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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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FIRE AND WATER: HERBIE HANCOCK & THE NEVILLE BROTHERS

April 16th, 2008

Jazz pianist Herbie Hancock joins us to talk about keeping his hardcore jazz credentials while breaking the pop barrier with “Watermelon Man.” Hancock recalls famous associations with Miles and more, including those on his recent Record of the Year, River: the Joni Letters, a collection of Joni Mitchell tunes. Plus the four faces of New Orleans’ Mount Rushmore—Art, Aaron, Charles and Cyril—the Neville Brothers. Since 1954, when Brother Art hit with the ultimate carnival classic “Mardi Gras Mambo,” the Nevilles have been on the scene, solo or as a group. We’ll hear their legacy of soul, funk and R & B as the brothers tell us how it all came to pass, and how the legacy lives on in the next generation with Ivan and Ian Neville.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Fire on the Bayou The Neville Brothers
    Fiyo on the Bayou, A&M
  • Hey Pocky Way The Neville Brothers
    Fiyo on the Bayou, A&M
  • Cha Dooky-Doo Art Neville
    Mardi Gras Rock 'n Roll, Specialty
  • Tell It Like It Is Aaron Neville
    The Very Best of Aaron Neville, A&M
  • Post: Angola Bound Aaron Neville
    The Very Best of Aaron Neville, A&M
  • Instrumental: Drums On Fire Donald Harrison Jr.
    Big Chief Donald Harrison, Jr. presents The New Sounds of Mardi Gras, FOMP
  • Post: Indian Red The Wild Tchoupitoulas
    The Wild Tchoupitoulas, Mango
  • Meet De Boys on De Battlefront The Wild Tchopitoulas
    The Wild Tchopitoulas, Mango
  • Brother John The Wild Tchoupitoulas
    The Wild Tchoupitoulas, Mango
  • Fire on the Bayou The Neville Brothers
    Fiyo on the Bayou, A&M
  • Instrumental: Healing Chant The Neville Brothers
    Yellow Moon, A&M
  • Voo Doo The Neville Brothers
    Yellow Moon, A&M
  • Post: Sister Rosa The Neville Brothers
    Yellow Moon, A&M
  • My Blood The Neville Brothers
    Yellow Moon, A&M
  • Big Chief Cyril and Charles Neville, Allen Toussaint, with Paul Schaefer orchestra
    From the Big Apple to the Big Easy: The Concert for New Orleans DVD, Rhino
  • Amazing Grace The Neville Brothers
    From the Big Apple to the Big Easy: The Concert for New Orleans DVD, Rhino
  • End Bed: Wild Injuns The Neville Brothers
    Yellow Moon, A&M

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Maiden Voyage Herbie Hancock
    Maiden Voyage, Blue Note
  • Watermelon Man Johnnie Taylor
    Wanted: One Soul Singer, Atlantic
  • Cantaloupe Island Hugh Masekela
    The Lasting Impression of Ooga Booga, Verve
  • Born to Be Blue George Shearing Quintet with Nancy Wilson
    The Swinging's Mutual, Capitol Jazz
  • Blue Cat Power
    Jukebox, Matador
  • Goodbye Pork Pie Hat Joni Mitchell
    Mingus, Asylum
  • Instrumental: Good Bye Pork Pie Hat Pentangle
    Light Flight: The Anthology, Castle
  • A Sailboat in the Moonlight Billie Holiday
    Lady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia 1933-1944, Columbia
  • How Deep is the Ocean Lonnie Johnson
    The Complete Folkways Recordings, Smithsonian Folkways
  • Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea George Harrison
    Brainwashed, Capitol
  • I'll Sail My Ship Alone Jerry Lee Lewis
    Classic, Bear Family
  • Instrumental: River Herbie Hancock
    River: The Joni Letters, Verve
  • SEGMENT: Herbie Hancock

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  • Lay Lady Lay Cassandra Wilson
    Glamoured, Blue Note
  • Big Yellow Taxi Big Yellow Taxi
    Dylan, Columbia
  • End Bed: Both Sides Now Randy Scruggs
    Crown Of Jewels, Reprise

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    THE COLOR OF MUSIC WITH HENRY BUTLER & LONNIE HOLLEY

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