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Recording New Orleans: Basin Street Records with Jon Cleary & Kermit Ruffins Recording New Orleans: Basin Street Records with Jon Cleary & Kermit Ruffins July 6th, 2022 (Hour 1)
Recording New Orleans: Basin Street Records with Jon Cleary & Kermit Ruffins

New Orleans’ own Basin Street Records is a homegrown record label featuring superstars of the local sound like the Rebirth Brass Band, Davell Crawford, Jason Marsalis and Kermit Ruffins. The label got its start with a live recording of Kermit’s band at the Uptown club Tipitina’s in 1997. Now, over two decades later and several Grammy Awards under its belt, Basin Street Records still holds true to the sounds of New Orleans. We talk with Basin Street founder Mark Samuels about the label’s history. We listen in on the artists who call it home, including Jon Cleary, whose “Quarantini Sessions” streamed live from his Funk Headquarters in the 9th Ward and helped us get through these challenging times. Then, a live concert and conversation with Kermit Ruffins & the Barbecue Swingers from Esplanade Studios in the Historic Treme neighborhood of New Orleans.

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AMERICAN ROUTES LIVE ON NEW YEAR'S

December 31st, 2008

Ring in the new year with some of our favorite live music. We’ll have a set from New Orleans’ trumpet player, Kermit Ruffins with an all-star Crescent City band featuring vocalist Thais Clark. Lafayette, Louisiana’s Pine Leaf Boys bring rock and roll energy to their own version of traditional Cajun music. Step into a holiday soiree of reels, jigs and waltzes by French fiddlers in Westbrook, Maine. And pull up a set for a club set from singer and banjo player Don Vappie and the Creole Jazz Serenaders. It’s a festive set of live music that will keep you swinging well into 2009.

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  • Listen to Hour Two

HOUR ONE

  • Les Ognons Don Vappie and His Creole Jazz Serenaders
    live at Dakota Club,
  • Dinah Don Vappie and His Creole Jazz Serenaders
    live at Dakota Club,
  • Creole Blues / Tin Roof Blues Don Vappie and His Creole Jazz Serenaders
    live at Dakota Club,
  • Instrumental: Sweet Georgia Brown Don Vappie and His Creole Jazz Serenaders
    live at Dakota Club,
  • INTERVIEW: Don Vappie
  • Look at Me Don Vappie and His Creole Jazz Serenaders
    live at Dakota Club,
  • Salee Dame Don Vappie and His Creole Jazz Serenaders
    live at Dakota Club,
  • Stella By Starlight Don Vappie and His Creole Jazz Serenaders
    live at Dakota Club,
  • Mon Coeur Fait Mal Pine Leaf Boys
    live at Fitzgerald Theater,
  • J'ai Perdu Ma Chance Pine Leaf Boys
    live at Fitzgerald Theater,
  • INTERVIEW: Pine Leaf Boys
  • Ma Petit Femme Pine Leaf Boys
    live at Fitzgerald Theater,
  • Pine Leaf Boys Two-Step Pine Leaf Boys
    live at Fitzgerald Theater,
  • End Bed: piano medley David Torkanowsky
    live at Fitzgerald Theater,

HOUR two

  • St. Ann's Reel French fiddle party in Maine
  • SEGMENT: French fiddle party in Westbrook, Maine with interviews with Ben Guillamette, Jeannette Jarry and Lucien Mathieu
  • Golden Slippers / Redwing French fiddle party in Westbrook, Maine
  • La Ronfleuse Gobeil (The Snoring Miss Gobeil) French fiddle party in Westbrook, Maine
  • Instrumental: piano medley David Torkanowsky
    live at Fitzgerald Theater,
  • Struttin' with Some BBQ Kermit Ruffins and BBQ Swingers
    live at Fitzgerald Theater,
  • Basin Street Blues Kermit Ruffins and BBQ Swingers
    live at Fitzgerald Theater,
  • INTERVIEW: Kermit Ruffins and Trombone Shorty
  • Paper Moon Kermit Ruffins and BBQ Swingers
    live at Fitzgerald Theater,
  • Ain't Misbehavin' Kermit Ruffins and BBQ Swingers
    live at Fitzgerald Theater,
  • Instrumental: Caldonia Kermit Ruffins and BBQ Swingers
    live at Fitzgerald Theater,
  • Sweet Georgia Brown Kermit Ruffins and BBQ Swingers featuring Thais Clark
    live at Fitzgerald Theater,
  • INTERVIEW: Thais Clark
  • Wild Women Don't Get the Blues Kermit Ruffins and BBQ Swingers featuring Thais Clark
    live at Fitzgerald Theater,
  • Down by the Riverside / When The Saints Go Marching In Kermit Ruffins and BBQ Swingers featuring the Pine Leaf Boys
    live at Fitzgerald Theater,
  • End Bed: Basin Street Blues Henry Butler
    American Routes original recording,

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