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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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"HOW MANY ROADS...?" BOB DYLAN'S BACK PAGES

December 27th, 2017

Bob Dylan’s songs are part of American consciousness, with sources and symbols drawing from old-time country and folk, blues and ballads, ancient and modern poetry, the beauties and absurdities of life, love and loss. His contributions to the big river of songs have grown and been recognized worldwide. The young man from Hibbing, Minnesota, is now an elder… a Nobel Laureate; but his listeners didn’t need that or any such weathervane to prize Bob Dylan. It was, and is, always in his words and voice, music and memory where fans and friends found inspiration. Bob’s songs ask questions and seek action. They remain timely in this dark season with a New Year ahead. We hear Dylan’s early, classic, rare and more recent recordings along with comments from Joan Baez and filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker (“Don’t Look Back”). Also Dylan’s music as played by the Byrds and the Band, Stevie Wonder and Nina Simone, Doug Sahm and Sandy Denny. We hope you enjoy listening to this program as much as we did making it.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Corrina, Corrina Bob Dylan
    The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, Columbia
  • Baby, Please Don't Go Bob Dylan
    Bob Dylan, Columbia
  • Talkin' New York Bob Dylan
    Bob Dylan, Columbia
  • This Land is Your Land Woody Guthrie
    This Land Is Your Land: The Asch Recording Vol. 1, Smithsonian Folkways
  • Mr. Tambourine Man Bob Dylan
    Bringing It All Back Home, Columbia
  • John Brown Blind Boy Grunt
    Broadside Ballads Vol. 1, Broadside
  • Blowin' in the Wind Bob Dylan
    The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, Columbia
  • Instrumental: Guitar Breakdown Woody Guthrie
    My Dusty Road, Rounder
  • CLIP: Hard Rain's Gonna Fall Patti Smith
  • Hard Rain's Gonna Fall Bob Dylan
    The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, Columbia
  • Highway 61 Revisited Bob Dylan
    Highway 61 Revisited , Columbia
  • Bob Dylan's 115th Dream Bob Dylan
    Bringing It All Back Home, Columbia
  • Instrumental: Don't Think Twice Tangled Up In Bluegrass
    Tangled Up In Bluegrass: A Tribute to Bob Dylan , CMH
  • Like a Rolling Stone Bob Dylan
    Highway 61 Revisited, Columbia
  • CLIP: Joan Baez
  • Daddy You Been On My Mind Joan Baez
    Farewell Angelina, Vanguard
  • Lay Down Your Weary Tune Bob Dylan
    Biograph, Columbia
  • End Bed: Corrina, Corrina Bob Dylan
    The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, Columbia

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Cantina Theme Bob Dylan
    Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, Columbia
  • Just Like A Woman Nina Simone
    Here Comes the Sun, RCA Victor
  • Wallflower Doug Sahm and Band
    Doug Sahm and Band, Atlantic
  • Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 Bob Dylan
    Blonde on Blonde, Columbia
  • Dirt Road Blues Bob Dylan
    Time Out of Mind, Columbia
  • Subterranean Homesick Blues Bob Dylan
    Bringing It All Back Home, Columbia
  • Everything is Broken The Bel-Aires with Henry Clay and the Hennessey Brothers
    Million Dollar Bash: Missouri Salutes Bob Dylan, Home Tone/ Painfully Midwestern
  • Instrumental: Billy 1 Bob Dylan
    Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, Columbia
  • Girl from the North Country Dylan and Cash
    Nashville Skyline, Columbia
  • Tomorrow is a Long Time Sandy Denny
    Sandy , A&M
  • Maggie's Farm Bob Dylan
    Bob Dylan-- Folk Rogue-- 1964-1965, Wild West
  • Gotta Serve Somebody Shirley Caesar
    Gotta Serve Somebody-- The Gospel Songs of Bob Dylan , Sony/BMG
  • I Shall Be Released The Band
    Music From Big Pink, Capitol
  • Instrumental: Knockin' on Heaven's Door Tangled Up in Bluegrass
    Tangled Up in Bluegrass: A Tribute to Dylan, CMH
  • My Back Pages The Byrds
    Younger than Yesterday, Columbia
  • Blowin' in the Wind Stevie Wonder
    Up-Tight, Tamla
  • The Times They Are A-Changin' Bob Dylan
    The Times They Are A-Changin', Columbia
  • End Bed: Final Theme Bob Dylan
    Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, Columbia

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