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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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SOUNDS OF SOLACE

October 14th, 2020

We reflect on these difficult times with sounds of solace and uplift to see us through solitude and the unknown. From Blue Skies and the Milky White Way to downhome and earthly struggles with Mavis Staples and Elvis, Bill Monroe, and Louis Armstrong.

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HOUR ONE

  • Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting Charles Mingus
    Blues and Roots, Atlantic
  • Let's Get Together Staple Singers
    Faith and Grace: A Family Journey 1953-1976 , Concord
  • Trouble in My Way Swan Silvertones
    Singin' in My Soul: Gospel Greats, Vee-Jay
  • Marching On Kyshona Armstrong
    Listen , Kyshona Armstrong/Tone Tree Music
  • When the Saints Go Marchin' In Kermit Ruffins and Irvin Mayfield
    Beautiful World , Basin St. Records
  • Instrumental: Follow Your Heart John McLaughlin
    My Goal's Beyond , Douglas
  • Stuff That Works Guy Clark
    Dublin Blues , Dualtone
  • Lean on Me Bill Withers
    Still Bill , Columbia
  • Touch of Gray Grateful Dead
    In the Dark , Warner Brothers
  • Instrumental: Ripple David West
    Pickin’ on the Grateful Dead: A Tribute , CMH
  • Way Over Yonder Carole King
    Tapestry , Sony
  • Wayfaring Stranger Bill Monroe
    The Gospel Spirit , MCA
  • It's a Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall Leon Russell
    Leon Russell and the Shelter People , Shelter
  • Rainin' in My Heart Slim Harpo
    Slim Harpo Sings "Rainin' in My Heart" , Excello
  • I Won't Have to Cry No More Sensational Barnes Brothers
    Nobody's Fault But My Own , Bible & Tire Recording Co.
  • Hurry Sundown Little Richard
    Get Down With It!: The OKeh Sessions , Sony
  • End Bed: Blue Horizon Aurora Nealand & the Royal Roses
    A Tribute to Sidney Bechet: Live at Preservation Hall, New Orleans , Aurora Nealand

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Dark Sacred Night Dauphin Island, Alabama
    American Routes original recording,
  • The Sound of Silence Simon and Garfunkel
    Sounds of Silence , Columbia
  • Michael Row the Boat Ashore Johnny Rivers
    Johnny Rivers Rocks the Folk , Imperial
  • Many Rivers Steve Young
    Seven Bridges Road, Reprise
  • Many Rivers to Cross Jimmy Cliff
    The Harder They Come, Island
  • Rivers of Babylon Melodians
    The Harder They Come, Island
  • Instrumental: The Exodus Song Booker T & the MGs
    Doin' Our Thing , Atlantic
  • Send Me a Sign Cory Henry and Robert Randolph
    Art of Love , Cory Henry
  • Angel from Montgomery Bonnie Raitt
    Streetlights , Warner Brothers
  • We'll Meet Again Johnny Cash
    American IV: The Man Comes Around , American Recordings
  • Goin' to Sit Down On the Banks of the River Rev. Gary Davis
    Harlem Street Singer , Fantasy
  • Twelve Gates to the City Cephas and Wiggins
    Cool Down , Alligator Records
  • Instrumental: Pretty Stars Bill Frisell
    Music IS , Okeh
  • I Bid You Goodnight Aaron Neville
    Warm Your Heart , A&M Records
  • Milky White Way Elvis Presley
    His Hand in Mine--By Elvis , RCA
  • When I Get to Heaven John Prine
    The Tree of Forgiveness , Oh Boy
  • Blue Skies Ella Fitzgerald
    Get Happy , Verve
  • What a Wonderful World Louis Armstrong
    What a Wonderful World , Decca
  • Closing Bed: Creole Love Call Ellis Marsalis
    Duke in Blues , Sony

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