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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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EARTH & BLOOD: JAMES BLOOD ULMER & TRACY NELSON

July 11th, 2012

Elemental blues, jazz and country from two performers with deep roots and cosmic connections. In the ’60s, young Tracy Nelson left the midwest for psychedelic San Francisco to front the R & B rock band, Mother Earth. Now deep in the Tennessee hills, she’s looking back to country sounds. From South Carolina to deep space, guitarist James “Blood” Ulmer takes us on his journey from childhood gospel to free form harmolodic jazz with Ornette Coleman. Blood now brings it all to bear on a brutal, personal version of the blues.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Mother Earth Tracy Nelson
    Mother Earth: Livin' with the Animals, Wounded Bird
  • Everything I Do Gonna Be Funky Michael Doucet
    From Now On, Smithsonian Folkways
  • Snatch It Back and Hold It Junior Wells and Buddy Guy
    Hoodoo Man Blues, Delmark
  • I Need Your Love So Bad Irma Thomas
    The Irma Thomas Collection, Razor & Tie
  • Baptized in Dirty Water Chris Thomas King
    Rise, 21st Century Blues
  • Instrumental: Blues on Purpose Nina Simone
    In Concert: I Put a Spell on You, Mercury
  • Mother Earth Memphis Slim
    Chess Blues-Rock Songbook, MCA/ Chess
  • Down So Low Tracy Nelson
    Mother Earth: Livin' with the Animals, Wounded Bird
  • SEGMENT: Tracy Nelson

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  • Instrumental: Rose Time Merle Travis
    Walkin' The Strings, Capitol
  • Tennessee Blues The Sir Douglas Band
    Texas Tornado, Collector's Choice
  • Funny How Time Slips Away Dorothy Moore
    Misty Blue, Malaco
  • Stand by Your Man Merlene Webber
    Trojan Reggae Sisters, Trojan
  • That's Entrainment Van Morrison
    Keep It Simple, Lost Highway
  • Don't Give Up on Me Solomon Burke
    Don't Give Up on Me, Epitath

HOUR two

  • Ramblin' Ornette Coleman
    Beauty is a Rare Thing: The Complete Atlantic Recordings, Rhino
  • Shake 'Em On Down R.L. Burnside
    Too Bad Jim, Fat Possum
  • Hound Dog Albert King
    Blues for Elvis: King does the King's Things, Stax
  • Home of the Blues Dwight Yoakam
    Buenas Noches from a Lonely Room, Reprise
  • Instrumental: Don't Let Your Deal Go Down Etta Baker
    Railroad Bill, Sire
  • South Carolina Rag Willie Walker
    The Roots of Rap, Yazoo
  • Ezekial Saw the Wheel The Dixie Hummingbirds
    Thank You For One More Day, Peacock
  • SEGMENT: James Blood Ulmer

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  • Instrumental: Rib Joint Sammy Price and the 'Rock' Band with King Curtis & Mickey Baker
    Rib Joint, Savoy Jazz
  • Willie and Laura Mae Jones Shelby Lynne
    Just a Little Lovin', Lost Highway
  • I Heard it Through the Grapevine Bill Frisell
    East/ West, Nonesuch
  • End Bed: Closer Walk with Thee/ I Know Michael Doucet
    From Now On, Smithsonian Folkways

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