sounds of Chicago
Pastor T.L. Barrett & the Royal Voices of Life, live (“I Shall Wear a Crown,” “Like a Ship,” “Nobody Knows”), Chicago, published 9/9/21
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It was not
for moon gazing I came
into Mount Yoshino
yet seeing it I grieve
over the sad world—Saigyō (1118-1190), translated from the Japanese by Meredith McKinney
sounds of Chicago
Staple Singers, “There Won’t Be No More Ghetto for Me,” live (TV Show [Jubilee Showcase]), Chicago, 1968
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Golden Eagle Gospel Singers, “The Prodigal Son” (rec. 1939, Chicago)
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For those who proclaim
they’ve grown weary of children,
there are no flowers—Matsuo Basho (1644-1694), translated from the Japanese by Sam Hamill
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Swan Silvertones (feat. Claude Jeter, Percell Perkins), “All Aboard” (P. Perkins), 1951
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Blue sky, cold geese honk.
On a bare mountain, tree leaves flutter.
At dusk in the village, smoke billows from every house.
Alone with my empty bowl, I head home.—Ryokan (1758-1831), translated from the Japanese by Kazuaki Tanahashi
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O’Neal Twins, “Jesus Dropped the Charges” (R. White), live (Say Amen, Somebody [1982])
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Whitney Houston (1963-2012), “I Love The Lord/Joy To The World,” live (with the Georgia Mass Choir), 1996
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Since there is nothing but just this moment, the time-being is all the time there is.
—Dōgen (1200-1253), translated from the Japanese (“The Time-Being,” Moon in a Dewdrop: Writings of Zen Master Dōgen [Kazuaki Tanahashi, ed.])
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Blind Willie Johnson (1897-1945), with his wife, Willie B. Harris, “The Rain Don’t Fall on Me,” 1930
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She’s put the child to sleep
and now she washes clothes
under the summer moon.—Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827), translated from the Japanese by Robert Hass
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Whitney Houston (1963-2012), “God Will Take Care of You,” live, Evangelical Fellowship Church, Pleasantville, N.J., 1998
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Blind Willie Johnson (1897-1945), “Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning,” 1929
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sounds of Mississippi
Fred McDowell (1906-1972; vocals, guitar), “Woke up This Morning With My Mind on Jesus,” recorded by Alan Lomax in Como, Miss., 1959
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