Sunday, October 27th

two takes

“Getting Late in the Evening”

Ernestine Oliver with Alberta Gibson, Cleo Johnson and Hattie May Howell, live, Piney Woods, Miss., 1939

 

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Original Gospel Harmonettes (featuring Dorothy Love Coates, 1928-2002, MCOTD Hall of Fame), live, Los Angeles, 1955

 

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lagniappe

reading table

This road—
no one goes down it,
autumn evening.

—Matsuo Basho, 1644-1694 (translated from Japanese by Robert Hass)