Sunday, July 16th
I want you all to know I’m not going to stop singing when I die.
—Robert Blair (1930-2001)
Robert Blair & The Fantastic Violinaires, “Sing with the Angels”
Live, Rocky Mount, N.C.
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jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
Category: gospel
2017
2017
Sunday, June 25th
two takes
“Jesus Will Fix It”
Lee Williams, live
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Al Green, live, Tokyo, 1987
2017
Sunday, June 18th
gospel, n., adj. Good news.
Mahalia Jackson (1911-1972), “Amazing Grace” (lyrics by John Newton, 1725-1807), live
2017
Sunday, June 11th
timeless
Charley (AKA “Charlie”) Patton (c. 1881-1934), “Some Happy Day,” 1929
SOME HAPPY DAY
Some day, some happy day, from sin set free
I’ll live with Christ for ages, some day, some dayMy trials will fewer be, some day, some day
When I shall have eternal home, some day, some day
Some day I’ll be in the entrance here, some day, some dayAdapted by Patton from “Some Day”, words by J. Graydon Hall, music by H. E. Barnett (Courtesy of YouTube)
2017
Sunday, May 28th
three takes
“Surely I Will,” AKA “I’m Bound for Mt. Zion”
Voices of Faith
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Margaret Allison & The Angelic Gospel Singers, live, Birmingham, Ala., 1997
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Martha Carol Giese, live
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lagniappe
reading table
one breeze
reaches the cellar . . .
summer moon—Kobayashi Issa, 1763-1827 (translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue)
2017
Sunday, May 21st
old school
Robert Blair & The Fantastic Violinaires, “Where He Leads Me,” live, North Carolina (Wilson), 1988
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lagniappe
art beat
Lee Friedlander (1934-), Washington, D.C., May 17, 1957*
*Demonstration commemorating the third anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education.
2017
Sunday, May 14th
like nobody else
Rev. Utah Smith (1906-1965), “Two Wings,” 1953
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lagniappe
art beat
Helen Levitt (1913-2009, MCOTD Hall of Fame), New York, c. 1940
2017
Sunday, May 7th
sounds of Chicago
Inez Andrews (1929-2012), “Just For Me,” live
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lagniappe
art beat
Danny Lyon (1942-), Chicago (Uptown), 1965
2017
Sunday, April 30th
old school
Friendly Seven, “I Had a Talk,” 1973
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lagniappe
art beat
Danny Lyon (1942-), southeast Georgia, 1962
USA. Georgia. 1962. Charles SHERROD (standing at right), Field Secretary for the SNCC, and civil rights activist Randy BATTLE visit a supporter in the Georgia countryside.
2017
Sunday, April 16th
back to church
“He Set Me Free,” Mt. Do-Well Baptist Church, McConnells, S.C., 1991
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Chicago (Monadnock Building)
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