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HOME GROWN SOUL: JIMMY HUGHES AND BOOKER T. JONES
This week we visit with two masters of Southern soul. Multi-instrumentalist Booker T. Jones, along with his group the MGs, helped to create the legendary Stax sound. We talk with Booker T. about growing up in Memphis and his work with Southern rock band, the Drive-By Truckers. Soul singer Jimmy Hughes got his start at another landmark of Southern music, FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. Hughes shares stories about his classic hits “Steal Away” and “Why Not Tonight,” as well as his move from gospel to soul and back again.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Soul Limbo Booker T. & the MG's
The Complete Stax/Volt Soul SIngles 1968-1971, Stax - Soul Train Curley Moore
Wardell Quezergue: Sixty Smokin' Soul Senders, Funky Delicacies - Streamline Train Jessie Mae Hemphill
Get Right Blues, High Water - Mystery Train Little Junior's Blue Flames
The Sun Records Collection, Rhino - I'm Going Don't You Know Memphis Minnie
Hoodoo Lady: 1933-1937, Columbia - Why Don't You Do Right Eden Brent
Mississippi Number One, Yellow Dog - Instrumental: Really (Part 1) Johnny Jones & the Imperial 7
Night Train to Nashville: Music City Rhythm & Blues 1945-1970, CMF - What More Can I Do? Naomi Shelton and the Gospel Queens
What Have You Done My Brother?, Daptone - Respect Otis Redding
The Monterrey International Pop Festival, Rhino - SEGMENT: Booker T. Jones
Listen - Instrumental: Flamingo Earl Bostic
Rolling Stones: Artist's Choice, Hear Music - Drop On In Mable John
Stay Out of the Kitchen, Stax - Early in the Morning Ray Charles
The Birth of Soul, Atlantic - Why, Why, Why Jimmy Vaughan
Keep Your Soul: A Tribute to Doug Sahm, Vanguard - Further Up the Road Bobby Bland
I Pity the Fool/The Duke Recordings, vol. 1, MCA - End Bed: Time Is Tight Booker T. & the MG's
The Complete Stax/Volt Soul Singles 1968-1971, Stax
HOUR two
- Open Bed: Slim Jenkins' Place Booker T. & the MG's
The Complete Stax/Volt Soul Singles 1962-1968, Stax - Detroit City Arthur Alexander
The Greatest, Cocho - I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry Keb Mo
Hank Williams: Timeless, Lost Highway - White Freight Liner Blues Steve Earle
Townes, New West - Billy 1 Bob Dylan
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid Original Soundtrack, Columbia - Instrumental: Soul Dressing Booker T. & the MG's
The Complete Stax/Volt Soul Singles 1962-1968, Stax - SEGMENT: Jimmy Hughes
Listen - West End Blues Allen Toussaint
The Bright Mississippi, Nonesuch - Ruler of My Heart Dirty Dozen Brass Band w/ Norah Jones and Robert Randolph
Medicated Magic, Ropeadope - Everything I Do Gon' Be Funky Dirty Dozen Brass Band w/ Dr. John
Medicated Magic, Ropeadope - Instrumental: John's Ragtime John Jackson
Don't Let Your Deal Go Down, Arhoolie - Twelve Gates to the City Cephas & Wiggins
Cool Down, Alligator - Let's Come Together (As One Community) Willie King
Freedom Creek, Rooster Blues - Roamin-itus Eddie Bo
Gumbo Stew, Ace - Didn't He Ramble Kermit Ruffins
Livin' a Tremé Life, Basin Street - End Bed: Singin' the Blues Allen Toussaint
The Bright Mississippi, Nonesuch
