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Friday, 7/6/12

mesmerizing, pres. part. Spellbinding, enthralling. E.g., Sonny Boy Williamson II.

Sonny Boy Williamson II (AKA Aleck [or Alex] “Rice” Miller)
Live, Europe, 1960s

“I’m A Lonely Man”

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“Bye Bye Bird”

More? Here. And here.

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If they would create a time machine, I’d use it just to listen this guy.

Youtube comment

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lagniappe

reading table

evening
is such a downer . . .
meadow butterfly

—Kobayashi Issa, 1763-1827 (translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue)

Thursday, 7/5/12

Post-holiday blues?

Not for long.

Rahsaan Roland Kirk (saxophones), with McCoy Tyner (piano), Stanley Clark (bass) and Lenny White “drums,” “Pedal Up,” TV show (introduced by Quincy Jones), 1975

(Later note: When I posted this clip, I didn’t know there’d be all these commercials. You can skip the junk here.)