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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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MUSIC CIRCUS

October 6th, 2021

Ladies, Gentlemen, children of all ages, it’s a musical circus from the Big Top. Time to bring in the clowns and marvel at the dancing bears and parading elephants. Say yes to the organ grinder. Also to Bruce Springsteen, Victoria Spivey, Los Lobos and Ella Fitzgerald, plus visit with trapeze artist Dolly Jacobs and one time circus worker and glass eater, singer Meschiya Lake. Then a trip to Coney Island, where we’ll ride the Wonder Wheel and meet up with a carnival barker and Little Miss FireFly.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Circus Life 1920s Wurlitzer Carousel Organ
    Carousel Organ Varieties, Vol. 1, Gold 20
  • Spinning Wheel Blood, Sweat and Tears
    Blood, Sweat and Tears, Sony
  • The Ferris Wheel Everly Brothers
    Gone, Gone, Gone, Warner Brothers
  • Little Egypt The Coasters
    20 Greatist Hits, Gusto Records
  • Julia The Flatlanders
    Now Again, New West Records
  • Tightrope Leon Russell
    Carney, Shelter
  • Instrumental: The Man on the Flying Trapeze The Dukes of Dixieland
    Circus Time with the Dukes of Dixieland, Vol. 7, Audio Fidelity
  • Segment: Dolly Jacobs

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  • Spanish Pipedream John Prine
    John Prine, Atlantic
  • Clip: Meschiya Lake

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  • Elephants Meschiya Lake, Soren Siegumfeldt String Swing
    This is Meschiya Lake, Sundance
  • Baby Elephant Walk Les Brown Jr.
    Wildest Drums Yet!, GNP
  • Wild Billy's Circus Story Bruce Springsteen
    The Wild, the Innocent & the E-Street Shuffle, Columbia
  • When the Circus Comes Los Lobos
    Kiko, Warner
  • Instrumental: Barnum & Bailey's Favorite 1920s Wurlitzer Carousel Music
    Carousel Organ Varieties, Vol. 1, Gold 20
  • Organ Grinder Blues Victoria Spivey
    The Victoria Spivey Collection, Acrobat Music
  • Organ Grinder's Swing Ella Fitzgerald & Her Savoy Eight
    Miss Ella's Playhouse, Verve
  • Simon Smith and the Amazing Dancing Bear Randy Newman
    Sail Away, Warner
  • The Bare Necessities Louis Armstrong
    Disney Songs the Satchmo Way, Disney
  • End Bed: Send in the Clowns Tyler Childers
    Long Violent History, Hickman Holler Records

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Cyclone Johnny and the Hurricanes
    The Best of Johnny & the Hurricanes Vol. 2, Drew's Entertainment
  • Love Roller Coaster Ohio Players
    Honey, Mercury
  • Life is a Carnival (Live) The Band
    The Last Waltz, Rhino
  • Coney Island (Live) Al Jolson
    Live in '35!, Mastercorp Pty Ltd
  • Coney Island Washboard Swift Jewel Cowboys
    Western Swing and Country Jazz, JSP
  • Segment: Philomena Marano

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  • Lover Roller Coaster Big Joe Turner
    The Definitive Blues Collection, Atlantic
  • Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite! The Beatles
    Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, EMI
  • Instrumental: Twelfth Street Rag Verne Langdon
    Circus Clown Callope! Vols. 1-2, Electric Lemon
  • Segment: Philomena Marano Part 2

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  • Coney Island Steeplechase The Velvet Underground
    Another View, Verve
  • My Flying Saucer Billy Bragg & Wilco
    Mermaid Avenue, Vol. II, Nonesuch
  • Carnival Natalie Merchant
    Tigerlily, Elektra
  • Segment: Ray Valens the barker

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  • Coney Island Baby The Excellents
    Forever Doo Wop, Vol. 2, Essential Media
  • Segment: Little Miss Firefly

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  • Instrumental: Bakers Dozen Mickey Baker
    The Wildest Guitar, Sepia Tone
  • Segment: Stanley Fox

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  • Human Cannonball Loudon Wainwright III
    Grown Man, Virgin
  • Stage Fright The Band
    Stage Fright, Capitol
  • Coney Island The Barry Sisters
    Hebrew National Kosher Classics, RCA
  • Under the Boardwalk Aaron Neville
    My Tue Story, Blue Note Records
  • End Bed: Coney Island Rag Robert Bruce
    Silent Movie Piano, Sonoton

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