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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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JOHN MEDESKI & DIRTY DOZEN

October 11th, 2000

Nick talks with John Medeski, keyboardist of the New York jazz phenomenon Medeski, Martin and Wood. Medeski produced the recent CD “Buck Jump” for the Dirty Dozen Brass Band. We’ll also hear from members of the Dirty Dozen, the fathers of the New Orleans brass band renaissance.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: The Lover Medeski Martin & Wood
    Friday Afternoon in the Universe, Ryko
  • Olde Wine AFO Executives
    Gumbo Stew, Ace
  • Hey Pocky Way The Meters
    Very Best of The Meters, Rhino
  • Low Side of the Road Tom Waits
    Mule Variations, Epitaph
  • Moanin' at Midnight Howlin' Wolf
    Chess Box, MCA
  • Maybe Your Baby Done Made Some Other Plans Stevie Wonder
    Talking Book, Motown
  • Instrumental: Alligator Boogaloo Lou Donaldson
    Blue 45s, Blue Note
  • INTERVIEW: John Medeski
  • Chinoiserie Duke Ellington
    The Afro-Eurasian ECLIP:se, Fantasy
  • That Old Sweet Roll (Hi-De-Ho) Dusty Springfield
    Dusty in Memphis, Rhino
  • Instrumental: Tennessee Waltz King Curtis
    The Capitol Years, 1962-65, Bear Family
  • The Sun Keeps Shining Everly Brothers
    Classic Everly Brothers, Bear Family
  • Paper Wings Gillian Welch
    Revival, Almo
  • Paper Doll Mills Brothers
    The Best of the Decca Years, Decca

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Original Jelly-Roll Blues Jelly Roll Morton
    Jelly Roll Morton, Vol. 2: The Red Hot Peppers, Smithsonian
  • Big Legs, Tight Skirt John Lee Hooker
    The Ultimate Collection, MCA
  • Miniskirt Minnie Sir Mack Rice
    The Complete Stax, Atlantic
  • Don't You Make Me High Blue Lu Barker
    1938-39, Classics
  • Blue Monk Thelonius Monk
    Thelonius Monk, Fantasy
  • Instrumental: Blue Monk Bill Frisell and Fred Hersch
    Songs We Know, Nonesuch
  • INTERVIEW: Dirty Dozen
  • Culture in the Ghetto Soul Rebels
    Let Your Mind Be Free, Mardi Gras
  • Every Ghetto, Every City Lauryn Hill
    The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, Sony
  • Instrumental: The Ghetto Lonnie Pitchford
    All Around Man, Rooster
  • My Babe Lonnie Pitchford
    All Around Man, Rooster
  • Honey Please Don't Go Doc Watson
    Third Generation Blues, Sugar Hill
  • Give Me Back My Wig John Dee Holeman
    Bull Durham Blues, Music Maker
  • She's About a Mover Doug Sahm
    The Best of Doug Sahm and the Sir Douglas Quintet, Mercury
  • Blues Stay Away from Me Doug Sahm
    Doug Sahm and Band, Atlantic
  • I'm Coming Home Clifton Chenier
    King of the Bayous, Arhoolie
  • End Bed: Fe Fe Poncheaux The Savoy-Doucet Cajun Band
    Live! At the Dance, Arhoolie

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