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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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SONGS AS POEMS; POEMS AS SONGS

August 10th, 2022

We listen for poetry in music and music in poetry, songs as poems and poems as songs with Langston Hughes, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, and Ken Nordine. Plus, a visit to New York’s City Lore with poet-folklorist Steve Zeitlin, who rides the POEMobile to the People’s Poetry Gathering and then back to New Orleans to meet Louisiana’s poet laureate, Mona Lisa Saloy.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Poet Sly and the Family Stone
    There's a Riot Going On, Sony
  • Higher Ground Stevie Wonder
    Innervisions, Motown
  • Heart of Gold Leyla McCalla
    Leyla McCalla Vari-Colored Songes: A Tribute to Langston Hughes, Smithsonian Folkways
  • The Negro Speaks of Rivers Langston Hughes
    Langston Hughes Recordings, Smithsonian Folkways
  • Mississippi River Blues Big Bill Broonzy
    Chicago Calling, Life Series
  • A Poet With Something to Say Waddie Mitchell
    Sweat Equity, Western Jubilee Records
  • Let's All Help the Cowboys Sing the Blues Waylon Jennings
    Dreaming My Dreams, RCA
  • Instrumental: Sidewalks of NY Raymond Kane
    Hawaiian Sunset Music, Vol. 1, Hula Records
  • SEGMENT: Steve Zeitlin

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  • New York Subway Lord Invader
    Lord Invader in New York, Smithsonian Folkways
  • Número Seis Bobby Rodrigues y La Compañía
    Lead Me To That Beautiful Band, Fania
  • Living in the City Alynda Segarra, Hurray for the Riff Raff
    The Navigator, ATO
  • Hard Times in New York Town Bob Dylan
    Bootleg Series Vols 1-3 (rare and unreleased) 1961-1991, Sony
  • Instrumental: The Tea Leaf Prophecy (Lay Down Your Arms) Herbie Hancock, Joni Mitchell
    River: The Joni Letters, Verve
  • You Turn Me on I'm a Radio Joni Mitchell
    For the Roses, Asylum
  • Coyote Joni Mitchell
    Hejira, Asylum
  • Sake of the Song Hayes Carll
    Alone Together Sessions, Dualtone
  • Homeward Bound Simon & Garfunkel
    Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme, Columbia
  • End Bed: Anji Simon & Garfunkel
    Sounds of Silence, Columbia

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Lesson Number 1 Ken Nordine
    Word Jazz Vol. 2, UMG
  • Twisted Lambert Hendricks and Ross
    The Hottest New Group in Town: Lambert Hendricks and Ross, Sony
  • Lester Leaps In Al Young
    100 Great Poems: Classic Poets and Beatnik Freaks, Words of Wisdom
  • Lester Leaps In Count Basie's Kansas City Seven
    Count Basie-Ultimate Big Band Collection, Sony
  • Precisely the Right Rhymes Gang Starr
    Step Into the Arena, Virgin
  • The Blues Won't Let Me Take My Rest Henry Gray
    Louisiana Blues, Arhoolie
  • Instrumental: Little Bee Fats Domino
    They Call Me the Fat Man (The Legendary Imperial Records), Capitol Records
  • My Girl Josephine Fats Domino
    Fats Domino-Greatest Hits-Walking to New Orleans, Capitol
  • Sweet and Dandy Toots Hibbert
    Sweet and Dandy-Toots and the Maytals, Delta
  • Huey 'Piano' Smith Medley Dr. John
    Dr John's Gumbo, Atlantic
  • My Darling New Orleans Lil Queenie/Ron Cuccia and the Jazz Poetry Group
    Ron Cuccia and the Jazz Poetry Group, Takoma
  • Tipitina Professor Longhair
    Rock and Roll Gumbo, Blue Star
  • Instrumental: Tell It Like It Is Nina Simone
    Here Comes the Sun, Sony
  • Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu Huey "Piano" Smith
    Having a Good Time, Life Series
  • They All Ask'd for You Meters
    Fire on the Bayou, Atlantic
  • SEGMENT: Mona Lisa Saloy

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  • Mona Lisa Nat King Cole
    Unforgettable- Songs by Nat King Cole, Capitol
  • You Talk Too Much Joe Jones
    The Complete Ric & Ron Recordings Vol. 2, Classic New Orleans R & B and More 1958-1965, Rounder
  • Tell It Like It Is Aaron Neville
    The Very Best of Aaron Neville, A&M
  • End Bed: All These Things Allen Toussaint's Jazzity Project
    Going Places, Captivating Recording Technologies

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