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
music clip of the day
jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
Category: gospel
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.
2019
Sunday, November 17th
never enough
Dorothy Love Coates (1928-2002, MCOTD Hall of Fame), “I Won’t Let Go” (D. L. Coates), “Lord You’ve Been Good To Me” (D. L. Coates), live, 1981
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
2019
Sunday, November 10th
sounds of Chicago
Willie Rogers, “When the Gates Swing Open” (T. A. Dorsey), live, 2015
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
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reading table
For all of life is really recoil and leap, leap and recoil.
—Lucy Ellman, Ducks, Newburyport
2019
Sunday, November 3rd
back to church
Swanee Quintet, live, 2017
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lagniappe
random sights
this morning, Oak Park, Ill.
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reading table
In the summer of 1948, chance deposited my wife and me in the bleachers of a tiny one-ring circus playing under a tent on the outskirts of Florence.
—William Maxwell (1908-2000), The Outermost Dream
2019
Sunday, October 27th
two takes
“Getting Late in the Evening”
Ernestine Oliver with Alberta Gibson, Cleo Johnson and Hattie May Howell, live, Piney Woods, Miss., 1939
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Original Gospel Harmonettes (featuring Dorothy Love Coates, 1928-2002, MCOTD Hall of Fame), live, Los Angeles, 1955
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lagniappe
reading table
This road—
no one goes down it,
autumn evening.—Matsuo Basho, 1644-1694 (translated from Japanese by Robert Hass)
2019
Sunday, October 20th
sounds of Chicago
Mighty Clouds of Joy, live (TV show: Jubilee Showcase), Chicago, 1968
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Chicago
2019
Sunday, October 13th
Aretha testifies
Aretha Franklin (1942-2018) with Rev. James Cleveland (1942-2018), et al., live, Los Angeles, 1972
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
2019
Sunday, October 6th
sounds of Seneca, South Carolina
Fantastic Violinaires, “Where He Leads Me” (featuring Danny Walker, in his hometown), live, Seneca, S.C., 2015
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Oak Park, Ill.
music clip of the day 