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Home Grown Soul: Jimmy Hughes and Booker T. Jones Home Grown Soul: Jimmy Hughes and Booker T. Jones February 1st, 2023 (Hour 1)
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.

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PONDEROSA STOMP & AMERICANA SWAMP

October 4th, 2017

New Orleans’ Ponderosa Stomp has presented the “unsung heroes of American music” for well over a decade in blues, soul, country, rockabilly and garage rock. Stomp impresario Dr. Ike shares his memories of pioneering the raucous, eclectic gathering, and we visit with this year’s headliner, R&B guitar-woman— aka the Black Female Elvis—Barbara Lynn from Beaumont, TX. We’ll also hear from previous headliner, Arizona Twangmaster Duane Eddy. We’re spinning tracks from Stomp artists including Gary U.S. Bonds, Lazy Lester and Linda Gail Lewis. In Hour 2, we’ll hear tunes from swamped areas of the Texas Gulf Coast by Stevie Ray Vaughn, Lightnin’ Hopkins, and Rodney Crowell, as the region grapples with water as both a source and destroyer of life as we know it.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Ponderosa Stomp Lazy Lester
    House Rockin' and Hip Shakin', Vol. 4: Bayou Blues Harp, Hip-O
  • New Orleans Gary U.S. Bonds
    Dance 'Til Quarter to Three with U.S. Bonds, Legrand
  • Goin' Back to New Orleans Joe Liggins and the Honey Drippers
    Creole Kings of New Orleans, Specialty
  • SEGMENT: Dr. Ike

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  • Instrumental: Zephyr Cove Duane Eddy
    Twang Thang: The Duane Eddy Anthology, Rhino
  • Rockin' in the Barnyard Winfield Parker
    When I'm Alone/Rockin' in the Barnyard, Ru-Jac
  • Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On Linda Gail Lewis
    Rockin' with Linda, Deep Elm
  • I'm a Lover Not a Fighter Lazy Lester
    True Blues, Excello
  • Rockin' Itis Billy Boy Arnold
    Prisoner's Plea/Rockin' Itis, Vee Jay
  • SEGMENT: Duane Eddy

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  • Instrumental: Aloha Golden Meadow Lost Bayou Ramblers
    Kalenda, Lost Bayou Records
  • Louisiana Man Rusty and Doug
    Louisiana Man/Make Me Realize, Hickory
  • Sabine Turnaround Lost Bayou Ramblers
    Kalenda, Lost Bayou Records
  • SEGMENT: Barbara Lynn

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  • End Bed: Ponderosa Stomp Lazy Lester
    House Rockin' and Hip Shakin', Vol. 4: Bayou Blues Harp, Hip-O

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Funky Banjo Don Vappie
    Banjo a la Creole, Vappielle
  • Tell Ya Mama Nem Corey Henry
    Lapeaita, Louisiana Red Hot Records
  • Sneakin' Sally Through the Alley Lee Dorsey
    Yes We Can, Polydor
  • Down on Me Janis Joplin
    Janis, Columbia Legacy
  • East Houston Blues Rodney Crowell
    Close Ties, New West
  • Color of the Blues John Prine and Susan Tedeschi
    John Prine-- For Better, or Worse, Oh Boy
  • Instrumental: Funeral Song for Mississippi John Hurt John Fahey
    Of Rivers and Religion, Warner Bros.
  • Hurricanes Carla and Esther Lightnin' Hopkins
    Po' Lightnin', Arhoolie
  • Texas Flood Stevie Ray Vaughn
    Texas Flood, Epic
  • Goin' to Sit Down on the Banks of the River Reverend Gary Davis
    Harlem Street Singer, Prestige
  • Walk Through the Streets of the City Joe Lastie Jr. and the Lastie Family
    Joe Lastie Jr. and the Lastie Family Gospel, Preservation Hall
  • Instrumental: Down By the Riverside Kid Ory and His Orchestra
    The Original Jazz, Verve
  • Green River Sherman Holmes
    The Sherman Holmes Project, Virginia Humanities Council
  • Watching the River Flow Bob Dylan
    Watching the River Flow/Spanish is the Loving Tongue, Columbia
  • Wide River to Cross Levon Helm
    Dirt Farmer, Vanguard
  • Many Rivers to Cross Jimmy Cliff
    The Harder They Come, Island
  • Rivers of Babylon The Melodians
    The Harder They Come, Island
  • Closing Bed: Lord Have Mercy John Fahey
    Of Rivers and Religion, Warner Brothers

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