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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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MOTOR CITY MUSIC OF DETROIT

July 20th, 2011

American Routes cruises the musical map of Detroit, catching the sights and sounds of the Motor City. From Hamtramck to Dearborn, we’ll meet the proud people who made the cars and played the bars. Jazz modernist Yusef Lateef tells of his time on the assembly line. Smokey Robinson talks about growing up with Motown’s future stars. We’ll learn how to construct a hit record from Motown studio insiders, then visit a raccoon hunters club, known for bluegrass jams. Plus rockabilly stars, dream cars and polka bands… all from Detroit.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: The Huckle-Buck Paul Williams and his Hucklebuckers
    The R&B Box: 30 Years of Rhythm & Blues, Rhino
  • Motoring Martha Reeves &the Vandellas
    The Best of Martha Reeves & the Vandellas: Motown Milestones, Motown
  • Andre Williams is Moving Andre Williams is Moving
    Mr. Rhythm, Regency
  • SEGMENT: The Woodward Dream Cruise

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  • Rocket 69 Todd Rhodes and Orchestra
    Risque Rhythm: Nasty '50s R&B, Rhino
  • Henry Ford Invents Detroit Stan Freberg
    Tip of the Freberg: The Stan Freberg Collection 1951-1998, Rhino
  • I'm Wild About Horns on Automobile Fred Hall and His Sugar Babies
    Fred Hall and His Sugar Babies, Old Masters
  • SEGMENT: Ypsilanti Automotive Heritage Museum

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  • Instrumental: Ahunk Ahunk Thad Jones & Mel Lewis
    Blue Big Bands: A Swingin' Affair, Blue Note
  • SEGMENT: Smokey Robinson

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  • My Guy Mary Wells
    Motown Legends: You Beat Me To the Punch / My Guy, ESX
  • SEGMENT: Tony Newton and McKinley Jackson

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  • Instrumental: Radio Gang Serenade Radio Gang
    Radio Gang and Friends, Cady Did
  • Detroit City (I Want to Go Home) John Doe and the Sadies
    Country Club, Yep Roc
  • Greene County, Arkansas The Old South
    Greene County Arkansas, Old Homestead
  • SEGMENT: The Wayne County Racoon Hunters' Club

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  • One Piece at a Time Johnny Cash
    The Essential Johnny Cash, Columbia/ Legacy
  • End Bed: Turn it On Sonny Stitt
    Legends of Acid Jazz, Prestige

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Detroit Blues Willie Williams
    Pepper's Jukebox, Numero
  • SEGMENT: Hamtramck Festival and Big Daddy Lackowski

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  • SEGMENT: Johnny Powers

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  • Little Latin Lupe Lu Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels
    Rev Up: The Best of Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels, Rhino
  • 96 Tears (Spanish Version) Question Mark and the Mysterians
    More Action, Cavestomp!
  • Instrumental: D.B. Blues Kenny Burrell
    Introducing Kenny Burrell, Blue Note
  • I Love the Way You Look Johnnie Bassett
    The Gentleman is Back, Sly Dog
  • Bags' Groove Milt Jackson
    The Blue Note Years, Blue Note
  • SEGMENT: Yusef Lateef

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  • Instrumental: Down to the River James Carter
    In Carterian Fashion, Atlantic
  • Boogie Chillen John Lee Hooker
    Hooker, Shout! Factory
  • Motor City is Burning MC5
    Thunder Express, Jungle
  • SEGMENT: Red's Jazz Shoe Shine Parlor

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  • How I Got Over Aretha Franklin
    Spirit in the Dark, Rhino
  • EndBed: Jewell Praise Calvin Cooke
    Heavan, Dare
  • Remarks by Reverend C.L. Franklin C.L. Franklin
    Amazing Grace: The Complete Recordings, Rhino
  • Spirit in the Dark Aretha Franklin
    Spirit in the Dark, Rhino

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