Sunday, November 29th
testify!
The Anointed Brown Sisters, “Hold On,” live, LaFayette, Alabama (Mt. Sellers Baptist Church), 2011
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Chicago (Columbus Park)
music clip of the day
jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
Category: gospel
2020
Sunday, November 22nd
two more takes
“The Storm Is Passing Over” (C. Tindley, D. Vails)
Second Chance (Baton Rouge, La.), live
2011
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2012
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lagniappe
random sights
a while ago, Ireland (Dingle Peninsula)
2020
Sunday, November 15th
three more takes
“The Storm Is Passing Over” (C. Tindley, D. Vails)
Unidentified church and lead singer, 2011
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Randall Nunn, 2016
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Mt. Mary Primitive Baptist Church, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., 2011
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
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lagniappe
reading table
Clear sky—
the way I came by once
I now go back by.—Gitoku, 1754 (translated from Japanese; Yoel Hoffmann, Japanese Death Poems: Written by Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the Verge of Death (1986))
2020
Sunday, November 8th
sounds of Detroit
Detroit Mass Choir, “The Storm Is Passing Over” (C. Tindley, D. Vails), live, Detroit, 2001
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Chicago
*****
reading table
No matter how hard
I try, I can’t stop thinking
of my old village—Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827), translated from Japanese by Sam Hamill
2020
Sunday, October 25th
testify!
President Barack Obama, funeral for Rev. Clementa Pinckney, Charleston, S.C., 6/26/15
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lagniappe
art beat: other day, Art Institute of Chicago
El Greco (aka Doménikos Theotokópoulos, 1541-1614), The Holy Face (From Santo Domingo el Antiguo), 1577-79
2020
Sunday, October 18th
timeless
Blind Willie Johnson (1897-1945), “God Don’t Never Change,” 1929
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Oak Park, Ill.
2020
Sunday, October 11th
testify!
Vernard Johnson (1948-, alto saxophone), “Only What You Do for Christ Will Last,” live, published 2014
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Oak Park, Ill.
2020
Sunday, October 4th
shout!
Clouds of Heaven (United House of Prayer), live, Charlotte, N.C., 2014
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random sights
other day, Chicago
2020
Sunday, September 27th
testify!
B.T.U. Specials, “God’s Got a Blessing for You”
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Chicago
2020
Sunday, September 20th
more
Sounds of Zion (United House of Prayer), live, published 2013
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lagniappe
random sights
this morning, Chicago (Columbus Park)
music clip of the day 