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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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RECORD MAVENS: DAN AUERBACH & JOEL SAVOY TAKE ON THE MUSIC INDUSTRY

January 9th, 2019

Traveling at the speed of 45 RPM, we sink into the record grooves of some of our favorite songs and talk to the studio wizards who produced them. First stop is Nashville, home to Music Row as well as Easy Eye Sound, the recording studio of Black Keys guitarist Dan Auerbach. We talk with Auerbach about his journey in music, from hearing vinyl on his parents’ turntable in Akron, Ohio, to cutting records with some of Nashville’s legendary session players. Then we head to French Louisiana to chat with Cajun music maven Joel Savoy of Valcour Records about documenting and expanding the region’s traditional sounds. Heading east to the Fertile Crescent of American music and our hometown, we remember New Orleans’ Harold Battiste, who started All For One Records—the first African American owned label in the South—and arranged hits for Sam Cooke, Dr. John and Sonny & Cher, among others. Plus, more jukebox gold from Little Anthony & the Imperials, June Carter and the Lovin’ Spoonful.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: My Mind is Ramblin' The Black Keys
    Sunday Nights: The Songs of Junior Kimbrough, Fat Possum
  • Stay All Night Junior Kimbrough
    All Night Long, Fat Possum
  • Honey Hush Johnny Burnette
    Rockabilly Boogie, Bear Family
  • Cold Pillows Shannon Shaw
    Shannon in Nashville, Easy Eye Sound
  • Jockey Full of Bourbon Tom Waits
    Rain Dogs, Island
  • Hoboken Saturday Night The Insect Trust
    Hoboken Saturday Night, Atco
  • Instrumental: The Lonely One Duane Eddy
    Have 'Twangy' Guitar, Will Travel, Jamie
  • SEGMENT: Dan Auerbach

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  • Cold Pillows Shannon Shaw
    Shannon in Nashville, Easy Eye Sound
  • You Don't Have to Do Right Robert Finley
    Goin' Platinum , Easy Eye Sound
  • You Don't Have to Do Right Robert Finley
    Goin' Platinum, Easy Eye Sound
  • Son of a Preacher Man Dusty Springfield
    Dusty in Memphis, American Sound Studios
  • Instrumental: Grandma's Boogie Lightnin' Hopkins
    Found My Baby Crying/Uncle Stan, the Hip Hit Record Man, Jewel
  • Uncle Stan, the Hip Hit Record Man Lightnin' Hopkins
    Found My Baby Crying/Uncle Stan, the Hip Hit Record Man, Jewel
  • Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man The Rolling Stones
    Singles Collection: The London Years, Abkco
  • Nashville Cats The Lovin' Spoonful
    Hums of the Lovin' Spoonful, Bell Sound Studios and Columbia Studios
  • Juke Box Man Dick Curless
    The Drag 'Em Off the Interstate, Sock It To 'Em Hits of Dick Curless, Razor & Tie
  • Mr. Record Man Willie Nelson
    Nite Life: Greatest Hits & Rare Tracks 1959-1971, Rhino
  • Closing Bed: Unchained Melody Duane Eddy
    Twangy Guitar Silky Strings, RCA Victor

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Reel de Coquin Linzay Young & Joel Savoy
    Reel de Coquin, Valcour
  • Paul Daigle Sur le Juke Box Bonsoir, Catin
    Blue a Catin, Bridgetown Records
  • Juke Box Blues June Carter Cash
    Keep on the Sunny Side: June Carter Cash - Her Life in Music, Columbia
  • A Prayer and a Juke Box Little Anthony & the Imperials
    The Best of Little Anthony and the Imperials , Rhino
  • Phonograph Blues Robert Johnson
    The Complete Recordings, Columbia
  • Big Ten-Inch Record Bull Moose Jackson with Tiny Bradshaw's Orchestra
    Risque Rhythm: Nasty '50s R&B, Rhino
  • Instrumental: Pine Grove Blues Wilson Savoy
    The Best of Valcour Records 2006-2011, Valcour
  • SEGMENT: Joel Savoy

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  • When I Die Marc Broussard
    I Wanna Sing Right: Rediscovering Lomax in the Evangeline Country, Valcour
  • Junko Partner Dr. John
    Gumbo, ATCO
  • Instrumental: The Big B.N. The AFO Executives & Tammy Lynn
    Compendium , AFO Records
  • You Send Me Sam Cooke
    Songs by Sam Cooke, Keen
  • I Know Barbara George
    Gumbo Stew, AFO
  • Baby Don't Go Sonny and Cher
    Baby Don't Go, Reprise
  • Olde Wine AFO Executives
    Gumbo Stew, AFO
  • CLIP: Henry Butler
  • Closing Bed: Basin Street Blues Henry Butler
    American Routes Recording,

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    THE COLOR OF MUSIC WITH HENRY BUTLER & LONNIE HOLLEY

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