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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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TRANSCENDING NEW ENGLAND

October 9th, 2002

We travel the New England soundsacpe from rural dances to urban folk clubs, from Maine truckdriving songs to regional rock. Also music from Boston Irish and Italians, French Quebecois and Cape Verdean Portuguese. Plus stories from eel fishermen and cranberry farmers, urban gardeners and country fiddlers. Massachusetts-raised troubadour Jonathan Richman stops in from the road to converse, and author Peter Guralnick reminisces about how the blues found him in New England.

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HOUR ONE

  • Farewell to Whiskey / Silver and Gold Two-Step Rodney Miller's N.E. Dance Band
    Choose Your Partners!: Contra & Square Dance Music of New Hampshire, Folkways
  • Postcard Lawrence Cole
  • Redwing Marcel Robidas
    Mademoiselle, Voulez-Vous Danser?, Folkways
  • Tombstone Every Mile Dick Curless
    Tombstone Every Mile, Capitol
  • On the Road Again Tom Rush
    The Best of Tom Rush: No Regrets, Columbia/Legacy
  • Dirty Water Standells
    Nuggets from Nuggets, Rhino
  • Instrumental: Boston Boy Ricky Skaggs
    Ancient Tones, Skaggs Family
  • The Boston Burglar Delia Murphy
    From Galway To Dublin: Early Recordings of Irish Traditional Music, Rounder
  • Miss Bruce / The Absentminded Man / Welcome to Cork Joe Derrane w/ Felix Dolan
    Give Us Another, Green Linnet
  • Clay Pipe Medley Joe Cormier
    The Art of the Fiddle, Rounder
  • INTERVIEW: Peter Guralnick

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  • Harvard Blues Jimmy Rushing
    Rushing Lullabyes/Little Jimmy Rushing and the Big Brass, Columbia/Legacy
  • Sweet Woman (From Maine) Robert Junior Lockwood
    Blues Masters Volume 2: Postwar Chicago Blues, Rhino
  • Postcard Bertha McCrarey on gardening in Boston
  • Instrumental: Morna Di Freddie Toi Grace & The Verdatones
    So Sabi: Cape Verdean Music From New England, Rounder
  • The ‘Saint-Gaudens' In Boston Common Bill Frisell
    Have A Little Faith, Elektra
  • Moonlight In Vermont Billie Holiday
    Songs for Distingué Lovers, Verve
  • Moondance Van Morrison
    Moondance, Polydor

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Hornpipe For Harpsichord Played Upon Guitar Davy Graham
    Fire in the Soul, Topic
  • Postcard Milton Jeffers on how to catch and cook eels
  • La Pied du Mouton Larry & Henry Riendeau
    The Art of Traditional Fiddle, Rounder
  • Postcard Lucien Mathieu on practicing fiddle
  • Entre Moi Chanterelle w/Josie Vachon
    Mademoiselle, Voulez-Vous Danser?, Smithsonian Folkways
  • So Sabi Creole Sextet and Joe Livramento
    So Sabi: Cape Verdean Music from New England, Rounder
  • Señor Blues Horace Silver
    Blue Note Years 1939-1999, Blue Note
  • Instrumental: Banned In Boston Illinois Jacquet
    Illinois Jacquet, Sony
  • Postcard Parading with Boston Italians
  • Root Hog and Die Woody Guthrie
    Ballads of Sacco & Vanzetti, Folkways
  • Baby Let Me Follow You Down Bob Dylan
    Bob Dylan, Sony
  • Pal of Mine Joan Baez
    Joan Baez Vol.2, Vanguard
  • Love Me Like a Man Bonnie Raitt
    Give It Up, Warner
  • Give It To Me The J. Geils Band
    Anthology: Houseparty, Rhino
  • Instrumental: I Know You Morphine
    Good, Ryko
  • No Good to Cry The Wildweeds
    45rpm,
  • New England Jonathan Richman
    The Best of Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers, Rhino
  • SEGMENT: Jonathan Richman

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  • End Bed: Roadrunner Jonathan Richman
    Radio On!, Snapper

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