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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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HOW MANY ROADS: BOB DYLAN'S BACK PAGES VOLUME II

January 3rd, 2018

In this second edition of “How Many Roads?” Bob Dylan’s Back Pages, we’ll rejoin the great American wordsmith by listening to his work from the last 25 years. We won’t forget the historic and ancient roots of his modern sounds, from the Old Testament to the Civil Rights movement. We’ll hear from collaborators and friends, Mavis Staples and Joan Baez, and from Kris Kristofferson who overheard Dylan’s recording sessions while working as a custodian in Nashville. We’ll go to our archives for the late producer Jerry Wexler on Dylan’s spiritual transformation and hear songs that address outlaws and lovers, memories and mortality.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Man in the Long Black Coat Bob Dylan
    Oh Mercy, Columbia
  • All Along the Watchtower Bob Dylan
    John Wesley Harding, Columbia
  • Everything is Broken Bob Dylan
    Oh Mercy , Columbia
  • Ring them Bells Bob Dylan
    Oh Mercy, Columbia
  • This Wheel's On Fire The Byrds
    Dr. Byrds and Mr. Hyde, Columbia
  • Talkin' World War III Blues Bob Dylan
    The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, Columbia
  • Instrumental: Corrina, Corrina Bob Dylan
    The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, Columbia
  • Oxford Town Bob Dylan
    The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, Columbia
  • Blowin' in the Wind Bob Dylan
    The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, Columbia
  • SEGMENT: Mavis Staples

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  • Broke Down Engine Bob Dylan
    World Gone Wrong, Columbia
  • CLIP: Jerry Wexler

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  • You Got to Serve Somebody Bob Dylan
    Slow Train Coming, Columbia
  • Instrumental: Pledging My Time Bob Dylan
    Blonde on Blonde, Columbia
  • CLIP: Kris Kristofferson

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  • Visions of Johanna Bob Dylan
    Blonde on Blonde, Columbia
  • Just Like Tom Thumb Blues Nina Simone
    To Love Somebody, RCA
  • She Belongs to Me Bob Dylan
    Bringing It All Back Home, Columbia
  • Most of the Time Bob Dylan
    Tell Tale Signs, Columbia
  • Closing Bed: Don't Think Twice, It's All Right David West
    Tangled Up in Bluegrass: A Tribute to Dylan, CMH

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Duquesne Whistle Bob Dylan
    Tempest, Columbia
  • Sittin' On Top of the World Bob Dylan
    Good as I Been to You, Columbia
  • CLIP: Ramblin' Jack Elliott

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  • Song to Woody Bob Dylan
    Bob Dylan, Columbia
  • John Wesley Harding Bob Dylan
    John Wesley Harding, Columbia
  • Instrumental: Guitar Breakdown Woody Guthrie
    My Dusty Road, Smithsonian
  • Outlaw Blues Bob Dylan
    Bringing It All Back Home, Columbia
  • Pretty Boy Floyd Bob Dylan
    Folkways-- A Vision Shared, Columbia
  • Knockin' on Heaven's Door Bob Dylan
    Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, Columbia
  • SeƱor (Tales of Yankee Power) Willie Nelson and Calexico
    I'm Not There, Sony
  • Billy 1 Los Lobos
    I'm Not There, Sony
  • Instrumental: Billy 1 Bob Dylan
    Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, Columbia
  • Buckets of Rain Bob Dylan
    Blood on the Tracks, Columbia
  • Love Minus Zero No Limit Joan Baez
    Baez Sings Dylan, Vanguard
  • SEGMENT: Joan Baez

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  • Man of Constant Sorrow Bob Dylan
    Bob Dylan, Columbia
  • Tryin' To Get To Heaven Bob Dylan
    Time Out of Mind, Columbia
  • End Bed: Final Theme Bob Dylan
    Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, Columbia

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