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What I really have issues with is that you have these certain crowds that tell you, oh, you’re playing

too fast. No. You just don’t know what you’re doing. How are you going to tell me I’m playing too
fast? I grew up in this music and you just started listening to this music five years ago? I’ve been
into it over 40 years now. It really doesn’t make sense and you have certain bands who have
accommodated these certain people who call themselves Zydeco dancers or Zydeco dance lessons. I
don’t accommodate them because if you’re coming to my show, you’re coming to hear a Zydeco

band. It’s like if you went to hear B.B. King, some things he played were the blues. Some things he
played were a little funky, but you went to hear B.B. King’s music because he knew what he was
doing. I think it’s just an insult when people come up to me or my brothers or people like
Buckwheat years ago, and they would say his music is too fast. No. He’s playing Zydeco music. You
just don’t know how to dance to it, that’s all. Zydeco dancing
is nothing but jitterbugging. That’s all it is.

BiTS: [Laughing] I love that, Dwayne. Thank you for that.
Nevertheless, you still felt like including a Guitar Slim/ Stevie
Ray Vaughan tune on it. ‘The Things I Used To Do’. Why is
that?

DD: My father was friends with Guitar Slim and that old
Guitar Slim song back from the 60s - old blues, and they

were friends and that’s something that my father always
played at his shows and even recorded. When I got together
and I told my brothers about it we thought it would have been
a good idea to record that song and do it as a tribute to him
because that was one of his favourite songs - ‘The Things I
Used To Do’, and I think it really came out well.

BiTS: How old were you, Dwayne when you first went on the
road with the band?

DD: When I first went on the road with my band, I was 20
years old.

BiTS: And you are what age now?

DD: I’m 21. [Laughing] No. I’m 42.

BiTS: Okay, so you’ve been doing it for a long, long time. Has it got any easier? You’re obviously a

man who does a lot of working out. Judging from your physique, I would guess you probably work
out every day. Is that right?

DD: No. I’ve never been to the gym. I don’t lift weights. I’ve always just lifted my accordion and
that’s it.

BiTS: You surprise me because you’ve got a physique like a lineman.

DD: Yes, a lot of people think that I go to the gym, but no. I do yard work when I’m home and I just

play my accordion, but I’ve been playing accordion the way I have for 30 plus years. I guess that
built me up and years ago, I used to play in the French Quarter in New Orleans, and I used to play at
this club, and we played four or five hours, like six hours a day. That’s a lot of playing. I guess it
built me up over the years. But no. I’ve never been to a gym, and I tell that to people, and they don’t
believe me, but no. I’ve never been to a gym.