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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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FESTIVALS OF SUMMER

August 20th, 2003

Summer is the time to enjoy music in the great outdoors. We’ll visit some festivals around the country, including the venerable National Folk Festival, which takes place in Bangor, Maine this August, and the Freedom Creek Festival, organized by bluesman Willie King in Aliceville, Alabama. Plus music from legendary gatherings like the Newport Folk & Jazz Festivals, the Monterey Pop Festival, and Montreaux. Grab a blanket and picnic basket and turn up the radio.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Lightning's Boogie Lightning Hopkins
    Clifton Chenier/Mance Lipscomb/Lightning Hopkins: Live!, Arhoolie
  • Summertime (live at Woodstock) Janis Joplin
    I Got Dem 'Ol Kozmic Blues Again Mama!, Sony
  • You Gotta Move Cassandra Wilson
    Belly of the Sun, Blue Note
  • Satisfaction Otis Redding
    The Monterey International Pop Festival, Rhino
  • I Feel So Good Muddy Waters
    At Newport 1960, MCA
  • Instrumental: Strollin' With Bones T-Bone Walker
    Blues Masters: The Very Best Of T-Bone Walker, Rhino
  • SEGMENT: The Freedom Creek Festival with Willie King

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  • This Little Light of Mine Freedom Singers
    Gospel at Newport, Vanguard
  • I Got It The Chambers Brothers
    Folk Music At Newport Part 1, Vanguard
  • Instrumental: Sugarfoot Rag Coteau
    Highly Seasoned Cajun Music, Rounder
  • Newport Waltz The Balfa Brothers
    Play Traditional Cajun Music, Swallow
  • Hey, Tite Fille Clifton Chenier
    The King of Zydeco Live at Montreux, Arhoolie
  • Maria Christiana Los Lobos
    Good Morning Aztlan, Mammoth
  • (Title Unknown) Tito Puente
    Live recording from American Roots July 4th Concert,
  • Festival Junction Duke Ellington
    Ellington At Newport 1956 - Complete, Sony

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Lonesome Fiddle Blues Vassar Clements, Jerry Garcia, David Grisman, John Kahn & Peter Rowan
    Old and In the Way: That High Lonesome Sound, Acoustic Disc
  • Mr. Tambourine Man Bob Dylan
    Bob Dylan Live 1966: The Royal Albert Hall Concert, Sony
  • Forked Deer/Eighth of January Eck Robertson with the New Lost City Ramblers
    Folk Music at Newport Part 1, Vanguard
  • The Legend of Bonnie & Clyde Tammy Wynette
    D-I-V-O-R-C-E, Koch
  • SEGMENT: Bonnie & Clyde Festival

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  • Frankie & Johnny Jimmy Anderson
    House Rockin' & Hip Shakin' Vol.4: Bayou Blues Harp, Hip-O
  • Samson & Delilah Rev. Gary Davis
    Gospel at Newport, Vanguard
  • Instrumental: Pickin' The Devil's Eye Fiddlers 4
    Fiddlers 4, Compass
  • SEGMENT: National Folk Festival in Bangor, ME with Sarah Gertrude Knot and Joe Wilson

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  • Kokomo Blues Bonnie Raitt
    Philadelphia Folk Festival 40th Anniversary, Sliced Bread
  • Hip Shakin' Mama Cookie Gabriel
    The Sounds of New Orleans Vol.10, WWOZ
  • Instrumental: Cross Road Blues Marcus Roberts
    Blues For The New Millennium, Columbia
  • Nutty Thelonious Monk
    Miles Davis & Thelonious Monk Live at Newport 1958 &1963, Sony
  • End Bed: Line for Lyons Gerry Mulligan Quartet with Chet Baker
    Gerry Mulligan Quartet/Chubby Jackson Big Band, Fantasy

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