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ROCK AND SOUL FROM MEMPHIS TO MUSCLE SHOALS: CANDI STATON, SAM PHILLIPS AND BARBARA SIMS

This week on American Routes, we talk to Barbara Sims about her time working at Sun Studios as a publicist and promoter, and the search for the next Elvis. Then we dig into the archives for classic interviews with Sun’s founder Sam Phillips, Elvis’ sidemen DJ Fontana and Scotty Moore and the Killer, Jerry Lee Lewis. Then we head over to North Alabama for a conversation on love, God and music with soul and disco siren Candi Staton.

HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Don't Be Cruel Bill Black's Combo
    The Best of Bill Black's Combo: The Hi Records Years, Hi
  • That's All Right Arthur Crudup
    That's All Right Mama, RCA
  • Blue Moon of Kentucky Elvis Presley
    'Til Your River Runs Dry, ABKCO
  • SEGMENT: Sam Phillips

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  • Instrumental: Heartbreak Hotel Ace Cannon
    The Best of Ace Cannon: THe Hi Records Years, Hi
  • Matchbox Carl Perkins
    The Sun Records Collection, Rhino
  • Get Rhythm Johnny Cash
    The Sun Records Collection, Rhino
  • It'll Be Me Jerry Lee Lewis
    Sun Classics, Charly
  • SEGMENT: Barbara Sims

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  • Stranger in My Own Hometown Elvis Presley
    The Essential 70s Masters, RCA
  • Lonely Weekends Charlie Rich
    Lonely Weekends, Bear Family
  • Instrumental: Raunchy Bill Justis and His Orchestra
    The Sun Records Collection, Rhino
  • SEGMENT: Scotty Moore and DJ Fontana

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  • Milky White Way Elvis Presley
    Elvis Presley--His Hand in Mine, RCA
  • End Bed: Hound Dog Twist Whispering Smith
    House Rockin' and Hip Shakin' Vol. 4: Bayou Blues Harp, Hip-O

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Smokie Part II Bill Black Combo
    Hi Times: The Hi Records R&B Years, Hi
  • That's How I Got to Memphis Solomon Burke
    Nashville, Shout
  • Take that Night Train to Memphis Jerry Lee Lewis
    Sun Classics, Charly
  • You Win Again Jerry Lee Lewis
    Sun Classics, Charly
  • SEGMENT: Jerry Lee Lewis

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  • Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On Big Maybelle
    The Complete Okey Sessions 1952-'55, Epic/Okeh
  • Shake Otis Redding
    Otis Blue, Volt/Atco
  • Instrumental: The Crawl Willie Mitchell
    Hi Times: The Hi Records R&B Years, Hi
  • SEGMENT: Rufus Thomas

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  • Dark End of the Street James Carr
    The Essential James Carr, Razor & Tie
  • Let's Stay Together Al Green
    Hi TImes: The Hi Records R&B Years, Hi
  • Instrumental: Teenie's Dream Willie Mitchell
    Hi Times: The Hi Records R&B Years, Hi
  • Slip Away Clarence Carter
    The Muscle Shoals Sound, Rhino
  • SEGMENT: Candi Staton

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  • Hey Jude Wilson Picket
    The Muscle Shoals Sound, Rhino
  • End Bed: Soul Serenade Willie Mitchell
    Hi Times: The Hi Records R&B Years, Hi

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