Down Home Cajun Music- Chuck Guillory : 1948-1987 Recordings

Murphy "Chuck" Guillory was one of Evangeline Parishes most popular Cajun string band fiddlers of the 1950s. He recorded early on in 1948 for Colonial and Modern before recording J.D. Miller's Feature label in 1950.  After the breakup of Harry Choates' Melody Boys, Guillory attracted two of his biggest sidemen in the industry,  Curzy "Porkchop" Roy and steel guitar player Julius "Papa Cairo" Lamperez.  His early group featured Preston Manuel as well.  He retired in 1958, stopped recording and went into the grocery business in Mamou for many years. In the 1980's he reformed the group and recorded for the Arhoolie label. This episode features some  of those great recordings.

Tolan waltz- (Colonial 101) 1948
Big Texas(Grand Texas)-(Modern 20-612) 1948
Chere petite- (Modern 20-612) 1948
Oakdale waltz- (Feature F1014) 1950
Walfus Two Step- (Feature F1014) 1950
Chuck’s Waltz- (Feature F1015) 1950
Teiyut Two Step- (Feature F1015) 1950
T.R. Two Step- (ARH 5039) 1982
The Last Waltz- (ARH 5039) 1987

*The first 7 tracks are from the original 78 rpm records, the last two are from Arhoolie Lp's.