All right, we got a great weekend coming up—
big weekend coming up
First, we have the Piney Woods Trail Ride,
then starting actually Friday, we go all the way through to Sunday
in Oakdale, Louisiana
This is a party weekend, so put your dancing shoes on,
and hopefully you know the laws
What I love about the trail is it's where I grew up on
It's just me. I'd take horses over anything
I'm half-human, half-horse, sometimes, I think
Had horses all my life
We've been doing Stop-N-Watch since 2003
We started out young
Just the vibe, the rhythm, the hype that you get out of it
Just enjoying our Creole nature,
our Creole background, our Creole heritage
Here in Louisiana, we do Zydeco
'cause it's what we love doing
We were born and raised into trail rides,
so one day, out of the blue, we just decided, hey,
we're going to start our own trail ride organization,
and they have said that we have gotten about 30,000 people
We wanted to keep it for our family to keep the tradition going
We did not expect for it to grow as large as it did
People are realizing that it's not just men doing this anymore
It was me and pretty much a whole bunch of girls
that decided to get together and come up with the Kountry Bunnies
This is our own star, 'cause we like to match,
as you can see
>From back in the day, the dance cycle was two-step
Now it's like just step however you want to
Go with the music
Trust me, when you come with the Bunnies,
- you're gonna have fun - Oh, you really will
No, I can't dance. I watch
So I just grab onto 'em and I hold 'em
and I follow their movement
See more women, get more number
See more men, I leave quicker
A lot of zydeco are there,
they make a song about love
Can't break it down no simpler than that
On the trail ride, they know me as a No Tie Down Rider
When I'm dancing, I make sure people watch
When I come up with a dance move,
it's not nothing that's planned
I don't really know; it just happens
Whenever I get out of control
or like when a horse gets hot and get out of control,
she grabs the horn to kind of calm her down
"Oh, stop!" And kind of calm her down a little bit
Well, I let her think that, anyway
'cause I'm really— I'm uncontrollable
They call me Tyke; that's my nickname
When it comes down to gated horses,
there's a four-beat rhythm
It's music to my ears, at least
In a trail ride, that's what we compete for
That's pretty much what we live to hear, you know?
When you hit the trail, if there's a road off,
if there's a blacktop, you can still hear
I'm Buckwheat—Buckwheat Zydeco
In the Ils Sont Partis Band right here in southwest Louisiana
The culture, the roots—it is special
Because we have so much
and the combination with the music, the food,
the courtesy, it don't get no better than that
They call me Deezay, out here in the trail ride community
When you come out here,
it's just a sisterhood, a brotherhood
Everybody takes care of everybody,
so this fulfillment is love
The music, the bands— it keeps you pumped up
It gives you that sense of pride
If you didn't have it before, you definitely have it now
I mean, I don't know what more to say about that
We drink, we dance— I don't know
I just love it