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Sunday, July 9th

sounds of Chicago

Inez Andrews (1929-2012) and the Andrewettes, “Mary Don’t You Weep,” live, 1960s

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other night, Chicago

Sunday, July 2nd

sounds of Chicago

Jessy Dixon, et al., “Praise Him,” live (TV show [Jubilee Showcase]), Chicago, 1974

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other day, Oak Park, Ill.

Sunday, June 25th

sounds of Chicago

Cassietta George (1929-1995), “I Must Tell Jesus,” live (TV Show [Jubilee Showcase]), 1969

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other day, Oak Park, Ill.

Sunday, June 18th

sounds of Vidalia

The Benjamin Phillips Documentary: The Life of a Living Legend (excerpt), Vidalia, Georgia, 2015

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other day, Chicago

Sunday, June 11th

back to church

“Promise the Lord, I would meet him, A long time ago,” Mt. Do Well Baptist Church, McConnells, S. C., 2003

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other day, Oak Park, Ill.

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reading table

Look through my eyes up
At blue with not anything
We could have ever arranged
Slowly taking place.

—W. S. Graham (1918-1986), from “Enter a Cloud”

Sunday, June 4th

sounds of Chicago

Pilgrim Jubilees, “My Soul,” live (TV show [Jubilee Showcase]), 1969

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art beatother day, Art Institute of Chicago (Van Gogh and the Avant-Garde: The Modern Landscape, through 9/4/23)

Vincent van Gogh, 1853-1890, By the Seine (1887), detail

Sunday, May 28th

timeless

Skip James (1902-1969, vocals, guitar), “Jesus Is a Mighty Good Leader,” 1931 (rec. Grafton, Wis.)

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other day, Oak Park, Ill.

Sunday, May 21st

more

James Brandon Lewis (tenor saxophone), “His Eye Is on the Sparrow,” live Denver

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yesterday, Chicago (Lurie Garden)

Sunday, May 14th

sounds of Chicago

Barrett Sisters, “Til We Meet Again,” live

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other day, Oak Park, Ill.

Sunday, May 7th

timeless

Blind Willie McTell (vocals, guitar) with Kate McTell (vocals) and Curley Weaver (guitar), “I Got Religion, I’m So Glad,” rec. 1935 (Chicago)

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this morning, Oak Park, Ill.