Sunday, January 25th
sounds of Philadelphia
Davis Sisters (featuring Ruth Davis), “I Believe I’ll Go Back Home,” live (TV show: TV Gospel Time), 1960s
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
music clip of the day
jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
Category: gospel
2020
Sunday, January 19th
more
Soul Stirrers (feat. Sam Cooke, Paul Foster), live, Los Angeles, 1955
“I Have a Friend Above All Others,” “Be With Me Jesus”
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“Nearer My God to Thee”
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lagniappe
random sights
a while ago, off the coast of Maine
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reading table
The present
must be kept empty
so that anything
can happen:—Rae Armantrout (1947-), from “Empty”
2020
Sunday, January 12th
more
Soul Stirrers (featuring Sam Cooke [1931-1964]), “Touch the Hem of His Garment” (S. Cooke), 1956
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
2020
Sunday, January 5th
timeless
Soul Stirrers (featuring Sam Cooke [1931-1964]), “Jesus, Wash Away My Troubles” (S. Cooke), 1956
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
2019
Sunday, December 29th
back to church
Swanee Quintet, “Prayer Changes Things,” live, 2011
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lagniappe
reading table
You think you care what this book is about, but really you care how it sounds.
—Joe Moran, First You Write a Sentence (2018)
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random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
2019
Sunday, December 22nd
never enough
Gospel Harmonettes (featuring Dorothy Love Coates, 1928-2002, MCOTD Hall of Fame), “I Won’t Let Go” (D. Coates), live (TV show), 1964
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lagniappe
other day, Oak Park, Ill.
*****
reading table
To limber your sensibility, stalk the aesthetic everywhere: cracks in a sidewalk, people’s ways of walking. The aesthetic isn’t bounded by art, which merely concentrates it for efficient consumption. If you can’t put a mental frame around, and relish, the accidental aspect of a street or a person, or really of anything, you will respond to art only sluggishly.
—Peter Schjeldahl, “The Art of Dying,” New Yorker, 12/23/19
2019
Sunday, December 15th
There are all kinds of gospel.
Common, William Murphy, Erykah Badu, “God Is Love,” “The Light,” live (TV show), Newark, N.J., 2019
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Chicago
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reading table
A tethered horse,
snow
in both stirrups.—Yosa Buson, 1716-1783 (translated from Japanese by Robert Hass)
2019
Sunday, December 8th
back to church
Christian Home Baptist Church, Lowry, S.C., 2010
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lagniappe
art beat
yesterday, Des Moines (Des Moines Art Center)
Edward Hopper (1882-1967), Automat, 1927
2019
Sunday, December 1st
like nobody else
Aretha Franklin (1942-2018), “Precious Lord” (T. A. Dorsey), live
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lagniappe
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
2019
Sunday, November 24th
never enough
Gospel Harmonettes (featuring Dorothy Love Coates, 1928-2002, MCOTD Hall of Fame), “You’ve Been Good to Me” (D. Coates), 1964
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Oak Park, Ill.
music clip of the day 