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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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RANDY NEWMAN

May 12th, 1999

The world of Randy Newman — from Beethoven to Gershwin, rednecks and short people, L.A. to LA — as we speak with him at his home studio in Pacific Palisades. Plus music by Cassandra Wilson, Buck Owens, Slim Harpo, and Art Blakey.

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HOUR ONE

  • Eh, 'Tite Fille Clifton Chenier
    Louisiana Blues & Zydeco, Arhoolie
  • Grey Eagle Allison Krauss
    Live at Carnegie Hall for the Folk Masters series,
  • Rag Mama Rag The Band
    Across the Great Divide, Capitol
  • Prelude #2 Gil Shaham & Andre Previn
    American Scenes, Deutsche Grammophone
  • How Long Has This Been Going On? Ella Fitzgerald
    Ella: The Legendary Decca Recordings, Decca
  • Instrumental: Prelude in C# Minor Herbie Hancock
    Gershwin's World, Verve
  • INTERVIEW: Randy Newman #1
  • Liza Jimmie Noone and his Orchestra
    I Got Rhythm, Smithsonian Collection
  • Mr. 9 O'Clock New Orleans Klezmer Allstars
    Fresh Out The Past, Shanachie
  • Something's Wrong With This Picture Galactic
    Ain't No Funk Like N.O. Funk, Bullseye
  • Instrumental: Sunny Jimmy Smith
    Talkin' Verve Groovy!, Verve
  • Instrumental Randy Newman (# 2)
  • My Country Randy Newman
    Bad Love, Dreamworks
  • You Are My Sunshine Jimmie Davis
    Greatest Hits, Finest Performances, Sun
  • I'll Keep Sittin' On It Georgia White
    Men Are Like Street Cars...Women Blues Singers 1928-1969, MCA

HOUR two

  • Cleve Van Valen Alfred Newman
    How the West Was Won Soundtrack, Rhino
  • Let's Go Get Stoned Ray Charles
    Genius & Soul: The 50th Anniversary Collection, Rhino
  • Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 Bob Dylan
    Greatest Hits, Columbia
  • Save The Last Dance for Me Buck Owens
    Together Again/My Heart Skips A Beat, Sundazed
  • Shake Your Hips Slim Harpo
    The Best of Slim Harpo, Hip-O
  • Love Struck Baby Stevie Ray Vaughan
    The Real Deal: Hits Vol.2, Columbia
  • Instrumental: Lord Have Mercy John Fahey
    Return of the Repressed: The John Fahey Anthology, Rhino
  • I Been 'Buked from Alvin Ailey's "Revelations" chorus conducted by Joseph Joubert
    Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, V2
  • Moanin' Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers
    The Blue Note Years Vol. 2: The Jazz Message, Blue Note
  • Hang On To Your Pride Family Tree
    Explorations, Ubiquity
  • Young, Gifted and Black The Heptones
    Sea of Love, Heartbeat
  • Instrumental: Moanin' Buddy Guy
    The Complete Chess Studio Recordings, Chess/MCA
  • Blue Skies Cassandra Wilson
    Cheek to Cheek: The Irving Berlin Songbook, Verve
  • Blue Monday Fats Domino
    Out of New Orleans, Bear Family
  • INTERVIEW: Randy Newman (#3)
  • Ragtime Randy Newman
    30 Years: Guilty, Rhino

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