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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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BANJOS LOST AND FOUND: DON VAPPIE & NICKEL CREEK

April 6th, 2016

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.

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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

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  • 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

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  • End Bed: Snow Camp Tony Ellis
    Farewell My Home, Flying Fish

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