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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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LOOKING FOR AMERICA: ELVIS COSTELLO AND CARLA BLEY

September 23rd, 2009

We’re seeking out the “American” in American music with two eclectic artists: Elvis Costello and Carla Bley. For British songman Elvis Costello, American music has shaped much of his musical creativity. We’ll hear about his love of American country and blues, his musical upbringing in Liverpool, and his current fascination with P.T. Barnum. For the inventive and eccentric jazz composer Carla Bley, the National Anthem proves an unlikely source of inspiration. Bley brings wry humor to a conversation about the challenges of writing for her very big bands, her early days as a cigarette girl in NYC jazz clubs, and why America might be famous for baked beans.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Brilliant Mistake Elvis Costello
    King of America , Rhino
  • Hidden Shame Elvis Costello
    Secret, Profane & Sugarcane , Hear Music
  • American Music The Blasters
    American Music , Hightone
  • Promised Land Chuck Berry
    His Best, Volume 2 , MCA/Chess
  • I've Been Everywhere Johnny Cash
    Unchained, American
  • I'm an Old Cowhand (From the Rio Grande) Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks
    Striking It Rich, MCA
  • Take Me Back to My Boots and Saddle Screamin' Jay Hawkins
    Cow Fingers and Mosquito Pie , Sony
  • Sulphur to Sugarcane Elvis Costello
    Secret, Profane & Sugarcane , Hear Music
  • Instrumental: Weeper's Dream Elvis Costello & The Attractions
    Trust, Rykodisc
  • INTERVIEW: Elvis Costello

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  • Nowhere To Go Allen Toussaint
    The Complete 'Tousan' Sessions , Bear Family
  • Dixie Flyer Randy Newman
    American Routes original recording,
  • Zipper: Latch On Fats Waller and His Rhythm
    Fractious Fingering / The Early Years Part 3, 1936 , BMG
  • Don't Stop the Music George Jones
    The Classic Mercury Years , Mercury
  • Blues à Catin Catin Bonsoir
    Blues à Catin, Bridgetown
  • Matchbox (I'm Gonna Forget About You) Ike Turner
    King Cobra / The Chicago Sessions , Fuel 2000
  • Cryin' Blues Charles Mingus
    Blues & Roots, Atlantic
  • End Bed: Tipitina Allen Toussaint
    American Routes original recording,

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Ida Lupino Paul Bley Trio
    Closer, ESP-Disk
  • I'm Nuts About Screwy Music Jimmie Lunceford & His Orchestra
    The Swinging Mr. Lunceford , Empress
  • Jump for Joy Herb Jeffries with Duke Ellington
    A Brief History of Herb Jeffries , Warner Bros.
  • INTERVIEW: Carla Bley

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  • Instrumental: H.C.Q. Strut Django Reinhardt & Stephane Grappelli
    The Ultimate Collection , Prism Leisure
  • You Gotta Pay the Band Abbey Lincoln & Stan Getz
    You Gotta Pay the Band , Gitanes Jazz
  • Falling Rain Blues Lonnie Johnson
    Lonnie Johnson: Complete Folkways Recordings, Smithsonian Folkways
  • I Love the Life I Live Mose Allison
    Retrospective , Columbia
  • If It Ain't Got that Swing The Modern Jazz Quartet
    The Modern Jazz Quartet , Warner Music France
  • Little Bells Paul Burch
    Still Your Man , Ramseur
  • Instrumental: California Cotillion Mike Seeger
    True Vine , Smithsonian Folkways
  • Fifty Miles of Elbow Room F.W. McGee
    The Anthology of American Music , Smithsonian Folkways
  • The Brakeman's Blues Jimmie Rodgers
    First Sessions, 1927-1928 , Rounder
  • Freight Train Elizabeth Cotten
    Freight Train and Other North Carolina Folk Songs and Tunes , Smithsonian Folkways
  • No Depression in Heaven The New Lost City Ramblers
    50 Years: Where Do You Come From? Where Do You Go?, Smithsonian Folkways
  • Roll On Son Volt
    American Central Dust , Rounder
  • End Bed: Fuller Blues Sam McGee
    Grand Dad of the Country Guitar Pickers , Arhoolie

THE LATEST STREAMS

  • February 1st, 2023

    HOME GROWN SOUL: JIMMY HUGHES AND BOOKER T. JONES

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  • January 25th, 2023

    NEW ORLEANS TRADITIONAL JAZZ LIVE WITH DR. MICHAEL WHITE AND THE ORIGINAL LIBERTY JAZZ BAND - JAZZ MANOUCHE FROM CHRISTINE TASSAN ET LES IMPOSTEURES

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  • January 18th, 2023

    THE COLOR OF MUSIC WITH HENRY BUTLER & LONNIE HOLLEY

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