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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other day, Chicago
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A tethered horse,
snow
in both stirrups.—Yosa Buson, 1716-1783 (translated from Japanese by Robert Hass)
back to church
Christian Home Baptist Church, Lowry, S.C., 2010
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art beat
yesterday, Des Moines (Des Moines Art Center)
Edward Hopper (1882-1967), Automat, 1927
like nobody else
Aretha Franklin (1942-2018), “Precious Lord” (T. A. Dorsey), live
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yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
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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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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sounds of Chicago
Willie Rogers, “When the Gates Swing Open” (T. A. Dorsey), live, 2015
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For all of life is really recoil and leap, leap and recoil.
—Lucy Ellman, Ducks, Newburyport
back to church
Swanee Quintet, live, 2017
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this morning, Oak Park, Ill.
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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
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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This road—
no one goes down it,
autumn evening.—Matsuo Basho, 1644-1694 (translated from Japanese by Robert Hass)
sounds of Chicago
Mighty Clouds of Joy, live (TV show: Jubilee Showcase), Chicago, 1968
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Aretha testifies
Aretha Franklin (1942-2018) with Rev. James Cleveland (1942-2018), et al., live, Los Angeles, 1972
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