk Festival
- First Festivals Acadiens was in the Blackham Coliseum in 1974
- By 1981, the festival was moved to Girard Park
13:55 - La Valse D’Oberlin by Bois Sec Ardoin, Freeman Fontenot, and Michael Doucet

Interview with Eric Frey

QUI-026 - Episode with Eric Frey
01:02 - Made In the Shade by the Red Stick Ramblers
03:31 - Interview
- Talks about working with Tom Krueger on a music video
- Grew up in Birmingham, Alabama
- Dad played bass
- Grew up around bluegrass music
08:20 - Drifting Too Far Away From Ashore by Ricky Skaggs
12:28 - A Vision of Mother by the Stanley Brothers
15:56 - Interview
- Grew up in Alabama
- Dad would play in bands at church
- Legend was that he was born at a festival

Interview with Drew Landry

QUI-025 - Episode with Drew Landry
01:10 - Sharecropper’s Whine by The Bandry Land
03:26 - Interview
- Born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana
- Came to Lafayette for senior year of high school
- Was drawn to singer-songwriters
- Was influenced by Townes Van Zandt, Blaze Foley, and Guy Clark
09:54 - Don’t Take It So Bad by Townes Van Zandt
12:50 - Sauget Wind by Uncle Tupelo
16:18 - Interview
- Talks about inspiration from Blaze Foley
18:56 - Anything Less by Blaze Foley
23:05 - Song to Woody by Bob Dylan

Interview with Dirk Powell

00:56 - Waterbound
04:17 - Interview
- Dirk’s grandfather is speaking at the beginning of the recording of “Waterbound”
- Talks about the distractions of technology in the way of playing music
- Mom played piano in church
- First musical love was Bach
- Started playing piano at eight years old
- Started playing folk music with his grandfather
09:05 - Moonshiner by Roscoe Holcomb
11:13 - Late in the Evening by Muddy Waters
14:22 - Interview

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