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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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SUMMER SOUNDS - BEING & STAYING COOL

August 11th, 2021

This summer we try to be and stay…cool. Leading our in-crowd is pianist and jazz radio host Ramsey Lewis in conversation about blending the blues he heard on the Chicago streets with gospel music from home to create a cool version of jazz. We’ll also hear cool words and music from Tom Waits, Dr. John, Aretha Franklin, Albert Murray, and Oscar Brown, Jr. Plus a visit to North Carolina’s historic Black Seabreeze Beach.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: The 'In' Crowd Ramsey Lewis Trio
    Masters of Jazz, Vol. 7: Jazz Hit Singles, Rhino
  • But I Was Cool Oscar Brown, Jr.
    The Beat Generation, Rhino
  • Milestones Miles Davis and John Coltrane
    The Complete Columbia Recordings 1955-1961, Columbia
  • Fan It Lightnin' Hopkins
    Mojo Hand: The Lightnin' Hopkins Anthology, Rhino
  • Walk Right In Rooftop Singers
    Folk Song America: A 20th Century Revival, Time/Life
  • Instrumental: Lil' King of Everything Los Lobos
    El Cancionero Mas y Mas, Rhino
  • Mambo del Pachuco Don Tosti y su Conjunto
    Panchuco Boogie, Arhoolie
  • Romeo Is Bleeding Tom Waits
    Blue Valentine, Elektra
  • I Never Loved a Man Aretha Franklin
    I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You, Rhino
  • Instrumental: Twist City Johnny Griffin and Matthew Gee
    Atlantic Jazz: Soul, Atlantic
  • Low Down Dog Big Joe Turner
    Boss of the Blues, Big Joe Turner Sings Kansas City Jazz, Atlantic
  • Stack-a-Lee Dr. John
    Gumbo, Atco
  • The Monkey Dr. John
    N'Awlinz, Dis, Dat or D'Udda, Blue Note
  • Segment: Ramsey Lewis

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  • End Bed: Tipitina

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Summertime Gabor Szabo
    Jazz Raga—Gabor Szabo,
  • Watermelon Man Mongo Santamaria
    YouTube,
  • Rosa Maria Flaco Jimenez
    Flaco Jimenez—Ay Te Dejo en San Antonio, Arhoolie
  • Texas Sun Khruangbin, Leon Bridges
    Texas Sun, Dead Oceans
  • Wild as the Sea The Sandals
    Endless Summer, Capitol
  • Whispering Sea Loretta Lynn
    Honky Tonk Girl: The Loretta Lynn Collection, UMG
  • Hula Blues Barney Issacs and George Kuo
    Hawaiian Touch, Dancing Cat
  • Instrumental: Summer Breeze Ramsey Lewis
    Solar Wind, Columbia
  • In the Heat of the Night Ray Charles
    King of Cool—The Genius of Ray Charles,
  • Hard to Stay Cool Cedric Burnside
    Benton County Relic, Single Lock Records
  • Segment: Brenda Freeman, Alfred Mitchell, Chicken Hicks on Sea Breeze

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  • Instrumental: Watermelon Man Herbie Hancock
  • Cool Blues Charlie Parker
    The Complete Savoy & Dial Master Takes, Savoy
  • Cool Baby Sarah Vaughan
    The Complete Sarah Vaughn on Mercury, Vol. 3, Verve
  • Summer Wind Willie Nelson
    My Way, Sony
  • Be Cool Joni Mitchell
    Wild Things Run Fast, Geffen
  • End Bed: Surfer Girl Bill Frisell
    Guitar in the Space Age, Songtone

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