Sunday, August 6th
sounds of Chicago
Violinaires, “I’ll Go With Him,” live (TV show [Jubilee Showcase]), Chicago, 1973
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Oak Park, Ill.
music clip of the day
jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
Category: gospel
2023
Sunday, July 30th
timeless
Mississippi Fred McDowell (1904-1972), “Wished I Was in Heaven Sitting Down,” live, Mississippi (Como), 1959
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Chicago
2023
Sunday, July 23rd
sounds of Chicago
Caravans (feat. Shirley Caesar, 1938-), “My All to the Lord,” 1960
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Chicago
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reading table
There are things
We live among ‘and to see them
Is to know ourselves’.
—George Oppen (1908-1984), from “Of Being Numerous”
2023
Sunday, July 16th
timeless
Arizona Dranes (1889 or 1891-1963, vocals, piano), “Lamb’s Blood Has Washed Me Clean,” rec. 1926 (Chicago)
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Chicago (Alexander Calder [1898-1976], Flamingo [1973], detail)
2023
Sunday, July 9th
sounds of Chicago
Inez Andrews (1929-2012) and the Andrewettes, “Mary Don’t You Weep,” live, 1960s
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lagniappe
random sights
other night, Chicago
2023
Sunday, July 2nd
sounds of Chicago
Jessy Dixon, et al., “Praise Him,” live (TV show [Jubilee Showcase]), Chicago, 1974
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Oak Park, Ill.
2023
Sunday, June 25th
sounds of Chicago
Cassietta George (1929-1995), “I Must Tell Jesus,” live (TV Show [Jubilee Showcase]), 1969
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Oak Park, Ill.
2023
Sunday, June 18th
sounds of Vidalia
The Benjamin Phillips Documentary: The Life of a Living Legend (excerpt), Vidalia, Georgia, 2015
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Chicago
2023
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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lagniappe
random sights
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”
2023
Sunday, June 4th
sounds of Chicago
Pilgrim Jubilees, “My Soul,” live (TV show [Jubilee Showcase]), 1969
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lagniappe
art beat: other 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
music clip of the day 