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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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GATEMOUTH MOORE / RY COODER

August 3rd, 2005

Two men who embody eclecticism in the music they play and love. First, an in-depth discussion with guitarist and producer Ry Cooder, from his California roots in American blues, country and rock, to his forays into Tex-Mex, African, and East Indian music, his many film soundtracks, and his work in Cuba with the Buena Vista Social Club and guitarist Manuel Galban. Also we’ll remember the late blues and gospel singer Gatemouth Moore, who began performing with the Rabbit Foot Minstrels in the 1920s and preached at his church in Yazoo City, Mississippi. Plus the American Routes music mix we hope you seek… each week.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Available Space Ry Cooder
    Ry Cooder, Reprise
  • Police Dog Blues Ry Cooder
    Ry Cooder, Reprise
  • De Camino a La Vereda Ibrahim Ferrer
    Buena Vista Social Club, Nonesuch
  • INTERVIEW: Ry Cooder

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  • He'll Have To Go Ry Cooder
    Chicken Skin Music, Reprise
  • Goin' To Brownsville Ry Cooder
    Ry Cooder, Reprise
  • Instrumental: Walkin' Away Blues Ry Cooder & Sonny Terry
    Crossroads soundtrack, Warner
  • INTERVIEW: Ry Cooder
  • Memo From Turner Mick Jagger
    Performance soundtrack, Warner
  • INTERVIEW: Ry Cooder
  • Paris, Texas Ry Cooder, Jim Dickinson, David Lindley
    Paris, Texas, Warner
  • INTERVIEW: Ry Cooder
  • Ganges Delta Blues Ry Cooder & Vishwa Mohan Bhatt
    Meeting By The River, Waterlily Acoustics
  • Gomni Ali Farke Toure & Ry Cooder
    Talking Timbuktu, Rykodisc
  • Instrumental: Lasidan Ali Farke Toure, Ry Cooder, Gatemouth Brown
    Talking Timbuktu, Rykodisc
  • INTERVIEW: Ry Cooder

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  • Naufragio Ibrahim Ferrer
    Buenos Hermanos, Nonesuch
  • Echale Salsita Ry Cooder & Manuel Galban Mambo
    Mambo Sinuendo, Nonesuch

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Hey, Mr. Gatemouth Gatemouth Moore
    Hey Mr. Gatemouth, WestSide
  • Fore Day Creep Ida Cox
    Stars of the Apollo, Sony
  • Did You Ever Love a Woman BB King
    His RPM Hits 1951-1957, Ace
  • Blues No. 1 Jimmy Smith
    Six Views of the Blues, Blue Note
  • Nearer to Thee Sam Cooke with The Soul Stirrers
    The Complete Specialty Recordings of Sam Cooke, Specialty
  • Instrumental: Pop's Instrumental The Staple Singers
    Soul Folk In Action, Stax
  • INTERVIEW: Gatemouth Moore

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  • I Want A Lavender Cadillac Maurice King & His Wolverines
    OKeh Rhythm & Blues Story 1949-1957, Epic
  • Cadillac and a Model 'A' Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
    Anthology 1935-1973, Rhino
  • One Piece at a Time Johnny Cash & The Tennessee Three
    Hot Rods & Custom Classics, Rhino
  • Instrumental: Stick Shift The Duals
    Hot Rods & Custom Classics, Rhino
  • Christian's Automobile Bright Light Quartet
    Southern Journey Vol. 8: Velvet Voices, Rounder
  • Terraplane Blues John Lee Hooker
    Ultimate Collection 1948-1990, Rhino
  • Nothing But the Wheel Peter Wolf with Mick Jagger
    Sleepless, Artemis
  • Hands on the Wheel Willie Nelson
    Red Headed Stranger, Columbia/Legacy
  • End Bed: Woman Wanted James Cotton
    Fire Down Under the Hill, Telarc

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