Lionel Leleux:
0:00 - Playing with Don Montoucet after Lawrence Walker died in 1973
-Lionel (fiddle), Jr. Benoit (guitar), Don Montoucet (accordion), Simon Schexnyder (drums)
-Don was a bus driver and mechanic and his father, Jacques, played as well
-Lionel had the most fun since playing with Lawrence. Don had to quit because of his health
-learning to play violin by ear; What is a musician?
Conversation for Archives of Indiana University with Lionel Leleux:
0:00 - From Leleux, LA 10 miles south of Crowley on Hwy 13, description of musical development
-First getting interested in the fiddle, first violin from Sears and Roebuck in 1924 for $4 and something
-Bascom Mouton music in 1923, untitled Bascom Mouton waltz
Don Montoucet (Accordion); Lionel Leleux (Violin); unknown guitar player and vocalist
0:00 - Don and Lionel messing around with the "Drunkard's Waltz"
0:56 - La dernière valse
4:46 - Les flammes d'enfer
***Only month and year were included in original notes, no specific day***
Don Montoucet (Accordion); Lionel Leleux (Violin); Barry Ancelet (Guitar?)
0:00 - Je peux pas t'oublier (Lionel doesn't think it's "La petite fille du village") (fragment)
-La valse de Reno (Lionel starts in on fiddle. Barry practices singing it. Lionel keeps on playing it)
3:48 - La valse de Reno (reprise with accordion)
7:31 - Lacassine Special
-Request for "Joe Turner Blues". Someone missed the first session
9:03 - La valse du Grand Chemin. Don calls it "La Valse à Hubert [Maitre]"
Don Montoucet (Accordion); the Wandering Aces; Lionel Leleux (Violin); Sammy Boudreaux (Drums); Hubert Maitre (Rhythm guitar and Vocals); unknown steel guitar player (Melvin Sonnier?)
0:00 - Allons à Lafayette (for Barry)
5:24 - Jolie blonde (La fille de la veuve/Ma blonde est partie) (for people from Québec, Canada)
10:06 - Bayou Pon Pon
15:02 - Chère Alice
19:29 - La valse d'orphelin (La valse de musicien/Trop jeune pour te marier)
22:14 - Lake Arthur Stomp
Don Montoucet (Accordion); The Wandering Aces; Lionel Leleux (Violin); Sammy Boudreaux (Drums); Hubert Maitre (Rhythm guitar); unknown steel guitar player (Melvin Sonnier?); unknown vocalist
0:00 - Don talking to friends from Canada and France in the audience
0:52 - Le hack à Moreau
-Don messing around on accordion
-Lionel messing around on fiddle
7:59 - Creole Stomp
11:21 - Creole Stomp reprise. Lionel starts it on the fiddle
-Hubert announces there is a request for "Dans le cœur de la ville" and that it'll be the last song
Don Montoucet (Accordion) & the Wandering Aces; Lionel Leleux (Violin); Sammy Boudreaux (Drums); Hubert Maitre (Guitar & Vocals); Unknown steel guitar player (Melvin Sonnier?)
0:00 - Evangeline Special (for Horace Guilbeau)
5:08 - Evangeline Special reprise
7:25 - The Wild Side of Life
8:09 - La valse des Cherokees (for people from Québec, Canada)
13:13 - Pauvre hobo
18:35 - Let's Rock and Roll (fragment)
19:19 - La valse de tout le monde (for Mr. Moreau)
24:11 - J'ai été au bal (for Keith & Mary Granger)
Duhon Family House Party (Musique à trois violons): Dewey Balfa (Fiddle), U. J. Meaux (Fiddle), Hector Duhon (Fiddle), R. L. Duhon (Guitar)
0:00 - Allons à Lafayette in D
1:44 - Petit Maurice / 'Tit Maurice
3:35 - Perrodin Two-Step; Allen (Touchet?) good second fiddler according to Dewey
5:43 - Tous les soirs
7:12 - Tous les soirs (reprise with key change). Dewey thought it was originally a Cajun tune, he didn't know it was a country song; Diggy Liggy Lo? (fragment)
8:59 - J'ai passé devant ta porte
Duhon Family House Party: Hector Duhon (Fiddle), Octa Clark (Accordion), Dewey Balfa (Fiddle), Bessyl Duhon (Guitar), R.L. Duhon (Guitar), U.J. Meaux (Fiddle), Michael Doucet (Triangle)
Bois Sec Ardoin, Canray Fontenot, Ardoin Family Band:
0:00 - La robe barrée
3:09 - Le chicot à Bois Sec
6:31 - La valse de la Grande Prairie (fragment)
7:29 - Two-Step de Eunice
10:48 - Les bars de la prison
14:37 - La valse d'Oberlin
18:47 - Bernadette
22:51 - Les blues de Bosco
26:37 - Tu peux cogner mais tu peux pas rentrer
***Only year was included in original notes, no specific month or day***
