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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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THANKSGIVING WITH THE 2022 NATIONAL HERITAGE FELLOWS

November 23rd, 2022

For Thanksgiving, we’re celebrating the 2022 National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellows. Great musicians, storytellers, artisans and advocates, who have received our nation’s highest honor in traditional arts with these new honorees: Richmond gospel family, The Legendary Ingramettes; Navajo Diné weaver and sheep rancher, TahNibaa Naataanii; Washington DC step choreographer, C. Brian Williams; Excelsior Brass Band of Mobile, Alabama; master Hawai’ian Hale builder Francis “Palani” Sinenci; Tibetan Opera singer and dancer Tsering Wangmo Satho; Flamenco dancer Eva Encinias; Bluegrass fiddler Michael Cleveland; St. Croix Quelbe flute player and bandleader, Stanley Jacobs; and New Orleans Black-masking craftsman, stilt dancer and musician, Shaka Zulu. Plus music from former fellows Doc Watson, Cedric Burnside, Clifton Chenier, Flaco Jiménez, Andy Statman, Dr. Michael White and Wanda Jackson, among others.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: I Feel the Blues Moving In Del McCoury Band
    High Lonesone and Blue, Rounder
  • Blues Never Die Koko Taylor
    I Got What It Takes, Alligator
  • Please Tell Me Baby Cedric Burnside
    Benton County Relic, Single Lock Records
  • SEGMENT: Legendary Ingramettes

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  • Instrumental: Gospel Groove Billy Preston
    The Complete Vee-Jay Recordings, Concord
  • Eh, 'Tite Fille Clifton Chenier
    Louisiana Blues & Zydeco, Arhoolie
  • Caroline Blinky & the Roadmasters
    Crucian Scratch Band Music, Rounder
  • SEGMENT: Stanley Jacobs

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  • SEGMENT: Francis P. Sinenci

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  • Instrumental: I Feel Alright Barbara Lynn
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  • Nice and Easy Barbara Lynn
    Movin' on a Groove, Tribe
  • Any Other Way William Bell
    The Very Best of William Bell, Concord
  • SEGMENT: C. Brian Williams

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  • SEGMENT: Excelsior Band

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  • End Bed: Will the Circle Be Unbroken Dr. Michael White
    Blue Crescent, Basin Street

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Bye Bye Blues Eddie Penninton
    Eddie Pennington Walks the Strings and Even Sings, Smithsonian Folkways
  • I Gotta Know Wanda Jackson
    The Capitol Singles: 1956-1958, Capitol
  • Singing the Blues Doc Watson
    Docabilly, Sugar Hill
  • Daisy Brownie McGhee
    Classic Piedmont Blues, Smithsonian Folkways
  • SEGMENT: Michael Cleveland

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  • Instrumental Descarga Guajira Cachao
    Canta Contrabajo-Cachao, Musica Tropical
  • Descarga Cubana Cachao y su Ritmo Caliente
    Monte Adentro Lachao y su Ritmo Caliente, Blue Moon
  • Ay Te Dejo in San Antonio Flaco Jimenez
    Ay Te Dejo in San Antonio, Arhoolie
  • SEGMENT: Eva Encinias

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  • SEGMENT: TahNibaa Naataanii

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  • Instrumental: Dialogue Rahim AlHaj Trio
    One Sky, Smithsonian Folkways
  • Bashies Bounce Andy Statman and David Grisman
    Songs of Our Fathers-Traditional Jewish Melodies, Acoustic Disc
  • Kaloaloa Hui Ohana: Ledward Ka'apana, Nedward Ka'apnna, Dennis Pavao
    Young Hawaiians Play Old Hawaii, Lehua
  • SEGMENT: Tsering Wangmo Satho

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  • Jambalaya Strut Dr. Michael White
    Dancing in the Sky, Basin Street
  • SEGMENT: Shaka Zulu

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  • End Bed: Spiritual Hank Jones and Charlie Haden
    Steal Away, UMG

THE LATEST STREAMS

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    HOME GROWN SOUL: JIMMY HUGHES AND BOOKER T. JONES

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    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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