Sunday, September 4th
back to church
Mt. Ramah Primitive Baptist Association, “Walking in Jerusalem Just Like John,” live, Thomaston, Georgia, 2011
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Chicago
music clip of the day
jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
Category: gospel
2022
Sunday, August 28th
more
Mavis Staples (1939-) and Levon Helm (1940-2012), “You Got to Move” (rec. 2011, Woodstock, N.Y.), published 2022
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Chicago (Alexander Calder [1898-1976], Flamingo [1973], detail)
2022
Sunday, August 21st
sounds of Chicago
Delois Barrett Campbell (1926-2011, voice) with sister Rhodessa Barrett Porter (voice), Robert Wooten (organ), Charles Pike (piano), “I’ll Rise Again” (aka “Rise Again”), live, Chicago (Operation Push), late 1970s-80s
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Oak Park, Ill.
2022
Sunday, August 14th
back to church
“The Day Is Past and Gone,” live, Shiloh Institutional Baptist Church, Charlotte, North Carolina, 1988
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lagniappe
*****
reading table
Children,
let’s go to the mountain
to view violets.
If they scatter away tomorrow,
what can we do?—Ryokan (1758-1831), translated from the Japanese by Kazuaki Tanahashi (Sky Above, Great Wind: The Life and Poetry of Zen Master Ryokan, 2012)
2022
Sunday, August 7th
what’s new
Mavis Staples (1939-) and Levon Helm (1940-2012), “Farther Along,” published 8/5/22 (rec. 2011, Woodstock, N.Y.)
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Oak Park, Ill.
2022
Sunday, July 31st
back to church
“Lord, Don’t Leave Me,” live, Mt. Vernon Missionary Baptist Church, Charlotte, North Carolina, 2003
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Chicago
2022
Sunday, July 24th
timeless
This album I’ve been listening to for nearly fifty years, never tiring of it.
Vernard Johnson (1948-, alto saxophone), The Gospel Saxophone of Vernard Johnson,* 1974
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lagniappe
random sights
other morning, Copper Harbor, Michigan (Lake Superior)
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1. “I’ve Decided To Make Jesus My Choice”
2. “Jesus Will Bring Things Out Alright ”
3. “Hung up for My Hang Ups”
4. “God Will Take Care of You”
5. “Only What You Do for Christ Will Last”
6. “It’s Real”
7. “I’ll Make It Alright”
8. “Precious Lord”
9. “This Way to Jesus”
10. “Oh Happy Day”
2022
Sunday, July 17th
back to church
“Go Preach My Gospel,” live, Rock Hill, South Carolina (Ebenezer Baptist Church), 2002
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Copper Harbor, Michigan (Lake Superior)
2022
Sunday, June 10th
Aretha testifies!
Aretha Franklin (1942-2018), “Climbing Higher Mountains” (with Rev. James Cleveland [1931-1991, piano, vocals]; Southern California Community Choir), live, Los Angeles (New Temple Missionary Baptist Church), 1972
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Oak Park, Ill. (Oak Park Conservatory)
2022
Wednesday, July 6th
sounds of Detroit
Floorplan (aka Robert Hood), “Never Grow Old” (Re-Plant), 2014
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lagniappe
reading table
He walked in awe
In awe of light
At nightfall, not at dawn
Whatever he saw
Receding from sight
In the sky’s afterglow
Was what he wanted
To see, to know—Samuel Menashe (1925-2011), “Enlightenment”
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