Sunday, November 21st
timeless
Dorothy Norwood Singers, “(I Kept On) Searchin’,” live, Germany, 1966
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
music clip of the day
jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
Category: gospel
2021
2021
Sunday, November 14th
sounds of Chicago
Soul Stirrers (feat. Jimmy Outler), “Looking Back,” live (TV show [Jubilee Showcase]), Chicago, 1964
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Oak Park, Ill.
2021
Sunday, November 7th
more
Vernard Johnson (alto saxophone), “Grateful,” live, Los Angeles (COGIC International Women’s Convention), 2010
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lagniappe
random sights
a while ago, Maine (Monhegan Island)
2021
Sunday, October 31st
like nobody else
Vernard Johnson (alto saxophone), live (COGIC International Women’s Convention), 2013
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
*****
reading table
[E]verything returns, but what returns is not
what went away——Louise Glück (1943-), from “The Denial of Death” (Winter Recipes from the Collective, 2021)
2021
Sunday, October 24th
timeless
Aretha Franklin (1942-2018, voice, piano) with Rev. James Cleveland (1931-1991, voice, piano), Southern California Community Choir, et al., live, New Temple Missionary Baptist Church, Los Angeles, 1972
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Oak Park, Ill.
2021
Sunday, October 17th
another take
“I Don’t Know What You’ve Come To Do,” Amazing Grace Praise Band, live, Westside Baptist Church, Evergreen, Ala., 2007
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, outside Chicago (Forest Park)
2021
Sunday, October 10th
timeless
Dixie Hummingbirds, “Get Away, Jordan” (trad.), c. 1949
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Oak Park, Ill.
*****
reading table
This world—
strung jewels
of dew
on the frail thread
a spider spins—Saigyō (1118-1190), translated from the Japanese by Meredith McKinney
2021
Sunday, October 3rd
another take
Elder Demetrius Tolfre, “I don’t Know What You’ve Come To Do,” live, 2007
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Chicago (Columbus Park)
*****
reading table
My heart
I send with the moon
into the mountains—
what of this body
left in darkness?—Saigyō (1118-1190), translated from the Japanese by Meredith McKinney
2021
Sunday, September 26th
sounds of Chicago
Anointed Brown Sisters, “I Don’t Know What You’ve Come Do Do,” live, Chicago, 2010
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
2021
Sunday, September 19th
two takes
“Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen” (trad.)
Sonja Maneri (1937-2021, voice), Mat Maneri (1969-, viola), live, published 2020
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Mat Maneri (viola), live, Paris, 2020
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lagniappe
random sights
a while ago, Ireland (Dingle Peninsula)
music clip of the day 