Sunday, December 12th
back to church
“O Lord Help Me to Stand,” Mt. Calvary Baptist Church, Gastonia, N.C., 1993
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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
2021
Sunday, December 5th
sounds of Chicago
Soul Stirrers, “Listen to the Angels Sing” (Jimmy Outler, lead vocal), live (TV show), early 1960s
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Chicago
2021
Sunday, November 28th
back to church
Spring Assembly of the Church of the Living God – Jewell Dominion, Mt. Clemens, Michigan, 1995
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
2021
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.
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.
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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
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