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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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DRIFTING COWBOY BLUES WITH TEXAN CHARLEY CROCKETT & HOMELAND BLUEGRASS WITH VIRGINIAN LINDA LAY

October 12th, 2022

Charley Crockett from south Texas has risen to country stardom as a deep-voiced, drifting cowboy blues singer/guitarist with a well-traveled history of playing street corners, subway stops and honky-tonks. Charley talks about how music has sustained him in the rough life of a 21st Century rambler. Then, a family bluegrass band from Southwest Virginia, Springfield Exit—lead by wife and husband Linda and David Lay, who share their stories of growing up with music, starting their own band and farming tomatoes. Plus music from Johnny Cash, the Carter Family, Freddy Fender, Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: After Hours Pete Drake & Little Roy Wiggins
    The Fabulous Steel Guitar Sounds of Pete Drake, Gusto
  • Travelin Blues T Bone Walker
    The Complete Imperial Recordings 1950-1954, Capitol
  • T Bone Shuffle Charley Crockett
    Lil G.L.'s Blue Bonanza, Son of Davy
  • Night Train to Memphis Jerry Lee Lewis
    A Taste of Country, Sun
  • Midnight Run James Hand
    Shadown on the Ground, Rounder
  • Jamestown Ferry Charley Crockett
    Lil' GL's Honky Tonk Jubilee, Son of Davy
  • Honky Tonk Blues Hank Williams
    The Complete Hank Williams, Mercury
  • Bright Lights, Big City Jimmy Reed
    Mr. Luck: The Complete Vee-Jay Singles, Craft
  • Instrumental: Detour Duane Eddy
    Have Twangy Guitar, Will Travel, Jame Record Co.
  • Dirt Road Blues Bob Dylan
    Time Out of Mind, Columbia
  • I Love My Rancho Grande Freddy Fender
    Before the Next Teardrop Falls, Geffen
  • SEGMENT: Charley Crockett

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  • Instrumental: Pflugerville Boogie Bill Neely
    Bill Neely-Texas Law & Justice, Arhoolie
  • Deep Elm Blues Bill Neely
    Bill Neely-Texas Law & Justice, Arhoolie
  • Dallas Blues Floyd Dixon
    High Notes of the Fifties, Frank Goldy
  • I Walked from Dallas Melvin "Lil' Son" Jackson
    Blues Come from Texas, Arhoolie
  • Ramblin' on My Mind James Booker
    James Booker-Classified, Rounder
  • End Bed: Down Yonder Willie Nelson
    Red Headed Stranger, Sony

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Listen to Me Mother Springfield Exit
    That Was Then, Patuxent Music
  • Sunny Side of the Mountain Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Jimmy Martin
    Will the Circle Be Unbroken, Capitol Records
  • Comin' Round the Mountain Uncle Dave Macon and Sam McGee
    Country Music-A Film by Ken Burns, Soundtrack, Sony
  • Blue Ridge Mountain Hurray for the Riff Raff
    Small Town Heroes, ATO Records
  • High on a Mountain Del McCoury and the Dixie Pals
    High on a Mountain, Rounder
  • Mountain of Love Johnny Rivers
    Johnny Rivers Greatest Hits, Soul City
  • Instrumental: Wildwood Flower Keith Whitley and Ricky Skaggs
    Second Generation, Revel Records
  • Run Mountain Carolina Chocolate Drops
    Leaving Eden, Nonesuch
  • My Clinch Mountain Home Carter Family
    Can the Circle Be Unbroken: Country Music's First Family, Sony
  • Daddy Sang Bass Johnny Cass
    The Essential Johnny Cash, Sony
  • SEGMENT: Springfield Exit

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  • Instrumental: Guitar & Harmonica Rag John Cephas and Phil Wiggins
    Living Country Blues, Vol. 1, L+R Records
  • The Hitchhiker Tom T. Hall
    100 Children, Mercury
  • That's How I Got to Memphis Solomon Burke
    Nashville, Shout! Factory
  • Barnyard Dance Martin, Bogan and Armstrong
    The Barnyard Dance-Martin Bogan and Armstrong, Rounder
  • Homegrown Tomatoes Guy Clark
    Better Days, Compass Records
  • Let's Call the Whole Thing Off Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong
    Ella and Louis Again, Verve
  • End Bed: Burgundy Street Blues George Lewis
    Jazz at Preservation Hall, Atlantic

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