Dennis McGee & Sady Courville: La Valse du Vacher (Cowboy Waltz) (1983)

Date recorded: August , 1983
Contributor(s): Recordist: Lomax, Alan; Performer: Courville, Sady; Performer: McGee, Dennis
Description: Dennis McGee, vocal and fiddle, with secondeur Sady Courville, performing a tune he originally recorded (with secondeur Ernest Fruge) in 1929. Shot by Lomax and crew at McGee's home in Eunice, Louisiana, August-September 1983.
Subject(s):
Genre: waltz
Culture: Cajun
Instruments: fiddle, voice
Setting: Home of Dennis McGee
Location: Eunice, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, United States
Archive ID: 6Gf-4c02KzQ
Belongs to: Appalachia (1982–1983)
About the session: Cloggers and buck dancers; bluegrass and string bands; white gospel groups; stories, folktales, and ballads from coal miners, tobacco farmers, and former bootleggers, filmed in Virginia, Tennessee, and Kentucky. Performers include Ray Hicks, Nimrod Workman, Tommy Jarrell, and Raymond Fairchild, the man reputed to be the fastest banjo player in the world.
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