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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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April 13th, 2011

Whether you’re spinning 45s, 78s, or LPs, you’ll discover gold in the vinyl this week on American Routes. We check in with the record label dedicated to resurrecting lost sounds for the digital age, Dust to Digital. For some soul sides, we hear from Gabriel Roth, founder of Daptone Records, who’s re-imaging classic soul with the band Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings. We’ll also talk to the man who got the Bossa Nova on record and started the Impulse label, jazz producer Creed Taylor. Then it’s off to Ville Platte for a conversation with Cajun recordman Floyd Soileau of Swallow Records. Plus tunes to get the jukebox shaking!

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Honky Tonk - Pt. 1 Bill Doggett
    Rites Of Rhythm & Blues, Vol. 2 , Motown
  • Good Rockin' Tonight Elvis Presley
    The Singles Collection, Vol. 1 , Sun
  • Honky Tonk (Parts 1 & 2) James Brown
    Messing with the Blues , Polydor
  • SEGMENT: Sharon Jones and Gabriel Roth

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  • Instrumental: Tough Talk The Jazz Crusaders
    At The Lighthouse '68 , Pacific Jazz
  • El Is A Sound Of Joy Sun Ra & The Arkestra
    Delmark Records: 50 Years of Jazz and Blues , Delmark
  • (Every Time I Hear That) Mellow Saxophone Roy Montrell
    The Specialty Story , Specialty
  • Up Tight, Good Man Laura Lee
    The Muscle Shoals Sound , Rhino
  • Everybody Needs Love Drive-By Truckers
    Go-Go Boots , ATO
  • I Want to Be With You Always Buddy Miller and Patty Griffin
    Buddy Miller's The Majestic Silver Strings , New West
  • Instrumental: Moanin' Ray Charles
    Genius+Soul=Jazz , Rhino
  • SEGMENT: Creed Taylor

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  • Girl from Ipanema Antonio Carlos Jobim
    Antonio Carlos Jobim: The Man from Ipanema , Verve
  • Follow Your Heart Joe Farrell Quartet with John McLaughlin
    Joe Farrell Quartet, CTI
  • End Bed: Again, Never Donald Harrison
    Free To Be , Impulse

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: We're Ready Junior Wells
    Hoodoo Man Blues , Delmark
  • Goodbye Babylon The Black Keys
    Magic Potion , Nonesuch
  • The Devil's in the Jukebox Ray LaMontagne and the Pariah Dogs
    God Willin' & The Creek Don’t Rise, Stone Dwarf
  • God's Own Juke Box Jesse Winchester
    Third Down, 110 to Go , Stony Plain
  • I Got A Home In That Rock The Silvertone Singers of Cincinnati
    The Excello Story: Vol. 1, Hip-O
  • SEGMENT: Lance Ledbetter of Dust-to-Digital

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  • Instrumental: Tired of Me The Crystal String Ramblers
    How Low Can You Go? Anthology of the String Bass 1925-1941, Dust-to-Digital
  • Radio King Golden Smog
    Stay Golden, Smog: The Best Of Golden Smog – The Rykodisc Years , Rhino
  • Mr. Record Man Willie Nelson
    Nite Life: Greatest Hits & Rare Tracks (1959-1971) , Rhino
  • Juke Box Blues June Carter
    Keep on the Sunny Side: June Carter Cash – Her Life In Music , Columbia
  • Juke Box Mama Sonny Landreth
    The Road We're On , Sugar Hill
  • Instrumental: Swallow Two-Step Jambalaya Cajun Band
    Cajun Dance Favorites , Swallow
  • Let's Do The Cajun Twist Randy & The Rockets
    Swamp Gold Volume 1 , JIN
  • I Got Loaded Lil' Bob & The Lollipops
    Swamp Gold – Volume 1 , JIN
  • SEGMENT: Floyd Soileau of Swallow Records

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  • Opelousas Sostan Rufus Jagneaux
    Swamp Gold – Volume 1 , JIN
  • Allons Danser Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys
    Friday at Last , Swallow
  • End Bed: Return of the Creole Jeffery Broussard & the Creole Cowboys
    Return of the Creole , Maison de Soul

THE LATEST STREAMS

  • February 1st, 2023

    HOME GROWN SOUL: JIMMY HUGHES AND BOOKER T. JONES

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  • January 25th, 2023

    NEW ORLEANS TRADITIONAL JAZZ LIVE WITH DR. MICHAEL WHITE AND THE ORIGINAL LIBERTY JAZZ BAND - JAZZ MANOUCHE FROM CHRISTINE TASSAN ET LES IMPOSTEURES

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  • January 18th, 2023

    THE COLOR OF MUSIC WITH HENRY BUTLER & LONNIE HOLLEY

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