Sunday, March 1st
testify!
Mid-South Singers, “Will Meet You in the Morning,” two takes (1st [released], 0:00-2:53; 2nd [unreleased], 2:58-6:08), 1953
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Oak Park, Illinois
music clip of the day
jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
Category: gospel
2026
Sunday, February 22nd
basement jukebox
Calvary Travelers, “Lord, I Hate To Think About It”
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lagniappe
art beat: other day, Smart Museum (University of Chicago), Theaster Gates: Unto Thee (closing today)
Theaster Gates (1973-), We Will Save Ourselves (2024)
2026
Sunday, February 8th
basement jukebox
Rev. Leon Pinson (1919-1998) and His Talking Guitar, “If You Are a Witness, Let God Abide”
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Illinois
2026
Sunday, February 1st
testify!
Original Every Ready Gospel Singers, “He’s My King,” 1956 (rec. Houston)
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Illinois
2026
Sunday, January 25th
timeless
Blind Willie Johnson (1897-1945, MCOTD Hall of Fame), “Bye and Bye I’m Going to See the King,” 1929 (rec. 12/10/29, New Orleans)
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Chicago (Monadnock Building, 1890s)
2026
Sunday, January 18th
sounds of Chicago (in Louisiana)
Soul Stirrers (Jesse J. Farley, Johnny Jones, Martin Jacox, Arthur Crume, Rufus Crume), live (“That’s Heaven To Me,” “When the Gates Swing Open,” “Wade in The Water,” “Sermonette,” “Free at Last,” “Resting Easy”), Louisiana, 1972
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Oak Park, Illinois
2026
Sunday, January 11th
timeless
Five Soul Stirrers of Houston, live (“Lordy, Lordy”; “John, The Revelator”; “How Did You Feel When You Came Out of the Wilderness”; “Standing by the Bedside of a Neighbor”), Austin, Texas, 1936
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Oak Park, Illinois (U.S. Post Office)
2026
Sunday, January 4th
Who needs instruments?
“God’s Got It,” 2011
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lagniappe
reading table
No outer space, just space,
The light of all the not yet stars
Drifting like a bright mist,
And all of us, and everything
Already there
But unconstrained by form.—Rebecca Elson (1960-1999), from “Antidote to Fear of Death”
2025
Sunday, December 28th
sounds of Flint, Michigan
The New Jerusalem Baptist Church Choir, “I Can’t Feel At Home,” live, Flint, Michigan, 1980
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langiappe
random sights
other day, Oak Park, Illinois
2025
Sunday, December 21st
testify!
Aretha Franklin (1942-2018) and Mavis Staples (1939-), “Oh Happy Day” (E. Hawkins), live, Detroit (New Bethel Baptist Church), 1987
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random sights
other day, Chicago
music clip of the day 