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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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November 8th, 2000

Nick talks to Chris Strachwitz, founder of Arhoolie Records, about his lifelong quest for American Music. Also Peter Sokolow of Klezmer Plus talks about how Jewish music relates to the evolution of jazz. We’ll hear the music from Buddy Holly, Treme Brass Band, Violent Femmes, and more.

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HOUR ONE

  • American Music Violent Femmes
    Add It Up 1981-1993, Slash
  • That'll Be the Day Buddy Holly
    Greatest Hits, MCA
  • Dirty Willie Mongo Santamaria
    Skin On Skin 1958-1995, Rhino
  • Jumpin' With Symphony Sid King Pleasure
    King Pleasure Sings, Fantasy
  • Instrumental: Jumpin' With Symphony Sid Lester Young
    The Complete Aladdin Recordings of Lester Young, Blue Note
  • INTERVIEW: Chris Strachwitz
  • Murmullo Buena Vista Social Club
    Buena Vista Social Club, Nonesuch
  • Complainin Lucky Roberts
    Lucky & Lion: Harlem Piano, Fantasy
  • But Not for Me Kermit Ruffins
    Swing This, Basin Street
  • Instrumental: Crawfishin' Marcia Ball
    Let Me Play With Your Poodle, Rounder
  • I Know That's Right Katie Webster
    I Know That's Right, Arhoolie
  • Take Me Back to Tulsa Bob Wills
    Hall Of Fame, United Artists
  • This Should Go On Forever Rod Bernard
    Swamp Pop, Jin
  • Lake Charles Lucinda Williams
    Car Wheels On a Gravel Road, Mercury

HOUR two

  • Promised Land Mose Allison
    Back Country Suite, Prestige
  • Moses Smote the Water Golden Gate
    Swing Down Chariot, Columbia
  • Hora Atik Paradox Trio
    The Jewish Alternative Movement, Knitting Factory
  • INTERVIEW: Peter Sokolow
  • Ot Azoy Klezmer Plus
    The Soul of Klezmer, Network
  • Instrumental: Bucket's Got A Hole In It Percy Humphrey's Crescent City Joymakers
    New Orleans: The Living Legends, Riverside
  • It's Time to Make a Change Lively Stones
    Saints Paradise, Folkways
  • Just a Closer Walk with Thee Treme Brass Band
    Gimme My Money Back,
  • My God is Real Al Green
    Livin' for You, Hi Records
  • Match Box Blues Blind Lemon Jefferson
    Blind Lemon Jefferson, Fantasy
  • Matchbox Ike Turner
    Oxford American 1999,
  • Matchbox Carl Perkins
    Bear Family,
  • Instrumental: Water Boy Link Wray
    Guitar Preacher: The Polydor Years, Polydor
  • Many Rivers to Cross Jimmy Cliff
    The Harder They Come, Island
  • Take Me Home, Country Roads Toots & the Maytals
    Time Tough, Island
  • One More Mile to Go Otis Spann & James Cotton
    The Blues Never Die, Fantasy
  • Somewhere Over the Rainbow Jerry Lee Lewis
    Oxford American 1999,
  • Somewhere Over the Rainbow Art Tatum
    The Complete Pablo Solo Masterpieces, Pablo

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