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When did you start playing the accordion? I was about eight years old. Really? Eight years old. My dad used to have a card. I was stealing from my head. My dad and go to the bone and play until I was dark. Now. Bring it back to

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the heart. He lets you play it or you just snuck it away. No, he didn't want me to play. But what was his name? Francis. Francis Roger. Was he a good player too? Yeah, he did. He make any records? No. No, he would just play for

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a party or something like that. You never played that? Well, when did you start playing dances? I was about 21 years old when I started bringing up. Were you married at the time? I was married. I married, I was 17 years and a half. Oh, really?

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And you married Bernice? No, I married Eunice long here. Really? When did you marry Bernice? About 18 years ago? Oh, really? That's, you knew what you knew your young life? Oh, yeah. Well, uh, what, like when you first started playing, who was your band? Which was

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it, the one with, uh, oh, that was a long time ago. I was three piece band. Me. No, 3 May and Phoenix Richard and I, it was three in the back. Like, I wonder, what, what year would that have been about? When was that? About 19?

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What, what year? That's a long time ago. There was about, but 25 years old and I'm 67 now. Yeah. All right. Well, that was a big time in Cajun music though. That was a good time to be playing 44 years ago. Who, what other groups were

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playing at that time? Like when you were playing, what other groups would be playing? Dances when you had your dances, there'd be ad, uh, where they have, uh, me, there was a ***. Did you know him? Yeah, we know him like that was good. I was

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pretty good. You and, uh, Joe Falcon, I figured they were playing mid brew. Uh, all the greatest. I tell you. I know Lawrence Walker. He was playing that early too. That's about all. That's a lot. And then what happened? Did you go? Did you go? Were

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you in the war? Our religion? No. No. Well, I'll go this way. Ok. So then would you go off and did you go to the war and stop playing, or what did you go away for the war? You stayed home? You kept playing? Did you keep

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playing? So, you've been playing ever since then? That's why your band was. So what, what are your favorite songs you record? Do you have any favorite? Hits Me, John? Can I love that too? That was a great, did you ever, did you ever write any songs

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yourself? No, no, you never made up any words. But I mean, in your mind, you know, sing them, you never sung any words. Three song. I don't like, you don't sing much. Huh? Johnny said he made up a song for you all one word for you.

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And who else made up your songs or the um person? I say this Chanson Patois. Johnny a kill. I don't believe nobody else make a song for me. You just write them or the French song. I made it, you just record songs you heard and, and

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Johnny Adam make this song for me. So it's mostly like traditional songs that Johnny wrote a few. The original, what does that mean that somebody made him up JD? I mean, did that have another name or is it just called

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the Channel two? And uh Johnny K Dan and uh uh Mardi Gras dad, that's me. And Roy Roy asked me to give him a name. The jig, the jig. Uh huh. That's beautiful. That's what Mark always said. He always said, he said Elvis Roger did that.

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He said it's the best version of that song ever put out. He always told me this. There's some good ones. What other stuff should we ask him about his career. We gotta ask him that the club that they, with no, on exam. The club at play

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at Timorese Roule in Lafayette. Way between and Lafayette. Yeah, you had a song. The Midway. Um, didn't you have a song? The Midway something? It's really pretty. What was that song on your record? I thought you had a song. The Midway. They do something on the

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side. Uh, I went there one night and I saw the Belvedere and Bernice. It's not on the main, and the four roads is on the main drive but you take a side street and at that time it was bra and there's a club. But back there

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big club that he played one night. Oh, no, he played a lot. I went there one night. I beat, beat their r year or the year ball and I play the ball and I played the, and cap at the Camels Hall. Cuss hall. Cameras. Hall, the

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camera. Uh huh. Never heard of the s one I didn't hear, uh, what was that one called? That, that we went to today? Os T oh, you said that in the picture? Yeah. We, we used to play there one Saturday and, and once you,

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no, I was, he was retired. I was retired and I was sick. Uh huh. And, uh, she was, feel like doing so all I didn't do. That's right. We like to do our projects too. So that you did that as your, uh, daytime job and you

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play music at night. Yeah. I will work every day and play the music every night, every night. I always play Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday and Saturday and Sunday afternoon. How many, how many Children did you have? Three? What are their names? Joseph Flower and

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Charles William and Nelda Marie. And where are they living now? I've got twin Lafayette and the one you are very, I'm sure. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. The luck of that, I guess so. Oh, yeah. Oh, my God.