Sunday, October 2nd
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.
music clip of the day
jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
Category: gospel
2022
Sunday, September 25th
basement jukebox
The Original Gospel Harmonettes (feat. Dorothy Love Coates, 1928-2002 [MCOTD Hall of Fame]), 1956
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lagniappe
random sights
a while ago, Upper Peninsula, Michigan (Silver River Falls)
2022
Sunday, September 18th
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
2022
Sunday, September 11th
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
2022
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
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
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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
music clip of the day 