Sunday, August 22nd
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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2021
Sunday, August 15th
sounds of Chicago
Golden Eagle Gospel Singers, “The Prodigal Son” (rec. 1939, Chicago)
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yesterday, Chicago (Columbus Park)
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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
2021
Sunday, August 8th
timeless
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
2021
Sunday, August 1st
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O’Neal Twins, “Jesus Dropped the Charges” (R. White), live (Say Amen, Somebody [1982])
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Sunday, July 25th
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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.])
2021
Sunday, July 18th
timeless
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
2021
Sunday, July 11th
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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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2021
Sunday, June 27th
timeless
Blind Willie Johnson (1897-1945), “Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning,” 1929
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2021
Sunday, June 20th
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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2021
Sunday, June 13th
sounds of Memphis
Memphis Gospel Singers (Spirit of Memphis Quartet), “I’m Happy in the Service of the Lord,” 1949
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