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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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MUSICAL MEMORIES WITH JOE ELY & ROSCOE ROBINSON

May 8th, 2019

We reach for “mystic chords of memory” with singer-songwriter Joe Ely and gospel/soul man Roscoe Robinson to hear about the ground they’ve covered as veteran touring musicians. Joe starts us off in Lubbock, Texas, where he grew up, and tells of railroading across America, running off with the circus, musical explorations with the Flatlanders and his role in Austin’s Cosmic Cowboy scene. Roscoe, now in his 91st orbit around the sun, remembers his childhood in Dermott, Arkansas, the family’s migration north, traveling the gospel circuit through the Jim Crow South, taking the stage at the Apollo Theater and his life-long spiritual journey. Plus, we spin travel tunes from artists’ influences like Buddy Holly, Flaco Jimenez and the Staple Singers.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Treat Me Like a Saturday Night Joe Ely
    Joe Ely, MCA
  • Down the Line Buddy Holly and Bob Montgomery
    Down the Line/I Wanna Play House With You, Coral
  • Road Hawg Joe Ely
    Full Circle: the Lubbock Tapes, Rack'Em Records
  • Waiting for a Train Jimmie Rodgers
    Blue Yodel No. 4/Waiting For a Train, Victor
  • Windmills and Water Tanks Joe Ely
    Full Circle: The Lubbock Tapes, Rack'Em Records
  • Waymore's Blues Waylon Jennings
    Dreaming My Dreams, RCA Victor
  • Instrumental: Red River Valley Quebe Sisters
    Texas Fiddlers, self-released
  • Streets of Laredo Marty Robbins
    More Greatest Hits, Columbia
  • Across the Border Line Flaco Jimenez
    Partners, Reprise
  • SEGMENT: Joe Ely

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  • Instrumental: Lupus #1 Tom Morrell and the Time Warp Top Hands
    Wolf Tracks, Shanachie
  • Deep Eddy Blues Jimmie Dale Gilmore
    Don't Look for a Heartache, Hightone Records
  • Borderless Love The Flatlanders
    Hills and Valleys, New West
  • Standin' at a Big Hotel Joe Ely
    Full Circle: The Lubbock Tapes, Rack'Em Records
  • Dallas Joe Ely
    Musta Notta Gotta Lotta, MCA
  • White Freightliner Blues Joe Ely and Joel Guzman
    Live Cactus!, Rack'Em Records
  • End Bed: San José Snooks Eaglin
    Snooks Eaglin with his New Orleans Friends, Sonet

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: The Preacher Jimmy Smith
    Jimmy Smith Retrospective, Blue Note
  • Freedom Highway The Staple Singers
    Freedom Highway, Legacy
  • I Shall Be Released Blind Boys of Alabama
    Almost Home, BBOA
  • SEGMENT: Roscoe Robinson

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  • Instrumental: The National Anthem: OG Can UC Carla Bley Big Band
    Looking for America, Watt
  • Forgive Them Father Lauryn Hill
    The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, Ruffhouse
  • Father Father Pop Staples
    Father Father, Virgin
  • Hard Times Johnny Cash
    Unearthed, American Recordings
  • Once They Banned Imagine Drive-By Truckers
    American Band, ATO Records
  • Instrumental: The House I Live In Sonny Rollins
    Sonny Rollins 1956, Giants of Jazz
  • I Pity the Poor Immigrant Marion Williams
    The New Message, Atlantic
  • Soy Mexico Americano Los Cenzontles
    Raza de Oro, Cenzontles
  • America the Beautiful Keb mo
    Freedom: Songs From the Heart of Amerca, Columbia/Legacy
  • A Change is Gonna Come Terence Trent D'Arby and Booker T. & the MGs
    Freedom: Songs From the Heart of America, Sony
  • Closing Bed: America the Beautiful The Happyland Band
    Saints' Paradise: Trombone Shout Bands from the United House of Prayer, Smithsonian Folkways

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