Sunday, March 19th
timeless
Sweetest sounds this side of heaven?
Washington Phillips (1880-1954), “Take Your Burden to the Lord and Leave It There,” rec. 1927 (Dallas)
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other day, Chicago
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Category: gospel
2023
Sunday, March 12th
sounds of Chicago
Caravans (feat. Loleatta Holloway [1946-2011]), “Praising Him,” live (TV show [Jubilee Showcase]), 1967
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other day, Chicago
2023
Sunday, February 26th
sounds of Chicago
Vernon Oliver Price (1929-), “How I Got Over,” live (TV show [Jubilee Showcase]), 1972
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(Taking a break.)
2023
Sunday, February 19th
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Dixie Hummingbirds (feat. James Walker), “Take Care of Me” (J. Walker), 1990s
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yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
2023
Sunday, February 12th
timeless
Dixie Hummingbirds (feat. Ira Tucker [lead vocals], Howard Carroll [guitar]), live: “Jesus Is Coming Soon”
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yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
2023
Sunday, February 5th
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Blind Willie Johnson (1897-1945), “Jesus Make Up My Dying Bed,” 1927 (Dallas)
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art beat: yesterday, Des Moines Art Center
Anselm Kiefer (1945-), Untitled (1987-88), detail
2023
Sunday, January 29th
timeless
Still, after more than fifty years of listening, this voice and this guitar, accompanied by his wife’s voice, give me chills.
Blind Willie Johnson (vocals, guitar) with Willie B. Harris (vocals), “I’m Gonna Run to the City of Refuge,” 1928 (Dallas)
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yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
2023
Sunday, January 22nd
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Spirit of Memphis Quartet (feat. Jethroe Bledsoe), “Lord Jesus” (Parts 1 & 2), rec. 1952 (live, Memphis [Mason’s Temple])
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my back pages
On a cold, snowy night forty-six years ago, at a church thirty miles north of Chicago, my wife, Suzanne, and I were married. Saxophonist Von Freeman (1923-2012) and pianist John Young (1922-2008) provided the music, playing before the ceremony (“Over the Rainbow,” “It Never Entered My Mind,” “More”), during (Duke Ellington’s “In a Sentimental Mood,” as Suzanne walked down the aisle [unaccompanied saxophone]), and after (“My Favorite Things,” “Song for My Father”). All of this can be heard here (0:14-).
2023
Sunday, January 15th
timeless
Spirit of Memphis Quartet (feat. Silas Steele), “He Never Left Me Alone” (E. Malone), rec. 1949 (Cincinnati)
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2023
Sunday, January 8th
testify!
Vernard Johnson (1948-, alto saxophone), “Holiness Is What I Long For,” live, Louisville, Ky., 2017
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