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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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MUSIC, COMICS & COLLECTING RECORDS: R. CRUMB & JERRY ZOLTEN

September 24th, 2014

This week on American Routes we spin some shellac and wax nostalgic with the iconic cartoonist, musician and record collector Robert Crumb, who’ll share with us his love of musical times gone by. Then, we talk to educator and vinyl aficionado Jerry Zolten about the story of Paramount Records, started by a furniture manufacturer, whose recorded legacy is now contained in two swank suitcases.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Chasin' Rainbows R. Crumb and His Cheap Suit Serenaders
    Chasin' Rainbows, Shanachie
  • Keep on Truckin' Hot Tuna
    Burgers, Grunt
  • Sittin' on Top of the World Taj Mahal
    Dancing the Blues, Private
  • Diddy Wa Diddy John Jackson
    Country Blues and Ditties, Arhoolie
  • SEGMENT: R. Crumb Pt. 1
  • excerpt: Keep On Truckin' Donovan
    What's Bin Did and What's Bin Hid, Pye
  • Worried Man Blues George Jones
    The Unbroken Circle, Dualtone
  • Hell Hound on My Trail Cassandra Wilson
    Blue Light 'Til Dawn, Blue Note
  • Instrumental: Moana March R. Crumb and the Cheap Suit Serenaders
    Chasin' Rainbows, Shanachie
  • SEGMENT: R. Crumb Pt. 2
  • excerpt: Fox Musette Les Primitifs du Futur
    World Musette, Sunnyside
  • excerpt: There! I've Said It Again Vaughn Monroe & His Orchestra
    Sentimental Journey: Pop vocal Classics Vol. 1, 1942-1946, Rhino
  • excerpt: Bells The Beau Hunks
    Play the Original Little Rascals Music: 50 Roy Shields Themes, Koch
  • excerpt: Lotta Lovin' Gene Vincent
    The Screaming End: The Best of Gene Vincent, Razor & Tie
  • excerpt: I'm Comin' Virginia Bix Beiderbecke
    Singin' the Blues, Columbia Masterpieces
  • excerpt: Down in the Cemetery Billy Bird
  • excerpt: Hollywood Rag Cannon's Jug Stomper
  • excerpt: Happy Days and Lonely Nights Charley Fry & His Million Dollar Pier Orchestra
  • excerpt: Goofus Slim Lamar and His Southerners
  • Instrumental: Briggs' Corn Shucking Jig/ Camptown Hornpipe Carolina Chocolate Drops
    Leaving Eden, Nonesuch
  • Last Kind Words Blues Geeshie Wiley
    Before The Blues Vol. 2: The Early American Black Music Scene, Yazoo
  • SEGMENT: R. Crumb pt. 3
  • excerpt: River Blues R. Crumb and His Keep On Truckin' Orchestra
  • excerpt: Walking In the Parlor Al Hopkins' Bucklebusters
  • excerpt: Lonesome Drag Tuba Skinny
    Pyramid Strut, self-released
  • excerpt: Yellow Dog Blues Wise String Orchestra
  • Walk Right In Cannon's Jug Stompers
    Best of Cannon's Jug Stompers, Yazoo
  • End Bed: Yellow Dog Blues Geoff Muldaur and the Texas Sheiks
    Geoff Muldaur and the Texas Sheiks, Tradition and Moderne

HOUR two

  • Riverside Blues King Oliver's Jazz Band
    The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records: 1917-1932 Vol 1 Jobber-Luxe USB, Third Man/Revenant
  • Till the Seas Run Dry Dom Flemons
    Prospect Hill, Music Maker
  • Don't Tear My Clothes No. 2 The Chicago Black Swans
    Those Dirty Blues Vol. 3, Grammercy
  • Baby Let Me Follow You Down Bob Dylan
    Bob Dylan, Columbia
  • Your Southern Can Is Mine The White Stripes
    De Still, Sympathy for the Record Industry
  • Death Letter Son House
    Father of the Folk Blues, Columbia
  • Careless Love Ray Charles
    Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music, ABC
  • Instrumental: Basin Street Blues Henry Butler
    American Routes original recording,
  • Pullman Passenger Train Pullman Porters Quartette
    The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records: 1917-1932 Vol 1 , Third Man/ Revenant
  • Way Up In NYC Loudin Wainwright III
    High Wide & Handsome: The Charlie Poole Project, 2nd Story
  • SEGMENT: Jerry Zolten

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  • excerpt: The Bumps Jeanette James and Her Synco Jazzers
    The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records: 1917-1932 Vol 1 Jobber-Luxe USB, Third Man/ Revenant
  • excerpt: Buck Town Blues Blind Blake
    The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records: 1917-1932 Vol 1 Jobber-Luxe USB, Third Man/ Revenant
  • excerpt: You Can't Do What My Last Man Did Ethel Waters
    The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records: 1917-1932 Vol 1 Jobber-Luxe USB, Third Man/ Revenant
  • excerpt: Chicago Buzz Junie Cobb's Hometown Orchestra
    The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records: 1917-1932 Vol 1 Jobber-Luxe USB, Third Man/ Revenant
  • excerpt: Find Me at the Greasy Spoon Coot Grant and 'Kid' Wesley Wilson
    The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records: 1917-1932 Vol 1 Jobber-Luxe USB, Third Man/ Revenant
  • excerpt: Ada Jane's Blues Trixie Smith
    The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records: 1917-1932 Vol 1 Jobber-Luxe USB, Third Man Records/ Revenant
  • excerpt: If I Had My Way Rev. T.T. Rose
    The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records: 1917-1932 Vol 1 Jobber-Luxe USB, Third Man/ Revenant
  • excerpt: Come Right In Ida Cox & Lovie Austin
    The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records: 1917-1932 Vol 1 Jobber-Luxe USB, Third Man/ Revenant
  • excerpt: Galion Stomp Lovie Austin
    The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records: 1917-1932 Vol 1 Jobber-Luxe USB, Third Man/ Revenant
  • Instrumental: The Dream Ry Cooder
    Jazz, Reprise
  • Big Ten-Inch Record Bull Moose Jackson
    Risky Blues, King
  • Stack-a-Records Tom Tall
    Rockin' Bones 1950s Punk & Rockabilly, Rhino
  • Rock and Roll Records J.J. Cale
    Any Way the Wind Blows: The Anthology, Mercury
  • New Minglewood Blues Noah Lewis and HIs Jug Band
    Gimme dat Harp Boy: Roots of the Captain, Ozit
  • New New Minglewood Blues Grateful Dead
    Grateful Dead, Warner Bros.
  • End Bed: Walk Right In Duane Eddy
    Twangin' Up a Storm, RCA

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