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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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HARD TIMES AND HONKY TONKS: DALE WATSON, GILLIAN WELCH AND DAVID RAWLINGS

July 25th, 2012

The sounds may seem old but the songs are not. This week on American Routes we visit with a few musicians who are known for crafting modern country music from old-time inspirations. Gillian Welch and David Rawlings share with us how they fit “an electric peg into an acoustic hole.” Then conversation with Austin’s king of the honky-tonks, Dale Watson, who literally wears his musical inspirations on his sleeve.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Rocky Run Jerry Stuart, Pete Kuykendall, Smiley Hobbs & Tom Gray
    Classic Bluegrass, vol. 2, Smithsonian Folkways
  • Blame it All On Nashville Pee Wee King
    Country Cowboy Classics, Goldenlane
  • Nashville Cats The Lovin' Spoonful
    Hums of the Lovin' Spoonful, Buddha
  • Blue The Louvin Brothers
    Country Love Ballads, Capitol
  • Blues Stay Away From Me Doug Sahm and Band
    Doug Sahm and Band, Atlantic
  • When My Blue Moon Turns to Gold Again Big Al Downing
    Heavy Sugar: The Pure Essence of New Orleans R&B, Fantastic Voyage
  • Instrumental: John Henry/ Worried Blues Doc & Merle Watson
    Guitar Album, Flying Fish
  • SEGMENT: Gillian Welch & David Rawlings

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  • Unknown Blues Tarter & Gay
    The Bristol Sessions: The Big Bang of Country Music 1927-1928, Bear Family
  • Tennessee Jed Grateful Dead
    Europe '72, Warner Bros.
  • Instrumental: Hard Times Stanley Brothers
    Friend of Old Time Music: The Folk Arrival 1961-1965, Folkways
  • Hard Travelin' Woody Guthrie
    My Dusty Road, Rounder
  • Elvis Presley Blues Gillian Welch
    Time the Revelator, Acony
  • When My Blue Moon Turns to Gold Again Elvis Presley
    The King of Rock 'N' Roll: The Complete 50's Masters, RCA
  • Hard Times Come Again No More Mavis Staples
    Beautiful Dreamer: Songs of Stephen Foster, American Roots
  • Sugar Mountain Neil Young
    Decade, Reprise
  • End Bed: One of These Days Bill Frisell
    Nashville, Nonesuch

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Pedal Paddle Lloyd Green
    The Little Darlin' Sound of Lloyd Green, KOCH
  • Settin' the Woods on Fire Hank Williams
    The Complete Hank Williams, Mercury
  • Around and Around Chuck Berry
    His Best, Volume 1, MCA/ Chess
  • I Love to Rock n Roll Eddie Bo
    Heavy Sugar: The Pure Essence of New Orleans R&B, Fantastic Voyage
  • Moran Tonk Circa 1936 Jason Moran
    Modernistic, Blue Note
  • Don't You Know Ray Charles
    Genius & Soul: the 50th Anniversary Collection, Rhino
  • Instrumental: Honky Tonk King Curtis
    The Best of King Curtis, Capitol
  • Stomp and Holler Hayes Carll
    KMAG YOYO & Other American Stories, Lost Highway
  • Maggie's Farm Bob Dylan
    Bringing It All Back Home, Columbia
  • Country Boy Johnny Cash
    The Man in Black: 1954-1958, Sony
  • SEGMENT: Dale Watson

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  • Instrumental: Honky Tonk Clarence Gatemouth Brown
    The Man, Verve
  • Everybody's Movin' Glen Glenn
    Glen Rocks, Bear Family
  • Boogie Woogie Country Girl Big Joe Turner
    Definitive Blues Collection, Rhino
  • Sister's Coming Home/Down at the Corner Beer Joint Willie Nelson
    Phases and Stages, Atlantic
  • Close Up the Honky Tonks Buck Owens
    The Buck Owens Collection 1959-1990, Rhino
  • Paper Wings Gillian Welch
    Revival, Almo Sounds
  • End Bed: Last Date Floyd Cramer
    RCA Country Legends, Buddha

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