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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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NATIONAL HERITAGE FELLOWS 2019

May 20th, 2020

American Routes celebrates this holiday weekend with words and music from the National Heritage Fellows Concert in Washington DC. Since 1982, the National Endowment for the Arts has presented the fellowships. It’s America’s highest honor in Folk & Traditional Arts. This year’s fellows include Texas ranchera elders Las Tesoros de San Antonio, Basque accordionist Dan Ansotegui, Malian balafon player Balla Kouyate, African American storyteller Linda Goss, Wyoming leatherworkerJames F. Jackson, Spanish colcha embroiderer Josephine Lobato, decoy carver Rich Smoker, Crow storyteller Grant Bulltail and Tennessee folklorist and state parks manager Bob Fulcher. Plus fellows from years gone by: Mavis Staples, Doc Watson, Wanda Jackson and the Holmes Brothers.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Balla Kouyate Open Balla Kouyate
    American Routes recording from the 2019 NEA National Heritage Fellows Concert,
  • Wang Dang Doodle Koko Taylor
    Deluxe Edition, Alligator
  • Why I Sing the Blues B.B. King
    Do the Boogie! B.B. King’s Early Classics, Virgin
  • SEGMENT: Chuck Brown

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  • Caso Perdido Beatriz Lamas of Las Tesoros de San Antonio
    American Routes recording from the 2019 NEA National Heritage Fellows Concert,
  • Te Vas a Repentir Blanquita Rodriguez of Las Tesoros de San Antonio
    American Routes recording from the 2019 NEA National Heritage Fellows Concert,
  • Instrumental: Getting Up the Stairs Joseph Decosimo
    American Routes recording from the 2019 NEA National Heritage Fellows Concert,
  • Down in Virginia The Holmes Brothers
    Soul Street , Rounder
  • SEGMENT: Wanda Jackson

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  • All Night Long Blues Bob Fulcher & Clyde Davenport
    At Seedtime on the Cumberland Festival 1993, Appalshop
  • SEGMENT: Bob Fulcher

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  • Ol Bangum Dan Hicks
    American Routes recording from the 2019 NEA National Heritage Fellows Concert,
  • SEGMENT: Rich Smoker

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  • Instrumental: Down by the Riverside George Lewis Band
    Jazz at Preservation Hall-The George Lewis Band of New Orleans, Atlantic
  • London Canal Breakdown Dr. Michael White
    Blue Crescent, Basin Street
  • Top Cat Mambo Ellie Mannette and His Invaders
    The Champions of Steelband in Trinidad, Cook
  • Descarga Maso Edwin Colon Zayas
    Homenaje a Los Maestros del Cuatro, vol. 1, self-published
  • On-Stage Performance The Maryland and Delaware Singing and Praying Bands
    American Routes recording from the 2014 NEA National Heritage Fellows Concert,
  • Calico Blues Linda Goss
    American Routes recording from the 2019 NEA National Heritage Fellows Concert,
  • Closing bed: Will the Circle Be Unbroken Dr. Michael White
    Blue Crescent, Basin Street

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Idumea David Ivey
    American Routes recording from the 2013 NEA National Heritage Fellows Concert,
  • I Wonder Where You are Tonight Mac Wiseman, Del McCoury & Doc Watson
    Mac, Doc & Del, Sugar Hill
  • Better Days Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee
    Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry Sing, Folkways
  • People Get Ready Shirley Caesar
    Vintage Gospel, Sonorous Gospel
  • SEGMENT: Mavis Staples

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  • Long Walk to DC The Staples Singers
    The Complete Stax/Volt Singles Vol. 2 '68-'71, Stax/Volt
  • SEGMENT: Grant Bulltail

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  • Instrumental: Zortzikoa Dan Ansotegui
    American Routes recording from the 2019 NEA National Heritage Fellows Concert,
  • Debukatuta Jota Dan Ansotegui
    American Routes recording from the 2019 NEA National Heritage Fellows Concert,
  • Historia Dan Ansotegui
    American Routes recording from the 2019 NEA National Heritage Fellows Concert,
  • Neue Sher Dave Tarras
    Freilach in Hi-Fi: Jewish Wedding Dances Vol. 1, Essential Media Group
  • Pretzels Polka Eddie Blazonczyk's Versatones
    Award Winning Polkas, Bel-Aire Records
  • La Porte Dans Arriere (The Back Door) Dewey Balfa, Marc Savoy & DL Menard
    En Bas Du Chene Vert, Arhoolie
  • SEGMENT: Josephine Lobato

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  • SEGMENT: James F. Jackson

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  • Instrumental: Doudou Ali Farka Toure and Toumani Diabate
    Ali and Toumani, World Circuit
  • Opihi Moe Moe Ledward Kaapana
    American Routes recording at the 2011 NEA National Heritage Fellows Concert,
  • Kalama`ula Ledward Kaapana
    American Routes recording at the 2011 NEA National Heritage Fellows Concert,
  • Sundiata Balla Kouyate
    American Routes recording from the 2019 NEA National Heritage Fellows Concert,
  • Kouyate Fasa Balla Kouyate
    American Routes recording from the 2019 NEA National Heritage Fellows Concert,
  • Closing Bed: Grand Finale Balla Kouyate
    American Routes recording from the 2019 NEA National Heritage Fellows Concert,

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