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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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A SONIC SEASON OF LIGHT & EVERGREENS

December 21st, 2016

Our “Sonic Season” includes Solstice, Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzza and Boxing Day. We celebrate with New Orleans Zion Harmonizers live in our studio. Woody Guthrie sings a Hanukkah song while Bob Dylan tells of “Three Angels.” We interview a black Santa about his Christmas days in Vietnam, and Bob Dorough sings “Blue Xmas,” the song he wrote for Miles Davis. Meanwhile, life in America goes on… in hopes and dreams that bring light to the darkness…

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Anji Simon & Garfunkel
    Sounds of Silence , Columbia
  • California Dreaming Bobby Womack
    Why Do Fools Fall in Love Soundtrack, Rhino
  • River Joni Mitchell
    Blue, Warner Reprise
  • Winterlude Joe Ely
    To Kate: A Benefit for Kate's Sake, Western Beat Records
  • Seasons of My Heart George Jones
    Cup of Loneliness, The Classic Mercury Years, Mercury
  • Baby It's Cold Outside Ray Charles and Betty Carter
    Ray Charles and Betty Carter/Dedicated to You, Rhino
  • I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm Billie Holiday
    Lady Day: The Best of Billie Holiday, Columbia/Legacy
  • Instrumental: The Hidden Light Andy Statman
    The Hidden Light, Sony Classical
  • On the King's Highway Andy Statman
    Old Brooklyn, Shefa
  • Abi Gezunt Klezmer Conservatory Band
    Oy Chanukah!, Rounder
  • Sleigh Ride Bela Kleck & the Flecktones
    Jingle All the Way, Rounder
  • Hanukkah Dance Woody Guthrie
    Hard Travelin': The Asch Recordings, Vol. 3, Smithsonian Folkways
  • Three Angels Bob Dylan
    New Morning, Columbia
  • Oh Little Town of Bethlehem Sister Rosetta Tharpe
    Have Yourself a Jazzy Little Christmas, Verve
  • Christmas Night in Harlem Louis Armstrong
    Hipster's Holiday: Vocal Jazz and R&B Classics, Rhino
  • Instrumental: Santa's Second Line New Birth Brass Band
    A New Orleans Christmas, Putomayo
  • Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning Mississippi Fred McDowell
    15 Down Home Gospel Classics , Arhoolie
  • We Free Kings Rahsaan Roland Kirk
    We Free Kings, Mercury
  • CLIP: Zion Harmonizers
  • End Bed: God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen Jimmy Smith
    Christmas Cookin' , Verve

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Christmas Blues Ramsey Lewis
    The Joy of Christmas Past, GNP
  • Faraway Christmas Blues Johnny Otis
    The Johnny Otis R&B Caravan/Complete Savoy Recordings , Savoy
  • Baltimore Oriole Bob Dorough
    Devil May Care, Bethlehem Archives
  • CLIP: Bob Dorough
  • Blue Christmas Lumineers
    Blue Christmas- Single, Lumineers
  • Merry Christmas Baby Charles Brown
    Blue Yule: Christmas Blues and R&B Classics , Rhino
  • Instrumental: Greensleeves Jimmy Smith
    Christmas Cookin' , Verve
  • Christmas in Vietnam Johnny & Jon
    Merry Christmas Baby, Ronn
  • SEGMENT: Chuck Siler
  • Santa Claus is Skating to Town Granville Williams Orchestra
    Natty and Nice, A Reggae Christmas, Rhino
  • Christmas Is A Coming Leadbelly
    Leadbelly Sings for Children, Smithsonian Folkways
  • J'ai Vu le Loup, Le Renard et la Belette Balfa Brothers
    Balfa Brothers Play More Traditional Music, Swallow
  • Bachata en Navidad La Sonara Matancera featuring Celia Cruz
    Celebremos Nochebuena con Sonora Matancera, Codigo Music
  • Feliz Navidad Los Straightjackets
    'Tis the Season for Los Straightjackets, Yep Roc
  • Instrumental: Sugar Rum Cherry (Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy) Duke Ellington
    Three Suites, Columbia
  • Sherburne (While Shephers Watched Their Flocks by Night) Sacred Harp Singers
    Songs of the Christmas fromt he Alan Lomax Collection, Rounder
  • Cherry Tree Carol Pentangle
    Solomon's Seal, Reprise
  • Greensleeves John Coltrane
    The Best of John Coltrane: His Greatest Years, Vol. 2, Impulse
  • O Day Bessie Johnes/ Georgia Sea Island Singers
    Songs of Christmas from the Alan Lomax Collection, Rounder
  • End Bed: Auld Lang Syne John Fahey
    John Fahey Christmas Soli, Fantasy

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