00:00 - J’étais au bal (Traditional, arranged by Les Frères Michot)
02:28 - La Valse à Howard Hébert (R. Michot)
06:52 - Two-Step de Ste. Marie (R. Michot / B. Michot)
09:50 - Le Reel à Patrick (R. Michot)
12:08 - Une livre de tabac (Traditional, arranged by Les Frères Michot)
15:30 - Two-Step de Côte Gelée (R. Michot)
18:45 - La Danse de Mardi Gras (Traditional, arranged by Les Frères Michot)
21:22 - Two-Step de Pilette (R. Michot)
24:07 - La Valse de Platain (Traditional, arranged by Les Frères Michot)
27:39 - Breakdown de la Pointe de l’Eglise (Traditional, arranged by Les Frères Michot)
30:49 - La Valse de la Ville (R. Michot)
34:06 - Allons à la Queue de Tortue (Traditional, arranged by Les Frères Michot)
37:10 - Reprise de Mardi Gras (D. Balfa / R. Michot)
\"'You know when I was a little boy, there was this man that came, a very highly respected person in the Mamou area, called Michot. This was Louis Michot Sr., grandfather of the Michot brothers. Even though grandpa Michot wasn’t there very long, “La Marque est toujours là.” And the thing I remember that really warmed me was when all of the Michot boys came here. When we started playing, I felt like this old house of mine was alive again. This is family. This is what we used to do when my brothers were living. And I want to be part of it. Nobody realizes the power, the strength that a musical family has. It reminds me so much of when me and my brothers used to get together and have fun like that. There’s no money to buy that, baby - Heaven on earth. And there’ s no power like family power. It doesn’t matter what it is. If it’s a “coup de main” when your house burned down, you have to reroof your house, or you have to plow the lower part of the field because one has been sick or it has rained, and a brother comes with his team. There’ s no power like that in the world. The thing is the unity of family. And the unity of family also comes through music.
Music is a language that everybody understands. I don’t care where you are from. Les Frères Michot went to Poland playing their music, and the people’s attention was so tight; it was so good. Music does that. Music and family does that. There is a warmth in music. But there is also a warmth in family. You know, I could look at all of these Michots, and there is so much warmth, so much togetherness. There’s something that happens between those boys when they sing in harmony. Rodney and I were probably some of the first Cajuns that did harmony. But when the Michots do it, singing like three or four of them, it makes the little bit of hair I have left stand up. I believe that this album is really going to put out the family togetherness. There is a message, a very, very powerful message. I think that this album, in my heart, will relay this message.'
- Dewey Balfa
Les Frères Michot (The Michot Brothers) were all raised in an area of Lafayette Parish known as Pilette. The community, named for landowner Pilette Comeaux, is located between Lafayette and Broussard, and once featured a school, post office and store. When Rick and Tommy were small children the family lived in a small wooden cypress house. As the family grew they moved to a larger house in the next field, where several of the brothers still live. The five brothers were all “élevés à Pilette” (raised in Pilette). They play in the traditional “Bal de Maison” (house dance) style, using all acoustic instruments. This style was prevelant when Cajun music was first recorded, before it was influenced by the introduction of electrical amplification and drums.\"
