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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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February 21st, 2001

The music of Mardi Gras across the Americas, with glances at the history and customs surrounding it, featuring the sounds of New Orleans’ famed celebration: brass bands, parades, Mardi Gras Indians, Creole cowboys and more. Music includes Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Ry Cooder, and Beau Jocque.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Do Whatcha Wanna - Pt. 3 Rebirth Brass Band
    Mardi Gras Party, Rhino
  • Louisiana Percy Mayfield
    Creole Kings of New Orleans, Speciality Records
  • New Orleans Elvis Presley
    King Creole, RCA
  • Jockamo AKA Iko-Iko Larry Williams
    Creole Kings of New Orleans, Speciality Records
  • Big Chief Rebirth Brass Band
    Hey Mardi Gras, Easy Disc
  • New-Way-Pocky-Way Young Guardians of the Flame
    New Way Pocky Way, First Tribe
  • Instrumental: Mardi Gras Zydeco Nathan and the Zydeco Cha-Chas
    Hey Mardi Gras, Easy Disc
  • La Danse de Mardi Gras Steve Riley
    Hey Mardi Gras, Easy Disc
  • Beau's Mardi Gras Beau Jocque
    Hey Mardi Gras, Easy Disc
  • Mascarade Folk Research Center of St. Lucia
    Musical Traditions of St. Lucia, Folkways
  • Quadrille Figure # 6 Blinky and the Roadmasters
    Crucian Scratch Band Music, Rounder
  • F.D.R. in Trinidad Ry Cooder
    Into the Purple Valley, Warner
  • The Road Lord Kitchener
    Volume 1 1959-1964: Ska's the Limit, Island
  • Meet de Boys on the Battlefront Wild Tchoupitoulas
    New Orleans Party Classics, Rhino
  • Instrumental: (Somebody Got) Soul, Soul, Soul Wild Magnolias
    The Wild Magnolias, Polydor
  • SEGMENT: Mardi Gras Indians

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  • Indian Red Donald Harrison, Jr.
    Indian Blues, Candid

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Longhair's Blues-Rhumba Professor Longhair
    New Orleans Piano, Atlantic
  • Mardi Gras Mambo The Meters
    Mardi Gras in the New Orleans II, Mardi Gras Records
  • Mambo # 8 Prez Prado
    A Carnival of Cuban Music: Routes to Rhythm Vol 1, Rounder
  • Siboney Xavier Cugat and Bing Crosby
    A Carnival of Cuban Music: Routes to Rhythm Vol 1, Rounder
  • Bamboula (Danse des negres) Amiram Rigai
    American Piano Music, Folkways
  • Mardi Gras in New Orleans Professor Longhair
    New Orleans Piano, Atlantic
  • Instrumental: New Second Line Olympia Brass
    Mardi Gras in the New Orleans II, Mardi Gras Records
  • SEGMENT: Mardi Gras Parades
  • Street Parade Earl King
    Mardi Gras in New Orleans, MG Records
  • Kooks on Parade Stanton Moore
    All Kooked Out, Fog City
  • Instrumental: Cuando Vuelvo A Tu Lado Alfredo Rodriguez
    Cuba Linda, Hannibal
  • La Fiesta Campesina Los Pleneros de la 21
    Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico, Shanachie
  • Maman Rosin Boudreax Beausoleil
    Mardi Gras Party, Rounder
  • Hot Tamale Baby Marcia Ball
    Hot Tamale Baby, Rounder
  • Tourist Leggo King Short Shirt
    Ghetto Vibes, Charlies Records
  • Little Liza Jane Dirty Dozen Brass Band
    New Orleans Party Classics,
  • SEGMENT: Clean Up Crew
  • End Bed: Tee-Nah-Nah Tuts Washington
    Louisiana Spice, Rounder

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