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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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A MUSIC MAP OF NEW ORLEANS LIVES - WITH CREOLE JAZZ SINGER JOHN BOUTTé

March 2nd, 2022

It’s a sonic map of New Orleans music from the recording studios and nightclubs to jazz parades. Songs about life on Basin Street and Bourbon Street, to Rampart Street and the lady from la rue Dauphine in the voices of Trombone Shorty, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Ida Cox and Louis Prima. Then, a live session at Marigny Studios with Creole jazz and soul singer John Boutté who grew up in the Tremé neighborhood in a family of 10 kids, where singing was a household and street corner pastime.

Photo by Marc PoKempner

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: The Music Goes Round & Around Louis Armstrong
    Louis Armstrong-Decca Singles 1935-1946, Decca
  • Trombone Cholly Bessie Smith
    The Essential Bessie Smith, Columbia
  • Bourbon Street Parade James Andrews and Trombone Shorty
    Brothers, James Andrews
  • Basin Street Blues Mills Brothers
    Great Hits, UMG
  • Way Down Yonder in New Orleans Merle Travis
    Merle Travis Strictly Guitar, Capitol
  • King of the Road James Booker
    James Booker Classified, Rounder
  • Instrumental: Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans Tuts Washington
    New Orleans Piano Professor, Rounder
  • Louisiana Percy Mayfield
    Percy Mayfield—Poet of the Blues, Specialty
  • I Need Your Love So Bad Irma Thomas
    Irma Thomas—Wish Someone Would Care, Imperial
  • I Won't Cry Johnny Adams
    Heart and Soul, Sun
  • Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans Billie Holliday
    Portrait of an Artist 1935-1946, Crisler
  • Mama Don't Allow It Wendel Brunious and the New Orleans Roof Jazzmen
    Mama Don't Allow It, GHB Records
  • Instrumental: Basin Street Blues Dr. Michael White
    Adventures in New Orleans Jazz Part 1, Basin Street
  • I've Got the Blues for Rampart Street Ida Cox
    The Uncrowned Queen of the Blues, Black Swan Records
  • Salee Dame Baby Dodds, Albert Nicholas, Danny Barker, James P. Johnson, Pops Foster
    Jazz a Créole, GHB Records
  • Bourbon Street Blues Louis Prima, Sam Butera & the Witnesses
    Strictly Prima, Capitol
  • Music is My Life Lillian Boutté
    Music is My Life, Timeless Records
  • Careless Love Fats Domino
    "They Call Me the Fat Man"—Antoine 'Fats' Domino, Capitol
  • End Bed: Doc's Delight Doctor John, Wardell Quezergue and others
    Wardell Quezergue-After the Math-The St. Agnes Sessions, Jazz Foundation of America

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Improvisation 1 Oscar Rossignoli
    American Routes Live at Marigny Studios,
  • Basin Street Blues John Boutté
    American Routes Live at Marigny Studios,
  • Sisters John Boutté
    American Routes Live at Marigny Studios,
  • Grits Ain't Groceries (All Around the World) John Boutté
    American Routes Live at Marigny Studios,
  • Instrumental: Improvisation 2 Oscar Rossignoli
    American Routes Live at Marigny Studios,
  • Good Neighbors John Boutté
    American Routes Live at Marigny Studios,
  • At the Foot of Canal Street John Boutté
    American Routes Live at Marigny Studios,
  • Beautiful City John Boutté
    American Routes Live at Marigny Studios,
  • Little Red Rooster John Boutté
    American Routes Live at Marigny Studios,
  • Instrumental: Improvisation 3 Oscar Rossignoli
    American Routes Live at Marigny Studios,
  • Treme Song John Boutté
    American Routes Live at Marigny Studios,
  • Change is Gonna Come John Boutté
    American Routes Live at Marigny Studios,
  • SEGMENT: John Boutté

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  • Build a Better World John Boutté
    American Routes Live at Marigny Studios,
  • End Bed: Improvisation 4 Oscar Rossignoli
    American Routes Live at Marigny Studios,

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    NEW ORLEANS TRADITIONAL JAZZ LIVE WITH DR. MICHAEL WHITE AND THE ORIGINAL LIBERTY JAZZ BAND - JAZZ MANOUCHE FROM CHRISTINE TASSAN ET LES IMPOSTEURES

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    THE COLOR OF MUSIC WITH HENRY BUTLER & LONNIE HOLLEY

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