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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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RADIO DAYS REVISITED

July 21st, 2004

We celebrate our chosen medium, scanning the dial in search of great voices, characters and shows that grace the airwaves locally and nationwide, today and yesterday. Included are Ann Arbor/New Orleans legend John Sinclair, an old-time country station based in a Mt. Airy, North Carolina log cabin, and Rev. Izeer’s “Spiritual Workshop” from Jackson, MS.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Accentuate the Positive Harold Arlen
    Over The Rainbow: Capitol Sings Harold Arlen, Capitol
  • Junco Partner Louis Jordan
    Let The Good Times Roll, Bear Family
  • Doxy Sonny Rollins
    Airegin, Giants of Jazz
  • Sunny Bobby Hebb
    Beg, Scream & Shout, Rhino
  • Instrumental: Sunny The John Schoeder Orchestra
    Space Age Soul, Sequel
  • SEGMENT: Reverend Izeer's Spiritual Workshop, WMPR-AM, Jackson, MS
  • I Want A Little Sugar in my Bowl Nina Simone
    Essential Women in Blues, HoB
  • Crowing Rooster Blues Lonnie Johnson
    He's a Jelly Roll Baker, BMG
  • Jump Back Rufus Thomas
    The Best Of, Rhino
  • Indian Love Call Slim Whitman
    Vintage Collections, Capitol
  • White Line Fever The Flying Burrito Brothers
    The Flying Burrito Brothers, A&M
  • New River Train The Monroe Brothers
    Volume 1, Rounder
  • Midnight Blues Leftover Salmon
    The Nashville Sessions, Universal
  • Instrumental: Eh La Bas Paul Barbarin
    New Orleans Jazz, Atlantic
  • INTERVIEW: John Sinclair

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  • Sunny side of the Street Sidney Bechet
    At Storyville, 1201 music
  • Big Bad Bill Is Sweet William Now Van Halen
    Diver Down, Warner

HOUR two

  • Family Affair Sly & The Family Stone
    Anthology, Epic
  • Ball Peen Hammer Chris Whitley
    Night on the Delta, Starbucks
  • Blues on The Ceiling Fred Neil
    Bleecker & MacDougal,
  • Amelia Earhart's Last Flight Kinky Freidman & the Texas Jewboys
    Texas Song Writers, Silverwolf
  • Somewhere Listening (for My Name) John Fogerty
    The Blue Ridge Rangers, Fantasy
  • Instrumental: OGD Wes Montgomery
    Ultimate, Verve
  • She's No Trouble Benny Moten
    Kansas City Breakdown, Frog
  • Give Me a Kiss to Build a Dream Louis Armstrong
    Hello, Dolly, MCA
  • I'm Gonna Be a Wheel Someday Bobby Mitchell
    The Genius of Dave Bartholomew, EMI
  • Evangeline Special Eddie LeJeune
    Cajun Spirit, Rounder
  • Instrumental: Deux Valses a Wayne Perry Steve Riley
    La Toussaint, Rounder
  • SEGMENT: Ralph Efferson of WPAQ, Mt. Airy, North Carolina
  • Wabash Cannonball The Carter Family
    In the Shadow of Clinch Mountain, Bear Family
  • Orphan Girl Gillian Welch
    Revival, Almo
  • Anji Davy Graham
    Fire In The Soul, Topic
  • Over The Rainbow Israel Kamakawiwo'ole
    Meet Joe Black soundtrack, Universal
  • End Bed: With a Song in My Heart Ella Fitzgerald
    Sings the Rodgers & Hart Songbook, Verve

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