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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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MUSIC & MEMORY ON THE MISSISSIPPI: LEWIS FAMILY MUSEUM, HANEY'S BIG HOUSE AND A NOLA JAZZ FUNERAL

February 25th, 2015

This week we start with a tour of the Lewis Family Museum and liquor store in Ferriday, LA, where Jerry Lee Lewis’ sister Frankie Jean shows us around the home where they grew up. Then we visit with the mayor of Ferriday and the people of club/hotel/bus depot/post office Haney’s Big House. Across the river in Natchez, MS, bluesman Hezekiah Early looks back on playing in Haney’s house band. We end in New Orleans, where we talk with Treme Brass Band’s leader and snare drummer Benny Jones and bass drummer Joe Lastie about their late drummer and friend Uncle Lionel Batiste.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Harmonica Shuffle Hezekiah & the Houserockers
    Hezekiah & the Houserockers, High Water
  • Great Balls of Fire Jerry Lee Lewis
    The Locust Years..., Bear Family
  • M.I.S.S.I.S.S.I.P.P.I. Ella Fitzgerald
    1950, Classics
  • Big River Johnny Cash
    The Man In Black: 1954-1958, Bear Family
  • Natchez Shopping Blues Olu Dara
    In the World: From Natchez to New York, Atlantic
  • The Natchez Burnin' Howlin' Wolf
    The Chess Box, MCA/ Chess
  • SEGMENT: Haney's Big House with Charles Bell & Mayor McGlothin

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  • Instrumental: Jookin' Noble 'Thin Man' Watts with King Curtis
    The Fire/ Fury Records Story, Capricorn
  • SEGMENT: Hezekiah Early

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  • Meet Me Down in Froggy Bottom Mississippi Fred McDowell
    The Best of Mississippi Fred McDowell, Arhoolie
  • Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On Big Maybelle
    The Complete Okeh Sessions 1952-1955, Epic/ Okeh
  • SEGMENT: The Lewis Family Museum

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  • Instrumental: I've Got a Robe, You Got a Robe (Goin' To Shout All Over God's Heav'n) Charlie Haden and Hank Jones
    Steal Away, Verve
  • Precious Memories Sister Rosetta Tharpe
    Ladies of Gospel - Women of Gospel: Precious Memories, Peacock/ MCA
  • Son of a Preacher Man Dusty Springfield
    Dusty in Memphis, Rhino
  • I Remember You Frank Ifield
    The Best of the EMI Years, Parlophone
  • Nothing Takes the Place of You Toussaint McCall
    Nothing Takes the Place of You, Fuel
  • Lake Charles Lucinda Williams
    Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, Mercury
  • End Bed: La Valse a Howard Hebert Les Freres Michot
    Eleves a Pillette, ArZed

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Just a Closer Walk With Thee Treme Brass Band
    Gimme My Money Back, Arhoolie
  • First Air of Autumn Drive-By Truckers
    English Oceans, ATO
  • Big Iron Marty Robbins
    Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs, Columbia
  • Gregorio Cortez Los Hermanos Banda
    Mexican-American Border Music Vol.1 1928-1958, Arhoolie
  • Pancho and Lefty Delbert McClinton
    Poet: A Tribute to Townes Van Zandt, Free Falls Entertainment
  • Me and Paul Willie Nelson
    Yesterday's Wine, Justice
  • Instrumental: Red River Road, Part One Los Cenzontles with David Hidalgo & Pete Sears
    Songs of Wood & Steel, Los Cenzontles Mexican
  • Smokey Joe's Cafe Buddy Holly
    Memorial Collection, Geffen
  • Teddy's Juke Joint Jackie Scott & the Housewreckers
    How Much Woman Can You Stand, Jackie Scott
  • The New San Francisco Bay Blues Hurray for the Riff Raff
    Small Town Heroes, ATO
  • (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay Otis Redding
    Otis! The Definitive Otis Redding, Rhino/ Atlantic
  • Instrumental: These Foolish Things Lester Young
    The Complete Lester Young Studio Sessions of Verve, Universal
  • Travelin' Light Billie Holiday
    The Essential Billie Holiday: Songs of Lost Love, Verve
  • Remember Me (When the Candlelights Are Gleaming) Willie Nelson
    Red Headed Stranger, Columbia
  • Careless Love Lionel Batiste Sr.
    Lars Edegran Presents Uncle Lionel, GHB
  • SEGMENT: Treme Brass Band

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  • End Bed: Oh, Didn't He Ramble Kid Ory
    1922-1945, Classics

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