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
INTERVIEW: Don Vappie
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 (Fantasie grotesque) 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
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 Holland, Jethro Burns
Norman Blake, Tut Taylor, Sam Bush, Butch Robbins, Vassar Clements, David Holland, 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
INTERVIEW: Nickel Creek
End Bed: Snow Camp Tony Ellis
Farewell My Home, Flying Fish