back to church
Cosmopolitan Church of Prayer Choir (feat. Diane Williams), “Step Back, Let God Do It,” live, Chicago, early 1990s
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lagniappe
art beat: other day, National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago
Detail from ofrenda (offering) to the Latinx victims of the shootings at Robb Elementary School (Uvalde, Texas), created by students at Bernhard Moos Elementary School (Chicago) (Dia de Muertos: Memories & Offerings, through 12/11/22)
back to church
New Hope Hymn Choir, “That Same Train,” live, South Carolina (Rock Hill), 1996
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random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
back to church
Shelly Davis Jr., “Stand By Me” (C.A. Tindley, 1905), live, Alabama (Elba), 2011
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random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
turn your radio on
Spirit of Memphis Radio Show, WDIA (Memphis), late 1940s/early 1950s
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random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
basement jukebox
Spirit of Memphis, “See What the End Will Be,” 1971
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random sights
yesterday, Chicago
back to church
“My Soul Is a Witness for My Lord,” Mt. Ramah Primitive Baptist Association, Thomaston, Georgia, 2011
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill. (Oak Park Conservatory)
back to church
“We Will Wait ‘Til Jesus Comes,” Mt. Ramah Primitive Baptist Association, Thomaston, Georgia, 2011
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Oak Park, Ill.
basement jukebox
The Original Gospel Harmonettes (feat. Dorothy Love Coates, 1928-2002 [MCOTD Hall of Fame]), 1956
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random sights
a while ago, Upper Peninsula, Michigan (Silver River Falls)
sounds of Chicago
Jessy Dixon (1938-2011) and The Jessy Dixon Singers, “Wait on Jesus,” live (TV show [Jubilee Showcase]), 1969
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Chicago
timeless
“Quartet of unidentified incarcerated men at Cummins State Farm (now Cummins Unit), Gould, Arkansas, recorded by John A. Lomax on May 21, 1939, under the auspices of the Archive of Folk Song, Library of Congress. Photo of baptism at Cummins, 1953, from the University of Arkansas-Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture.”—Alan Lomax Archive, YouTube
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lagniappe
reading table
Bats have no bankers and they do not drink
and cannot be arrested and pay no tax
and, in general, bats have it made.—John Berryman (1914-1972, MCOTD Hall of Fame), from Dream Song #63
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