Sunday, December 2nd
timeless
Pilgrim Travelers, “I’ve Got a Mother Gone Home,” 1951
music clip of the day
jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
Category: gospel
2018
Sunday, November 25th
back to church
Together As One Hymn Choir, “I Feel Good,” live, Ebenezer Baptist Church, Rock Hill, S.C., 2002
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lagniappe
reading table
The lonesome for they know not What –
—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), from 326 (Franklin)
2018
Sunday, November 18th
three takes
“God Has Smiled on Me”
Rev. James Cleveland (1931-1991), live, Oh Happy Day, 2004
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Lester Bowie (1941-1999, trumpet, MCOTD Hall of Fame), with Amina Claudine Myers (piano, vocals), Arthur Blythe (alto saxophone), Malachi Favors (bass), Phillip Wilson (drums), 1978
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Don Pullen (piano), George Adams (tenor saxophone), live, Italy (Perugia), 1984
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lagniappe
reading table
mountain temple—
deep under snow
a bell—Kobayashi Issa, 1763-1827 (translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue)
2018
Sunday, November 11th
timeless
Five Soul Stirrers (feat. R. H. Harris), “Walk Around” (R. H. Harris), 1939
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lagniappe
art beat
Helen Levitt (1913-2009, MCOTD Hall of Fame), New York, c. 1940
2018
Sunday, November 4th
two takes
“When the Gates Swing Open” (T. A. Dorsey)
Otis Clay (1942-2016), live, Chicago, c. 2007
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Al Green (1946-), live, Memphis, 1983
Video | 2018
Sunday, October 28th
back to church
“Read God’s Letter All Night Long,” Mt. Ramah Primitive Baptist Association, Beauty Grove Primitive Baptist Church, Thomaston, Ga., 2010
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lagniappe
random sights
July 28, 2018, off the Maine coast
2018
Sunday, October 21st
sounds of Chicago
Caravans (feat. Albertina Walker, Inez Andrews), “Willing to Wait,” live (TV show), Chicago, 1967
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Maywood, Ill. (Prairie Path)
2018
Sunday, October 14th
back to church
“My Soul Is a Witness for My Lord,” Mt. Ramah Primitive Baptist Association, Thomaston, Ga., 2011
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lagniappe
reading table
A string of raindrops
dangling
from an iron bar reveals
opportunities for
clarity.***
As if you could escape
by followingthe path you carved
thereto its prescribed end.
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As if, after all,
the thing that comes to mind
squared
times inertiaequaled the “real.”
—Rae Armantrout (1947-), from “Worth While,” “Inscription,” “Equals” (Versed [2009])
2018
Sunday, October 7th
back to church
Who needs instruments?
“Look Where He Brought Me From,” Mt. Carmel Primitive Baptist Church, Ideal, Ga., Easter Sunday, 2011
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lagniappe
random sights
July 22, 2018, Monhegan Island, Maine
2018
Sunday, September 30th
back to church
Elder Nathan Rolle, “This May Be My Last Time,” live, Thomaston, Ga., 2010
music clip of the day 