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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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THE SOUNDS OF SOLACE

November 7th, 2001

Many have sought solace in music since the sadness and conflict of September 11. American Routes honors Veterans of war, fire, and emergency service with music appropriate to the nation’s mood on this Veteran’s Day. Merle Haggard, Gillian Welch and American Routes listeners tell us what songs have helped them get through this fall, and we’ll hear meditative songs from John Coltrane, the Carter Family and Jimmy Cliff.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Amazing Grace Donald Harrison
    Nouveau Swing, Impluse
  • Acknowledgement John Coltrane
    A Love Supreme, Impulse
  • The House I Live In The Ravens
    Old Man River, Savoy
  • My Father's House Bruce Springsteen
    Nebraska, Sony
  • No Depression In Heaven Carter Family
    In The Shadow of Clinch Mountain, Bear Family
  • Instrumental: Amazing Grace John Fahey
    America, Takoma
  • SEGMENT: Gillian Welch

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  • Revelator Gillian Welch
    Time (The Revelator), Acony
  • Jesus is a Dying Bedmaker John Fahey
    America, Takoma
  • Amazing Grace Cephas & Wiggins
    recorded live for Folkmasters,
  • Instrumental: Over the Rainbow Art Tatum
    Ultimate Art Tatum, Verve
  • Please Send Me Someone To Love James Booker
    New Orleans Piano Wizard: Live!, Rounder
  • Going Home Randy Newman
    Bad Love, Dreamworks
  • Balm in Gilead Paul Robeson
    Songs of Free Men 1940-1945, Pearl
  • Remember Me Beaufort NC Sea Chanteymen
    recorded live for Folkmasters,

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Follow Your Heart Joe Farrell Quartet/John McLaughlin
    Joe Farrell Quartet, CTI
  • In a Silent Way Miles Davis
    In a Silent Way, Sony
  • Let It Be Aretha Franklin
    Queen of Soul - The Atlantic Recordings, Atlantic
  • Many Rivers to Cross Jimmy Cliff
    The Harder They Come Original Soundtrack, Island
  • Rivers of Babylon The Melodians
    The Harder They Come Original Soundtrack, Island
  • Instrumental: Could You Be Loved Monty Alexander
    Stir It Up: The Music of Bob Marley, TelArc
  • Freedom Road Josh White
    Free and Equal Blues, Folkways
  • Chimes of Freedom Bob Dylan
    Another Side of Bob Dylan, Sony
  • This World Is Not My Home Monroe Brothers
    What Would You Give…?, Rounder
  • SEGMENT: Merle Haggard

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  • Instrumental: Schizoozy Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer, Mark O'Connor
    Appalachia Waltz, Sony Classical
  • String Quartet No.4 (Amazing Grace) Ben Johnston/Kronos Quartet
    Released 1985-1995, Nonesuch
  • Imagine Neil Young
    recorded live for America: A Tribute to Heroes,
  • My Country ‘Tis of Thee Billy Preston
    I Wrote A Simple Song, A&M
  • End Bed: The Long Road Eddie Vedder with Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
    Music From and Inspired by the Motion Picture Dead Man Walking, Columbia

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