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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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TOM WAITS & DAVE BRUBECK

January 23rd, 2008

We visit with two pianists and men of music, each eccentric in his own right. Since the early ’70s singer, songwriter and piano player Tom Waits has gone from anachronistic barfly and lounge singer to avant-vernacular iconoclast. Twentieth century jazz legend Dave Brubeck made his name by using odd, unconventional time signatures back when jazz was for dancing. And we radiate the 88s with some of the best piano music around.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Way Down in the Hole Tom Waits
    Beautiful Maladies: The Island Years, Island
  • Hang on St. Christopher Tom Waits
    Frank's Wild Years, Island
  • Mr. Highway Man Howlin' Wolf
    Memphis Days: The Definitive Edition, Vol.1, Bear Family
  • I Want a Butter and Eggman Louis Armstrong
    Butter & Eggman, Tomato
  • I'm Sharp When I Hit the Coast Joe Turner
    Savoy On Central Avenue, Savoy Jazz
  • Instrumental: Dansero Tab Smith
    Crazy Walk, Delmark
  • INTERVIEW: Tom Waits

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  • Instrumental: In Shades Tom Waits
    Heartattack And Vine, Elektra
  • Way Down in the Hole Blind Boys
    Spirit of the Century, Real World
  • Diamond in Your Mind Solomon Burke
    Don't Give Up On Me, Fat Possum
  • In The Wee Small Hours of The Morning Frank Sinatra
    In The Wee Small Hours, Capitol
  • Tom Traubert's Blues Tom Waits
    Small Change, Elektra

HOUR two

  • Open bed: Who Said That Dave Brubeck
    Dave Brubeck Time In, Columbia
  • Cow-Cow Boogie Ella Mae Morse
    Capitol: The Birth of a Label, Capitol
  • Red Hot Mama Deuce Spriggens
    Swing West! Vol. 3, Western Swing, Razor & Tie
  • Raggedy Ride The Four Blazes
    The United Records Story, Delmark
  • Thanks for the Boogie Ride Anita O'Day
    Anita O'Day with Gene Krupa: Let Me Off Uptown, Columbia
  • Instrumental: Dee's New Blues Ramsey Lewis Trio
    Consider the Source, Chess
  • He Done Her Wrong Dave Brubeck
    Time In, Columbia/Legacy
  • Baby Please Don't Go Mose Allison
    Allison Wonderland: The Anthology, Rhino
  • Old-Fashioned Morphine Jolie Holland
    Escondina, Anti
  • Blue Monk McCoy Tyner
    Nights of Ballads & Blue, Impulse
  • Instrumental: Unsquare Dance Dave Brubeck
    The Dave Brubeck Quartet: Time Further Out, Columbia
  • INTERVIEW: Dave Brubeck

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  • Rainy Weather Blues Amos Milburn
    Amos Milburn: Blues, Barrelhouse and Boogie-Woogie 1946-1955, Capitol
  • Louisiana 1927 Randy Newman
    The Randy Newman Songbook, Vol. 1, Nonesuch
  • Basin St. Blues Harold "Duke" Dejan and Preservation Hall Jazz Band
    Preservation Hall Hot 4 with Duke Dejan,
  • End Bed: Closing Time Tom Waits
    Closing Time, Elektra

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    THE COLOR OF MUSIC WITH HENRY BUTLER & LONNIE HOLLEY

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