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Friday, 11/19/10

If you have any doubts about the transformative powers of music, watch this. I’ve spent more hours than I could count in prisons, state and federal, in Illinois and Ohio and Wisconsin, meeting with clients. Never have I seen folks so relaxed.

Johnny Cash, live, San Quentin, 1969

“I Walk the Line”

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“Folsom Prison Blues”

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“Orange Blossom Special”

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“Jackson” (with June Carter Cash)

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lagniappe

reading table

There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book.

Patti Smith (after winning this year’s National Book Award for nonfiction for her memoir Just Kids)

Thursday, 11/18/10

His music points toward another world—one more lyrical, more refined, more lucid than this.

Mozart, Piano Sonata No. 14 in C Minor, K. 457/Friedrich Gulda, live, 1981

1st Movement

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2nd Movement

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3rd Movement

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(This last clip does something odd: instead of ending when the third movement concludes [5:15], it starts over.)