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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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WATER - DOC CHEATHAM & NICHOLAS PAYTON

April 1st, 1998

April showers here in New Orleans and the Gulf South with a flow of music about water, rivers, weather and…. matters of the heart. We’ll talk with jazz trumpeter Nicholas Payton about his recent Grammy with his musical partner, the late Doc Cheatham.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Fiyo on the Bayou Neville Brothers
    Fiyo on the Bayou, A & M
  • Rollin' Stone Muddy Waters
    His Best 1947 to 1955, MCA/Chess
  • Long Gone Lonesome Blues Hank Williams
    The Original Singles Collection...Plus, Polydor
  • Watching The River Flow Bob Dylan
    Greatest Hits Volume 2, Columbia
  • Old Man River The Ravens
    Old Man River, Savoy Jazz
  • Deep River Blues Doc Watson
    The Vanguard Years, Vanguard
  • Feels Like Rain John Hiatt & the Goners
    Slow Turning, A & M
  • I Can't Stand the Rain Ann Peebles
    Hi Times - The Hi Records R & B Years, Hi
  • Instrumental: Riders on the Storm The Doors
  • One Rainy Wish Jimi Hendrix
    Axis: Bold As Love, MCA
  • Waiting For The Rain to Fall Chris Isaak
    Chris Isaak, Warner Brothers
  • Til I Die The Beach Boys
    Good Vibrations: Thirty Years of the Beach Boys, Capitol
  • INTERVIEW: Doc Cheatham & Nicholas Payton
    Doc Cheatham & Nicholas Payton,
  • How Deep Is The Ocean Doc Cheatham & Nicholas Payton
    Doc Cheatham & Nicholas Payton, Verve
  • Stardust Doc Cheatham & Nicholas Payton
    Doc Cheatham & Nicholas Payton, Verve
  • Out of Nowhere Doc Cheatham & Nicholas Payton
    Doc Cheatham & Nicholas Payton, Verve
  • Stormy Weather Billie Holiday
    The Collection, Verve
  • Blue Horizon Sidney Bechet
    The Best of Sidney Bechet, Blue Note

HOUR two

  • Blue Nile Alice Coltrane
    Ptah, The El Daoud, Impulse
  • The Sky is Crying Elmore James
    Essential Blues Guitar, House of Blues
  • Texas Flood Stevie Ray Vaughn
    Mojo Workin' - Blues for the Next Generation, Columbia/Legacy
  • Rain and Snow Obray Ramsey
    The Music Never Stopped - Roots of the Grateful Dead, Shanachie
  • Box of Rain Grateful Dead
    American Beauty, Warner Brothers
  • Instrumental: Singin' in the Rain
    Gene Kelly,
  • You Look Like Rain Morphine
    Good, Ryko
  • Can't Stop the Rain Los Lobos
    Colossal Head, Warner Brothers
  • I Wish It Would Rain Ike & Tina Turner
    Minit Records Story, Minit
  • Under a Falling Sky Bonnie Raitt
    Give It Up, Warner Brothers
  • Rainin in My Heart Slim Harpo
    Sound of the Swamp: The Best of Excello Records, Vol. 1, Rhino
  • Madeleine The Balfa Brothers
    The Balfa Brothers Play Traditional Cajun Music, Vol. 1 & 2, Swallow
  • Rain, Rain Louis Armstrong
    The Complete RCA Victor Recordings, RCA
  • Rainy Night in Georgia Ray Charles
    The Genius Hits the Road, Rhino
  • I Can See Clearly Now Johnny Nash
    Billboard Top Rock'n'Roll Hits - 1972, Rhino
  • End Bed: Wave McCoy Tyner
    Supertrios, Milestone

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