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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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PIEDMONT BLUES WITH JONTAVIOUS WILLIS & ANDREW ALLI AND THE STOOGES BRASS BAND LIVE FROM NEW ORLEANS

January 4th, 2023

We’re digging into the Piedmont blues, a rich style that mixes ragtime, old-time country music, jazz, gospel, hollers, and historic popular songs. A conversation and music with two younger players in the tradition: guitarist/singer Jontavious Willis from rural Greenwood, GA and harmonica player Andrew Alli from Richmond VA. Plus music by Sonny Terry and Brownie McGee, Elizabeth Cotten, Cannonball Adderly and Bob Wills. Then it’s The Stooges Brass Band from New Orleans in a live studio session.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: John's Ragtime John Jackson
    Don't Let Your Deal Go Down, Arhoolie
  • Gillum's Windy Blues Jazz Gillum
    Jazz Gillum: Complete Recorded Works Vol. 1, 1936-1938, Document Records
  • Take Me Back to Tulsa Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys
    Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys - The Tiffany Transcriptions, Warner
  • Pick a Bale of Cotton Sonny Terry
    Sonny Terry: The Folkways Years, Smithsonian Folkways
  • Worksong Cannonball Adderley Quintet
    Them Dirty Blues, Riverside
  • I'm a Lover Not a Fighter Lazy Lester
    Lester's Stomp: The Lazy Lester Singles Collection, From the Valley
  • My Babe Little Walter
    Little Walter: The Complete Chess Masters, UMG
  • Instrumental: Brownies Blues Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee
    Folksongs of Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Roulette
  • Goin Down the Road Feeling Bad Etta Baker
    Instrumental Music of the Southern Appalachians, Tradition Records
  • Take Me to the Country Jontavious Willis
    Spectacular Class, Kind of Blue Music
  • SEGMENT: Jontavious Willis and Andrew Alli

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  • So Glad You're Mine Jontavious Willis and Andrew Alli
    Live at the 2022 Montana Folk Festival,
  • Instrumental: John Henry Etta Baker
    Etta Baker - One Dime Blues, Rounder
  • Take This Hammer Odetta
    Odetta Sings Ballads and Blues, Tradition Records
  • John Henry Cephas and Wiggins
    Blues Routes, Smithsonian Folkways
  • Freight Train Elizabeth Cotten
    Elizabeth Cotten - Frieght Train and Other North Carolina Folksongs and Tunes, Smithsonian Folkways
  • Key to the Highway Warner Williams with Jay Summerhour
    Warner Williams Live with Jay Summerhour - Blues Highway, Smithsonian Folkways
  • End Bed: Alligator Shuffle Lazy Lester
    Lazy Lester - Harp and Soul, Alligator Records

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: One Hundred Percent Cotton The Stooges Brass Band
    American Routes Live at Artisound Studios,
  • Farewell to Storyville Kid Ory
    The Complete Kid Ory Columbia Session 1946, American Music Records
  • Bourbon Street Parade Young Tuxedo Brass Band
    Jazz Begins, Atlantic
  • When the Saints Go Marching In Leroy Jones
    New Orleans Brass Band Music - Memories of the Hurrican and Fairview Band, LJ Music
  • Glory Glory/Jesus on the Mainline Rebirth Brass Band
    We Come to Party, Shanachie
  • SEGMENT: The Stooges Brass Band

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  • Hurricane Season Trombone Shorty
    Backatown, Verve
  • Instrumental: New Orleans Blues Dirty Dozen Brass Band
    Jelly, Columbia Records
  • Wind It Up Like Michael Buck The Stooges Brass Band
    American Routes at Artisound Studios,
  • Where You From The Stooges Brass Band
    American Routes at Artisound Studios,
  • Instrumental: Just a Closer Walk with Thee Kermit Ruffins, Rebirth Brass Band
    Throwback, Basin Street
  • Why The Stooges Brass Band
    American Routes at Artisound Studios,
  • They Like The Stooges Music The Stooges Brass Band
    American Routes at Artisound Studios,
  • End Bed: Muses The Stooges Brass Band
    American Routes at Artisound Studios,

THE LATEST STREAMS

  • February 1st, 2023

    HOME GROWN SOUL: JIMMY HUGHES AND BOOKER T. JONES

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  • January 25th, 2023

    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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  • January 18th, 2023

    THE COLOR OF MUSIC WITH HENRY BUTLER & LONNIE HOLLEY

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