Thursday, June 19th

by musicclipoftheday

passings

Jimmy Scott, singer, July 17, 1925-June 12, 2014

“Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child,” live, New York (Birdland), 2000

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lagniappe

reading table

If you were to open up Iona’s chest and pour all the grief out of it, you would probably flood the entire planet, yet it is not visible.

—Anton Chekhov (1860-1904), “Grief” (often rendered as “Misery”; translated from Russian by Rosamund Bartlett)