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Laughing It Up With Don Vappie

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This is an unofficial test from the staff of Music Inside Out. Remember, this is ONLY a test:

Question: Who's funnier? 

A. Bruce Springsteen
B. Bob Dylan
C. Laurel and Hardy
D. Don Vappie
E. I hate tests.

If you answered D (sorry, Bruce!), move to the front of the class and then settle back for a musical belly laugh. Don Vappie is a multi-instrumentalist and founder of the Creole Jazz Serenaders. He joins us for an hour of good fun. Expect performances by Laurel and Hardy, Bob Dylan and the great Vappie himself, whose many recordings include an ode to the onion.

You can't take this music and explain it without explaining the whole of life in this culture.

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Gwen Thompkins is a New Orleans native, NPR veteran and host of WWNO's Music Inside Out, where she brings to bear the knowledge and experience she amassed as senior editor of Weekend Edition, an East Africa correspondent, the holder of Nieman and Watson Fellowships, and as a longtime student of music from around the world.