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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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December 8th, 2004

American Routes shows that two heads, voices, guitars, banjos, or horns can be better than one. Guests include the venerable Piedmont blues pair Cephas and Wiggins, and New Orleans collaborators Henry Butler and Corey Harris. We’ll also hear great singing and composing duos: Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs, Louis Prima and Keely Smith, Lester Young and Oscar Peterson, and Lennon and McCartney.

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HOUR ONE

  • You And I Ray Charles & Betty Carter
    Ray Charles & Betty Carter, Castle
  • Adam & Eve Bob Marley
    The Complete Wailers Vol.1, Koch
  • Sin City Beck and Emmylou Harris
    Return of the Greivous Angel, Almo
  • Jackson Johnny Cash & June Carter Cash
    Columbia Country Classics Vol. 4, Columbia
  • Gonna Lay Down My Guitar Delmore Brothers
    Brown's Ferry Blues,
  • I'm Sitting on top of the World Les Paul & Mary Ford
    The Best of the Capitol Masters, Capitol
  • Instrumental: Medley: Black and White / Ragtime Annie Chet Atkins & Doc Watson
    Reflections, Sugar Hill
  • INTERVIEW: Cephas & Wiggins

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  • I Ain't Got No Lovin' Baby Now Cephas & Wiggins
  • Walkin' Mama Cephas & Wiggins
  • Midnight Special Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee
    Midnight Special, Fantasy
  • 3 O'Clock in the Morning Blues Ike and Tina Turner
    Bold Soul Sister,
  • Instrumental: Pitter Panther Patter Duke Ellington & Jimmy Blanton
    Solos, Duets And Trios, BMG
  • I Must Have That Man Billie Holiday with Lester Young
    Lady Day's 25 Greatest Hits, ASV
  • (It Takes) Two To Tango Lester Young
    Lester Young w Oscar Peterson Trio, Verve
  • When in Rome Tony Bennett and Bill Evans
    The Tony Bennett and Bill Evans Album, Riverside
  • Buona Sera Louis Prima and Keely Smith
    The Capitol Recordings: Louis Prima, Keely Smith, Sam Butera,

HOUR two

  • Open bed: Tea For Two Machito
    Mucho Macho, Pablo
  • Tea For Two Duke Ellington
    At Newport, Columbia
  • Tea For Two Anita O'Day
    Ultimate, Verve
  • Two For The Blues Frances Wayne
    Atlantic Jazz Vocals: Voices of Cool Vol 1, Rhino
  • Bring it on Home to Me Sam Cooke w/ Low Rawls
    The Man & His Music, RCA
  • Gomni Ali Farka Toure & Ry Cooder
    Talking Timbuktu, Ryko
  • Instrumental: It's Just The Two Of Us Rebirth Brass Band
    Limited Edition: Live at the Maple Leaf, Rebirth
  • I Got Rhythm Slam Stewart and Don Byas
    The Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz Vol.3,
  • I'll Never Be Free Paul Gayten with Annie Laurie
    Regal Records in New Orleans, Specialty
  • INTERVIEW: Corey Harris & Henry Butler

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  • Instrumental: Flint Hill Special Flatt & Scruggs
    The Essential: ‘Tis Sweet To Be Remembered, Columbia/Legacy
  • By The Mark Gillian Welch w/ David Rawlings
    Revival, Almo
  • Who's That Knockin'? Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard
    Pioneering Women Of Bluegrass, Smithsonian-Folkways
  • Love of my Life Everly Brothers
    Classic, Bear Family
  • Two of Us The Beatles
    Let it Be, Capitol

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