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Category: gospel

Sunday, July 22nd

testify!

Albertina Walker, Rev. James Cleveland, et al., “If I Perish,” live

 

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lagniappe

random sights

yesterday, Monhegan Island, Maine

Sunday, July 15th

more

Marion Williams and Alex Bradford, “Take Me to the Water,” live, Netherlands (Utrecht), 1962

 

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lagniappe

random sights

yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.

Sunday, July 8th

In case you need a reminder.

“Mean Old World,” Marion Williams and the Stars of Faith, live, Netherlands (Utrecht), 1962

 

Sunday, July 1st

timeless

Soul Stirrers (feat. Sam Cooke), “Nearer to Thee,” live, Los Angeles, 1955

 

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lagniappe

random sights

this morning, Chicago (Columbus Park)

Sunday, June 24th

when blues meets gospel

Robert Ward (1938-2008; vocals, guitar), “Lord Have Mercy on Me,” 1991

 

Sunday, June 17th

back to church

Cosmopolitan Church of Prayer Choir (feat. Diane Williams), “Jesus Can Work It Out,” live, Chicago, 2007

 

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random sights

this morning, outside Chicago (Salt Creek Trail)

Sunday, June 10th

voices I miss

Prince (vocals, piano), “Mary, Don’t You Weep” (rec. 1983)

 

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lagniappe

random sights

other day, Oak Park, Ill.

Sunday, May 27th

Back to church.

Live, Detroit (Church of the Living God)

 

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lagniappe

random sights

other night, Oak Park, Ill.

Sunday, May 20th

six takes

“Nobody’s Fault but Mine” (aka “It’s Nobody’s Fault but Mine”)

Ry Cooder, 2018

 

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Pops Staples, 2015 (recorded 1998)

 

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Willie Nelson, 2010

 

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Nina Simone, 1969

 

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Sister Rosetta Tharpe, 1949

 

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Blind Willie Johnson, 1927

 

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random sights

last night, Oak Park, Ill.

Sunday, April 29th

MCOTD Hall of Fame

Dorothy Love Coates and The Gospel Harmonettes, “They Won’t Believe” (D. L. Coates), 1970

 

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lagniappe

random sights

this morning, Chicago (Columbus Park)