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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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MUSIC FOR EASTER, PASSOVER AND SPRING - AND CONVERSATION WITH REV. AL GREEN

March 28th, 2018

Spring is in the air! We explore the vernal season and its garden of delights with meditative jazz, soul serenades and sunny reggae rhythms. Reverend Al Green tells about growing up in rural Arkansas, how music saves souls and his journey from the stage to the pulpit. Plus bunny hops, bops and boogies; Easter parades; songs of rebirth and romance; and jazz & Jamaican celebrations of Passover.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Strawberry Soul Willie Mitchell
    Soul Serenade, Capitol
  • Love & Happiness Al Green
    Anthology, Hi
  • Take Me to the River Talking Heads
    Sand in the Vaseline, Sire
  • The Preacher Horace Silver
    The Blue Note Years, Blue Note
  • Backwoods Preacher Man Tony Joe White
    The Best of Tony Joe White, Warner
  • Instrumental: The Preacher Jimmy Smith
    The Master, Blue Note
  • SEGMENT: Al Green

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  • Feast of the Passover Lee Scratch Perry
    Arkology, Island
  • The Israelites Desmond Dekker and the Aces
    The Harder They Come, Island
  • Rivers of Babylon The Melodians
    The Harder They Come, Island
  • Elijah Dorothy Love Coates
    The Great Gospel Women, Schanachie
  • Instrumental: Go Down Moses Grant Green
    Jazz Profile, Blue Note
  • SEGMENT: Steven Bernstein
  • Manishtana Steven Bernstein
    Diaspora Soul, Tzadik
  • Do Lord Preservation Hall Brass Band
    In the Sweet Bye and Bye, Sony
  • Closing Bed: Ya'aleh Andy Statman and David Grisman
    New Shabbos Waltz, Acoustic Disc

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Easter Parade Oscar Peterson
    The Song is You, Verve
  • Easter Parade Judy Garland
    Her Greatest Movie Hits, Rhino
  • Easter Parade Fats Domino
    Out of New Orleans, Bear Family
  • I'm Putting All My Eggs In One Basket Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong
    Cheek to Cheek: The Irving Berlin Songbook, Verve
  • Big Butter & Egg Man Kermit Ruffins
    Big Butter & Egg Man, Justice
  • Instrumental: Dead Ranch Bill Frisell
    Bill Frisell Quartet, Nonesuch
  • Resurrection Blues Cassandra Wilson
    Traveling Miles , Blue Note
  • Love Ritual Al Green
    Anthology , Hi
  • SEGMENT: Al Green Part II

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  • Instrumental: I Said No Sé
    Quelle Aventure, Instinct
  • Easter Bunny Boogie Willie Brown
    Jumpin' the Blues, Ace
  • The Bunny Mitchell Froom
    Dopamine, Atlantic
  • SEGMENT: Rabbits
  • Excerpt: Bunny Hop Mary Ann Meanus and Verbena Green
    Heartbeat: Voices of First Nations Women, Smithsonian
  • Excerpt: Peter Cottontail Gene Autry
    The Gene Autry Collection , Rhino
  • Excerpt: Rabbit Foot Blues Blind Lemon Jefferson
    Anthology of American Folk Music, Smithsonian
  • Old Uncle Rabbit Hettie Godfrey
    Afro-American Blues and Game Songs, Rounder
  • Rabbit Blues Smokey Babe
    Shake 'em Down: The Real Country Blues, Arhoolie
  • Spring is Here Charlie Byrd
    The Savoy Story, Savoy
  • When the Springtime Comes Again The Carter Family
    When the Roses Bloom In Dixieland, Rounder
  • Spring & All Greg Brown
    Slant 6 Mind, Red House
  • Closing Bed: Sand Hill Cranes Recorded by Carolyn Johnsen of Nebraska Public Radio
  • Closing Bed: Flying The Beatles
    Magical Mystery Tour, Apple

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