#807 The Story of Malaco Records, Opinions on Miranda Lambert & girl in red

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🗓️ 14 May 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Malaco Records is the longest-running independent label in American history, but most white music fans have never heard of it. Hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot talk with Rob Bowman about his book, "The Last Soul Company: The Malaco Records Story." Plus, they review new records by Miranda Lambert and girl in red.

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Featured Songs:

Jack Ingram, Miranda Lambert, Jon Randall, "Homegrown Tomatoes," The Marfa Tapes, Vanner, 2021

Jack Ingram, Miranda Lambert, Jon Randall, "Waxahachie," The Marfa Tapes, Vanner, 2021

girl in red, "Rue," if i could make it go quiet, AWAL, 2021

girl in red, "Serotonin," if i could make it go quiet, AWAL, 2021

girl in red, "Apartment 402," if i could make it go quiet, AWAL, 2021

girl in red, "Hornylovesickmess," if i could make it go quiet, AWAL, 2021

The Mississippi Mass Choir, "When I Rose This Morning," I'll See You in the Rapture, Malaco, 1996

Johnnie Taylor, "Disco Lady," Eargasm, Columbia, 1976

King Floyd, "Groove Me," King Floyd, Chimneyville, 1970

Jean Knight , "Mr. Big Stuff," Mr. Big Stuff, Stax, 1971

Dorothy Moore, "Misty Blue," Misty Blue, Malaco, 1976

Z.Z. Hill, "Down Home Blues," Down Home Blues, Malaco, 1982

The Golden Nuggets, "Gospel Train," Gospel Train (Single), Malaco, 1973

The Jackson Southernaires, "Hold To God's Unchanging Hand," Down Home, Malaco, 1982

Mahalia Jackson, "Move On Up A Little Higher," Move On Up A Little Higher (Single), Apollo, 1947

The Mississippi Mass Choir, "Call Him Up Part 1," "Live" In Jackson, Mississippi, Malaco, 1989

The Georgia Mass Choir, "Joy," I Sing Because I'm Happy, Savoy, 1992

Wale, "Sue Me (feat. Kelly Price)," Wow... That's Crazy, Every Blue Moon, 2019

LaShun Pace, "I Know I've Been Changed," He Lives, Savoy, 1991

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0:00.0	Wow babbling my bawbaw baw bum bum You're listening to sound opinions and this week we're talking about Malico Records,
0:25.0	the longest running independent label in American history. I'm Jim De Regattis.
0:30.0	And I'm Greg Kot. We'll also review two new records, the Marfa Tapes from Miranda Lambert and the Norwegian
0:36.6	indie pop of Girl in Red. So in the sky was on fire
0:43.0	Lost a night and war is a couple of times
0:48.0	danced with a cowboy on a straight tequila high
0:52.0	I wish I was in his arms tonight.
0:57.0	That is a track called In His Arms from the new album by Jack Ingram, Miranda Lambert, and John Randall called the Marfa Tapes.
1:05.0	A long-time friends from the Texas singer-songwriter scene, Ingram, Lambert, and Randall,
1:10.6	the best-known name among those three, obviously Miranda Lambert.
1:14.0	She is a superstar in Country World.
1:16.7	Manage to carve out an identity selling millions of records winning Grammy Awards,
1:22.2	despite the fact that she's a little left to center.
1:24.4	She's not exactly a mainstream artist, but she's made herself a mainstream artist by artistic
1:30.5	vision and pure talent and done that over a couple of decades.
1:34.0	Her pals, Jack Ingram and John Randall, perhaps less of household names,
1:40.0	but equally respected in the singer-songwriter scene in country music.
1:47.0	They are all Texas-bred singer-songwriters and coming out of a great long tradition there.
1:55.0	They have been hanging out for a number of years and in this particular instance the Marfa
2:01.8	Tapes that is a location a remote location in West Texas
2:05.4	become a little touristy in recent years but prior to that it's become an artist
2:09.6	bojo hang on I tell you how cool it is we aired for years on kRTS public radio there and now we don't
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