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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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April 21st, 2010

It’s a two-hour walk through streets of the city as we dive into two great eras of New Orleans music. First, it’s the 1940s and 50s R&B hit factory with studio man Cosimo Matassa, producer, arranger, trumpet player Dave Bartholomew, drummer Earl Palmer and more. There’s also a chat with The Meters—Art Neville, George Porter, Leo Nocentelli and Zigaboo Modeliste—in which we get to the bottom of the bottom, find out what’s in the pocket and get a definition of funk from the four men who continue to dish it out.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Fats Domino Blues and I'm in Love Again Fats Domino
    Out of New Orleans, Bear Family
  • Ain't it a Shame Fats Domino
    Out of New Orleans, Bear Family
  • CLIP: The Beginning
  • Country Boy Dave Bartholomew
    1947-1950, Jazz Classics
  • SEGMENT: Stardust

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  • Stardust Dave Bartholomew
    1947-1950, Jazz Classics
  • CLIP: The Studio Band
  • 3x7=21 Jewel King
    Genius of Dave Bartholomew, EMI
  • Instrumental: Dreaming Fats Domino
    Out of New Orleans, Bear Family
  • CLIP: The Fat Man
  • The Fat Man Fats Domino
    Out of New Orleans, Bear Family
  • Slippin' and Slidin' Little Richard
    The Specialty Sessions Box, Specialty
  • SEGMENT: Beat

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  • Rip it Up Little Richard
    The Specialty Sessions Box, Specialty
  • CLIP: I'm Walkin'
  • I'm Walkin' Fats Domino
    Out of New Orleans, Bear Family
  • CLIP: Sound
  • Let the Four Winds Blow Fats Domino
    Out of New Orleans, Bear Family
  • Instrumental: Blueberry Hill Mose Allison
    Back Country Suite, Prestige
  • CLIP: Blueberry Hill
  • Blueberry Hill Fats Domino
    Out of New Orleans, Bear Family
  • I'm Gonna be a Wheel Someday Fats Domino
    Out of New Orleans, Bear Family
  • Down The Road Smiley Lewis
    Shame, Shame, Shame, Bear Family
  • CLIP: On Smiley Lewis and Professor Longhair
  • One Night Elvis Presley
    1950s Masters, RCA
  • In the Night Professor Longhair
    New Orleans Piano, Atlantic
  • CLIP: Fats Success/ Live
  • Blue Monday Fats Domino
    Out of New Orleans, Bear Family
  • End Bed: Tipitina Allen Toussaint
    American Routes Original Recording,

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Chicken Strut and Fiyo On the Bayou The Meters
    Funkify Your Life Anthology, Rhino
  • A Message From the Meters The Meters
    Funkify Your Life Anthology, Rhino
  • SEGMENT: Beginnings

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  • Ease Back The Meters
    Funkify Your Life Anthology, Rhino
  • CLIP: House Band
  • Fortune Teller Benny Spellman
    Fortune Teller - Golden Classics, Collectables
  • Working In a Coal Mine Lee Dorsey
    Wheelin’ and Dealin’: The Definitive Collection, Arista
  • Everything I Do Gonna Be Funky From Now On Lee Dorsey
    Wheelin’ and Dealin’: The Definitive Collection, Arista
  • Instrumental: Cissy Strut Rod Piazza
    Bluesman, LMI
  • CLIP: Funk
  • I Been Hoodood Dr. John
    In the Right Place, ATCO
  • Sophisticated Cissy The Meters
    The Meters, Sundazed
  • CLIP: Cissy Strut
  • Cissy Strut The Meters
    The Meters, Sundazed
  • CLIP: Look-Ka-Py-Py
  • Look-Ka-Py-Py The Meters
    Look-Ka-Py-Py, Sundazed
  • CLIP: They All Asked for You
  • They All Asked for You The Meters
    Funkify Your Life Vol. 2, Rhino
  • Instrumental: Drums on Fire Donald Harrison Jr.
    Big Chief Donald Harrison, Jr. presents The New Sounds of Mardi Gras, FOMP
  • CLIP: Mardi Gras Indians/ Hey Pocky Way
  • Hey Pocky Way The Meters
    Rejuvenation, Sundazed
  • Here Dey Come Wild Tchoupitoulas
    Wild Tchoupitoulas, Island
  • SEGMENT: The Rolling Stones/ Paul McCartney

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  • Africa The Meters
    Uptown Rulers! Live on the Queen Mary, Rhino
  • CLIP: Breakup
  • Stormy The Meters
    The Meters, Sundazed
  • CLIP: Today/ Reunions
  • Cissy Strut (Live) The Meters
    Live Recording from 2005 New Orleans Jazz Fest,

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