SUPPORT GREAT STORYTELLING
We rely on your support to remain on air and online. Your contribution helps us bring you interviews with great American artists and the carefully curated music mix that you’ve enjoyed over the years.
Donate
AMERICAN ROUTES ON INSTAGRAM
BANJOS LOST AND FOUND: DON VAPPIE & NICKEL CREEK
An encore presentation from the American Routes archives: Since the earliest blues and minstrel tunes to clawhammer bluegrass and forward to traditional jazz and newgrass, the banjo has been a part of American music. This week we recall our visit with Creole jazzman Don Vappie and hear how the instrument is used in New Orleans traditional jazz. And feel the zeitgeist in our interview back when with San Diego-based Nickel Creek during a live set about building onto their bluegrass base and moving beyond—which they have all surely done since.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Funky Banjo Don Vappie
Banjo A La Creole, Vappielle - Gut Bucket Blues Louis Armstrong
The Complete Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings , Columbia - I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
San Antonio Rose, Bear Family - Sister Kate Lionel Ferbos with Lars Edegran's New Orleans Band
Lionel Ferbos with Lars Edegran's New Orleans Band, GHB - Shortenin' Bread Lee Dorsey
Golden Classics, Collectables - Candy Man Hot Tuna
First Pull Up, Then Pull Down, RCA - Instrumental: Tishomingo Blues Elmer Snowden Quartet featuring Cliff Jackson
Harlem Banjo!, Riverside - Candy Man Taj Mahal
Giant Step/De Ole Folks at Home, Columbia - Don't You Make Me High Blue Lu Barker
1938-1939, Classics - Salee Dame Baby Dodds Trio w/ Albert Nicholas
Jazz a la Creole: Baby Dodds Trio, GHB - SEGMENT: Don Vappie
Listen - Instrumental: Up the Lazy River Papa Don's New Orleans Jazz Band
Papa Don's New Orleans Jazz Band, Vappielle - Banjo Noir Alvin Batiste
Late, Columbia - The Banjo, Opus 15 Louis Moreau Gottschalk
American Piano Music played by Amiram Rigai, Smithsonian Folkways - Sail Away Randy Newman
The Randy Newman Songbook, Vol. 1, Nonesuch - End Bed: Rushin' to Work Don Vappie
Banjo A La Creole, Vappielle
HOUR two
- Open Bed: Stumptown Nickel Creek
American Routes original recording, - Bluetail Fly Abner Jay
Blues Routes, Smithsonian Folkways - Blue Ridge Mountain Blues Martin, Bogan & Armstrong
Martin, Bogan & Armstrong/ That Old Gang of Mine, Flying Fish - Mississippi Kid Leroy Troy
from Folk Masters 1993 Concert, - Sitting on Top of the World The Grateful Dead
The Grateful Dead, Warner Bros. - Instrumental: Cumberland Blues Pickin' on the Grateful Dead
Pickin' on the Grateful Dead, CMH - California Boogie Howlin' Wolf
Memphis Days: The Definitive Edition, Vol. 1, Bear Family - Lowside of the Road Tom Waits
Mule Variations, Anti - Step It Up and Go Warner Williams with Jay Summerour
Blues Highway, Smithsonian Folkways - Don't Let Your Deal Go Down Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs
The Essential Flatt & Scruggs: 'Tis Sweet to Be Remembered, Columbia/Legacy - McKinley's Blues Norman Blake, Tut Taylor, Sam Bush, Butch Robbins, Vassar Clements, David Hollan, Jethro Burns
Norman Blake, Tut Taylor, Sam Bush, Butch Robbins, Vassar Clements, David Hollan, Jethro Burns, HDS - Instrumental: This Ain't Grass Mike Auldridge
Dobro: Blues and Bluegrass, Takoma - California Blues Merle Haggard
Same Train, A Different Time, Capitol - California Stars Billy Bragg & Wilco
Mermaid Avenue, Elektra - SEGMENT: Nickel Creek
Listen - End Bed: Snow Camp Tony Ellis
Farewell My Home, Flying Fish
