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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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ALTERED STATES: MUSIC AND ELIXIRS

January 23rd, 2002

From Absinthe to Zoloft, American Routes brews a stimulating show about elixirs, enhancers and downright downers. Guests include country star Hank Thompson on performing – and drinking – in the honky-tonks, and British historian James Hughes on altered states and creativity across time and cultures. Partake in music selections from Charlie Parker, Paul Bowles, Ella Fitzgerald and the Grateful Dead.

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HOUR ONE

  • Smoke, Smoke, Smoke Johnny Bond
    Hillbilly Boogie, Sony
  • Light Up & Listen radio commercial from Doc Watson show
  • Smoke Rings Les Paul & Mary Ford
    All-Time Greatest Hits, Capitol
  • Forty Cups of Coffee Danny Overbea
    Chess Blues Guitar, MCA/Chess
  • Java Jive The Modernaires
    Dinermite, Sony
  • La Cucaracha Orquesta Pajaro Azul
    Tex-Mex Vol.1, Folklyric
  • Marihuana Boogie Lalo Guererro
    Recuerdos, Lalo
  • Instrumental: If You're A Viper Kermit Ruffins
    The Big Butter & Egg Man, Justice
  • If Youse a Viper Rosetta Howard
    The Official Sampler, Official
  • INTERVIEW: James Hughes

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  • Ko Ko Charlie Parker
    Yardbird Suite, Rhino
  • Instrumental: Smoke Rings Django Reinhardt & Stephane Grappelli
    Nuages, ASV
  • Kickin the Gong Around Cab Calloway
    Slim and Slam,
  • Hong Kong Blues Hoagy Carmichael
    The Classic Hoagy, Smithsonian
  • Prelude for Bernard Suares Irene Herrmann/Paul Bowles
    Sonata, etc…, Koch
  • Bad Liver & a Broken Heart Tom Waits
    Beautiful Maladies, Island
  • Sam Stone John Prine
    Great Days, Rhino
  • Dead Flowers Rolling Stones
    Sticky Fingers, Virgin

HOUR two

  • Stranger in My Own Home Town Elvis Presley
    From Nashville to Memphis Vol 4, RCA
  • Turtle Blues Janis Joplin/ Big Brother & the Holding Company
    Cheap Thrills, Sony
  • Dumb Nirvana
    In Utero, Geffen
  • Better Must Come Delroy Wilson
    Tougher Than Tough, Mango
  • Pusherman Curtis Mayfield
    People Get Ready, Rhino
  • Instrumental: He Loved Him Madly Miles Davis / mixed by Bill Laswell
    Panthalassa: The Music of Miles Davis 1969-1974, Columbia
  • Round Midnight Miles Davis
    Round About Midnight, Columbia
  • Wackey Dust Chick Webb/Ella Fitzgerald
    Reefer Songs, Jass
  • Cocaine habit blues Memphis Jug Band Victor
    Ruckus Juice and Chittlins:The Great Jugbands,
  • Casey Jones Grateful Dead
    Workingman's Dead, Warner
  • Cocaine Blues Johnny Cash
    Live at Folsom Prison, Sony
  • Instrumental: The Penny Opus No.1 Hank Penny
    Crazy Rhythm: The Standard Transcriptions, Bloodshot
  • INTERVIEW: Hank Thompson Hank Thompson
  • The Drunkard's Room The Louvin Brothers
    Satan is Real, Capitol
  • Lord I've Tried Bill Landford & the Landfordaires
    There Will Be No Sweeter Sound, Okeh

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