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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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SONGS OF RIVERS AND MOUNTAINS: JOAN SHELLEY AND JEFF LITTLE

August 12th, 2020

This week we visit with two Southern crafters of music and song. Kentucky native and guitarist Joan Shelley takes her ethereal songwriting and voicing of life’s emotional flow from observations on the banks of the Ohio River near Louisville. Then, the virtuosic Blue Ridge pianist Jeff Little shares his stories of growing up playing alongside the legendary flat-pick guitarist Doc Watson at the family’s music store in Boone, North Carolina. It led to a singular career of playing high speed fiddle tunes on the piano. Also music of love, loss, and fast trains with Bill Frisell, Johnny Cash, James Brown, Tom Waits and Elizabeth Cotton.

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HOUR ONE

  • Brighter Than the Blues Joan Shelley
    Over and Even, No Quarter
  • This Place Joni Mitchell
    Shine, Joni Mitchell
  • Lonesome Bill Frisell
    Harmony, Blue Note
  • Pretty Fair Miss in a Garden Doug and Jack Wallin
    Doug & Jack Wallin: Family Songs and Stories from the North Carolina Mountains, Smithsonian Folkways
  • Pretty Little Miss Joan Shelley and Doug Paisley
    Rivers and Vessels, No Quarter Records
  • Instrumental: Keep On the Sunnyside Bill Frisell
    Beautiful Dreamers, Savoy
  • Kentucky Everly Brothers
    Songs Our Daddy Taught Us, Barnaby Records
  • Blue Kentucky Girl Loretta Lynn
    Blue Kentucky Girl, MCA Nashville
  • Banks of the Ohio Johnny Cash
    Unearthed, American Recordings
  • SEGMENT: Joan Shelley

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  • Instrumental: Timoney's Nathan Salsburg
    Third Nathan Salsburg , No Quarter
  • Beat the Retreat June Tabor
    Beat the Retreat: Songs of Richard Thompson, Capitol
  • Urge for Going Tom Rush
    The Circle Game, Elektra
  • End Bed: Dandelion River Run Richard and Mimi FariƱa
    The Complete Vanguard Recordings , Vanguard

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Billy in the Low Ground Jeff Little
    Just a Little Music, self-released
  • Freight Train Boogie Doc Watson
    The Elementary Doctor Watson!, Tomato
  • Casey Jones Grateful Dead
    Workingman's Dead, Warner
  • Night Train James Brown
    The 50th Anniversary Collection, UTV
  • 2:19 Tom Waits
    Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards , -anti
  • Memphis Mail Scott Dunbar
    Voices of Mississippi: Artists and Musicians Documented by William Ferris, Dust to Digital
  • Instrumental: Big Sky Jeff Little
    Just a Little Music, self-released
  • SEGMENT: Jeff Little

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  • Going Back to the Blue Ridge Mountains The Delmore Brothers
    The Delmore Brothers, Vol. 2, Classic
  • (Oh Susanna) Dust off that Old Pianna Fats Waller
    The Essential Fats Waller, Sony
  • Chicken Shack Boogie Amos Milburn
    Down the Road Apiece-The Best of Amos Milburn, Capitol
  • Instrumental: Tipitina and Me Allen Toussaint
    Our New Orleans, Nonesuch
  • Take Five Dave Brubeck
    Time Out, Columbia
  • Brighter than the Blues Joan Shelley
    Over and Even, No Quarter
  • I'm Going Away Elizabeth Cotton
    Shake Sugaree, Smithsonian Folkways
  • Careless Love Snooks Eaglin
    Classic African American Songsters , Smithsonian Folkways
  • Closing bed: Careless Love Etta Baker
    Railroad Bill, Cello

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