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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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CREOLE EYES AND CLASSICAL EARS: VAN DYKE PARKS & TOM MCDERMOTT

April 23rd, 2014

Conversation with, and music from, Van Dyke Parks, an eclectic, popular classicist known as a composer and keyboardist, arranger and producer, with a great love of calypso and Hawaiian cowboy music. The man behind the curtain for so many artists, the Hollywood-based Parks is well-regarded for writing and studio work with Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys, Ry Cooder, Lowell George and Randy Newman, among many others. He recently became a fan of pianist Tom McDermott, a St. Louis-born, New Orleans-dwelling and Brazilian-influenced vernacular virtuoso. Parks thought enough of McDermott’s recorded repertoire to collect and reissue some of it as Bamboula — so-named for the composition by the mutually-admired New Orleans 19th century pianist Louis Moreau Gottschalk. Tom McDermott, also a fan of Scott Joplin, Jelly Roll Morton, Professor Longhair and James Booker, plays in his parlor for us.

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HOUR ONE

  • America Van Dyke Parks
    Tokyo Rose, Warner Bros.
  • Sailin' Shoes Little Feat
    Sailin' Shoes, Warner Bros.
  • Sail On Sailor The Beach Boys
    Good Vibrations: Thirty Years of the Beach Boys, Capitol
  • Jack Palance Mighty Sparrow
    The Early Years, BLS
  • FDR in Trinidad Ry Cooder
    Into the Purple Valley, Warner Bros.
  • Wah She Go Do Bonnie Raitt
    Takin' My Time, Rhino
  • Instrumental: Simple Calypso Esso Trinidad Steel Band
    Esso, Minky
  • SEGMENT: Van Dyke Parks

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  • Instrumental: Available Space Ry Cooder
    Ry Cooder, Warner Bros.
  • CLIP: Van Dyke Parks on Randy Newman
  • except: Vine Street Van Dyke Parks
    Song Cycle, Warner Bros.
  • Bet No One Ever Hurt This Bad Randy Newman
    Creates Something New Under the Sun, Reprise
  • Cheek to Cheek Lowell George
    Thanks, I'll Eat It Here, Warner Bros.
  • De Camino a la Vereda Buena Vista Social Club feat. Ibrahim Ferrer
    Buena Vista Social Club, Nonesuch
  • Hawaiian Roughrider Leabert Lindsay
    Na Mele O Paniolo, Warner Bros.
  • Cowboy Van Dyke Parks
    Moonlighting: Live at the Ash Grove, Warner Bros.
  • Heroes and Villains The Beach Boys
    Smiley Smile, Capitol
  • End Bed: The Stars and Stripes Forever Tom McDermott and Matt Perrine
    New Orleans Duets, Rabadash

HOUR two

  • The Crysanthemum Tom McDermott
    Danza, STR Digital
  • The Banjo, Opus 15 Louis Moreau Gottschalk
    American Piano Music Played By Amiram Rigai, Smithsonian Folkways
  • East St. Louis Baby Professor Longhair
    Professor Longhair's Boogie, Catfish
  • Java Allen Toussaint
    The Complete 'Tousan' Sessions, Bear Family
  • Tricks Ain't Walkin' No More Jelly Roll Morton and Tom McDermott
    New Orleans Duets, Rabadash
  • On the Sunny Side of the Street James Booker
    Junco Partner, Hannibal
  • Instrumental: So Swell When You're Well James Booker
    Spiders on the Keys: Live at the Maple Leaf, Rounder
  • SEGMENT: Tom McDermott

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  • The Peanut Vendor Billie and De De Pierce
    Gulf Coast Blues, Arhoolie
  • Bamboula Tom McDermott
    Bamboula, Minky
  • Instrumental: Boll Weevil Blues Eubie Blake
    Memories of You, Shout! Factory
  • Have You Seen My Baby Ringo Starr
    Ringo, EMI
  • Hey Good Lookin' Meschiya Lake and Tom McDermott
    Live at Chickie Wah Wah, Chickie Wah Wah
  • Lewis Boogie Jerry Lee Lewis
    Complete Sun Singles, Bear Family
  • Eh, Petite Fille Clifton Chenier
    Louisiana Blues and Zydeco, Arhoolie
  • Early in the Morning Irma Thomas and Tom McDermott
    Simply Grand, Rounder
  • End Bed: The Crave Tom McDermott
    The Crave, STR Digital

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