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.
music clip of the day
jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
Category: gospel
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
*****
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.
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.
*****
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.
*****
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
