Sunday, December 3rd
sounds of Detroit
The Pure Heart Travelers, “The Lord Will Make a Way Somehow” (T. Dorsey), live, Detroit, 7/12/17
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lagniappe
random sights
this morning, Oak Park, Ill.
music clip of the day
jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
Category: gospel
2017
Sunday, November 26th
sounds of Detroit
DJ Tony Peoples, Detroit gospel house mix (“souls on fire,” “thankful praise,” “thank you lord,” “king of kings,” “high priest”)
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Chicago (Columbus Park)
2017
Sunday, October 29th
old school
Willie Neal Johnson (1935-2001) & The Gospel Keynotes, “Jesus, You’ve Been Good To Me,” live, Jackson, Miss.
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lagniappe
random sights
this morning, Oak Park, Ill.
(Taking a break—back in a while.)
2017
Sunday, October 22nd
old school
Lee Williams and The Spiritual QC’s, “Running for My Life,” “Let’s Get Down,” live, c. 2010
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lagniappe
reading table
The autumn chill becomes part of me
in the bedroom I step on a comb
that belonged to my dead wife—Yosa Buson, 1716-1784 (translated from Japanese by W.S. Merwin and Takako Lento)
2017
Sunday, October 15th
three takes
“I Won’t Be Back” (AKA “Sweepin’ Through the City”)
Caravans (feat. Shirley Caesar, 1938-)
Live, Boston (Boston University), 1960s
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Recording, 1962
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Shirley Caesar
Live, Tulsa, Okla., 2001
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lagniappe
reading table
They end their flight
one by one—
crows at dusk.—Yosa Buson, 1716-1784 (translated from Japanese by Robert Hass)
2017
Sunday, October 8th
MCOTD Hall of Fame
Nobody sounds like her—nobody.
Dorothy Love Coates (1928-2002) & the Original Gospel Harmonettes, “99 and a Half Won’t Do” (D.L. Coates), 1956
2017
Sunday, October 1st
more
Theotis Taylor, “Somebody’s Gone,” 1976
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Talking, Fitzgerald, Ga., 2017
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lagniappe
art beat
Lonnie Holley (1950-), After the Revival (Vox Humana III: The Strength of Music Lives After the Instruments Are Destroyed), 2017
2017
Sunday, September 24th
Bumping into something wonderful you never heard before—something you didn’t even know existed—can lift up your entire week, as this did mine when I encountered it the other day (WFMU, Sinner’s Crossroads, 9/21/17 [archived]).
Theotis Taylor, “If I Could Just Hold out until Tomorrow,” live, Atlanta, c. 1976
2017
Sunday, September 17th
old school
Lil Blair and The Violinaires, “Tell Me How Long,” live, North Carolina (near Wilmington), 2007
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lagniappe
random sights
this morning, outside Chicago (Dean Nature Sanctuary)
2017
Sunday, September 10th
Aretha testifies
Live, Detroit (New Bethel Church), 1987
