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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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KEEP A COOL YULE

December 19th, 2018

This Christmas, we’re serving up holiday platters for the many moods and sonic flavors of the season. We get down to some very merry Chicano rockabilly from Los Straitjackets; gather around the fire with French fiddlers in snowy Maine; imbibe “Sugar Rum Cherry” concocted by Duke Ellington; dream of a white Christmas a la Booker T. & the MGs, and hear the tale of Miles Davis‘ “Blue X-mas” from jazz composer Bob Dorough. Plus, cool Yuletide exotica from Esquivel, joyous free jazz from Rahsaan Roland Kirk and ring shouting for a New Year from the Georgia Sea Island Singers.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Santa Claus is Coming to Town Jimmy McGriff
    Christmas with McGriff, Sue Records
  • Jingle Bells (Greetings from Esquivel!) Esquivel
    Merry Xmas from the Space-Age Bachelor Pad, Bar/None
  • What Will Santa Say When He Finds Everybody Swingin'? Kermit Ruffins
    Have a Crazy Cool Christmas, Basin Street
  • Cool Yule Louis Armstrong
    'Zat You, Santa Claus?/Cool Yule, Decca
  • Papa Ain't No Santa Claus (Mama Ain't No Christmas Tree) Butterbeans and Susie
    Screening the Blues, CBS
  • Santa Looked a Lot Like Daddy Buck Owens
    Christmas with Buck Owens and his Buckaroos, Capitol
  • Run Run Rudolph Chuck Berry
    The Chess Box, Chess
  • Instrumental: Christmas in the City Marvin Gaye
    Christmas in the City, Motown Master Series
  • California Dreaming Bobby Womack
    Why Do Fools Fall in Love Soundtrack, Rhino
  • River Joni Mitchell
    Blue, Reprise
  • Winterlude Joe Ely
    To: Kate- A Benefit for Kate's Sake, Western Beat Records
  • Footprints in the Snow Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys
    Winning Combinations, MCA Special Products
  • Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning Mississippi Fred McDowell
    Fred McDowell: The Alan Lomax Recordings, Domino Sound
  • We Free Kings Rahsaan Roland Kirk
    We Free Kings, Mercury
  • Instrumental: White Christmas Tuts Washington
    New Orleans Piano Professor, Rounder
  • SEGMENT: Maine French Fiddlers

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  • Christmas Must Be Tonight Amy Helm and the Wood Brothers
    Amy Helm and the Wood Brothers, Spotify Single
  • Go Tell It On the Mountain The McCrary Sisters
    Go Tell It on the Mountain/No Room at the Inn, Rounder
  • Closing Bed: White Christmas Booker T. & the MGs
    In the Christmas Spirit, Atlantic

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Christmas Blues Ramsey Lewis
    The Joy of Christmas Past, GNP
  • Faraway Christmas Blues Johnny Otis
    The Johnny Otis R&B Caravan/Complete Savoy Recordings, Savoy
  • Baltimore Oriole Bob Dorough
    Devil May Care, Bethlehem Archives
  • CLIP: Bob Dorough

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  • Blue Christmas Lumineers
    Blue Christmas- Single, Lumineers
  • Merry Christmas Baby Charles Brown
    Blue Yule: Christmas Blues and R&B Classics , Rhino
  • Instrumental: Greensleeves Jimmy Smith
    Christmas Cookin' , Verve
  • Christmas in Vietnam Johnny & Jon
    Merry Christmas Baby, Ronn
  • SEGMENT: Chuck Siler

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  • Santa Claus is Ska-ing to Town Granville Williams Orchestra
    Natty and Nice: A Reggae Christmas, Rhino
  • Christmas is a Coming Leadbelly
    Leadbelly Sings for Children, Smithsonian Folkways
  • J'ai Vu le Loup, Le Renard et la Belette Balfa Brothers
    Balfa Brothers Play More Traditional Music, Swallow
  • Bachata en Navidad La Sonora Matancera featuring Celia Cruz
    Celebremos Nochebuena con Sonora Matancera, Codigo Music
  • Feliz Navidad Los Straightjackets
    'Tis the Season for Los Straightjackets, Yep Roc
  • Instrumental: Sugar Rum Cherry (Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy) Duke Ellington
    Three Suites, Columbia
  • Sherburne (While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night) Sacred Harp Singers
    Songs of Christmas from the Alan Lomax Collection, Rounder
  • Cherry Tree Carol Pentangle
    Solomon's Seal, Reprise
  • Greensleeves John Coltrane
    The Best of John Coltrane: His Greatest Years, Vol. 2, Impulse
  • O Day Bessie Jones/Georgia Sea Island Singers
    Songs of Christmas from the Alan Lomax Collection, Rounder
  • End Bed: Auld Lang Syne John Fahey
    John Fahey Christmas Soli, Fantasy

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