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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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AMERICAN ROUTES STAYCATIONS, DESTINATIONS AND SUMMERTIME VARIATIONS

August 18th, 2021

At the peak of the summer season, American Routes is riding the airwaves to exotic destinations, swinging and surfing to all manner of beachside rhythms from the Beach Boys, Toots and the Maytals, Wilco, and the Kinks. We also stay home to bask in the sultry heat of “Summertime,” composed by George Gershwin and novelist Dubose Heyward in 1934 for the opera Porgy and Bess. It’s one of the most covered tunes in the American songbook with over thirty thousand renditions. We’ll hear takes from Janis Joplin, Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, Sam Cooke, and the Zombies.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Summertime Joe Pass Quartet
    Walkin', Kendal
  • Summertime Big Brother and the Holding Company, feat. Janis Joplin
    Cheap Thrills, Columbia/Legacy
  • All Day Music WAR
    All Day Music, Far Out Productions
  • C'mon and Swim Bobby Freeman
    Goldisc Records from the Vault, Vol. 2, Goldisc
  • Let's Twist Again Chubby Checker
    Cameo Parkway—The Best of Chubby Checker, ABKCO
  • Dancing in the Street Martha and the Vandellas
    The Rolling Stone Women in Rock Collection, Razor and Tie
  • Instrumental: Sunshine Twist Jelly Roll Kings
    Rockin' the Juke Joint Down, Earwig
  • Sunny Afternoon The Kinks
    The Complete Collection, Castle Communications
  • Femme là dit Feufollet
    The Best of Valcour Records 2006-2011, Valcour
  • Pressure Drop Toots and the Maytals
    The Harder They Come Soundtrack, Island
  • In the Summertime Mungo Jerry
    Super Hits of the '70s—Have a Nice Day Vol. 3, Rhino
  • Summertime Billy Stewart
    One More Time: The Chess Years, Geffen Records
  • Instrumental: Green Onions Booker T & the MGs
    Rock Instrumental Classics, Vol. 4: Soul, Rhino
  • Red Beans Professor Longhair
    Crawfish Fiesta, Alligator Records
  • Bar-B-Q Wendy Rene
    Bar-B-Que Soulabration, Rhino
  • Watermelon Man Oscar Brown Jr.
    Sin and Soul... and Then Some, Columbia/Legacy
  • Summertime Duke Ellington
    Duke Ellington Presents, Bethlehem Records
  • Summertime Billie Holiday
    Lady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday, Columbia
  • End Bed: Summertime Sidney Bechet
    1928-1940, Classics Records

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Summertime Slide Hampton
    Two Sides of Slide, Margate
  • Let's Get Lost Chet Baker
    Career: 1952-1988, Shout! Factory
  • Summertime Zombies
    Begin Here, Marquis Entertainment
  • I'm-A-Livin'-On-Easy Atta Isaacs & Gabby Pahinui
    Two Slack Key Guitars, Michael Cords
  • Summerteeth Wilco
    Summerteeth, Warner/Reprise
  • Keep an Eye on Summer Beach Boys
    Shut Down Vol. 2, Capitol Records
  • Instrumental: Pipeline Bill Frisell
    Guitar in the Space Age, Okeh
  • Dark Eyes Takeshi Terauchi & the Bunnys
    Let's Go Classics: Takeshi Terauchi & the Bunnys, Telefunken
  • Walk—Don't Run Ventures
    Rock Instrumental Classics, Vol. 2: The '60s, Rhino
  • Watusi Boogaloo Willie Rosario and his Orchestra
    Boogaloo & Guaguancó, ATCO
  • Summertime Rick Nelson
    Best of Rick Nelson Vol. 2, Capitol Records
  • Summertime Blues Rddie Cochran
    Hot Rod Revels, The Right Stuff
  • California Sun The Rivieras
    Carlifornia Sun—The Best of the Rivieras, Riviera Records
  • Instrumental: Summertime Miles Davis
    Porgy and Bess, Columbia/Legacy
  • My Old Heart Anders Osborne
    Coming Down, MC Records
  • Raining in My Heart Slim Harpo
    The Excello Story Vol. 3, Universal Music Special Markets
  • It's Raining Irma Thomas
    Sweet Soul Queen of New Orleans: The Irma Thomas Collection, CEMA Special Markets
  • I Loves You Porgy Nina Simone
    Little Girl Blue, Bethlehem Records
  • Wade in the Water The Staple Singers
    Freedom Highway, Verve
  • Summertime Sam Cooke
    Portrait of a Legend 1951-1964, ABKCO
  • End Bed: Southern Nights Allen Toussaint
    American Tunes, Nonesuch

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