Sunday, September 3rd
old school
Bessemer Sunset Four, “Lord I’m Troubled” (1928-30)
music clip of the day
jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
Category: gospel
2017
Sunday, August 27th
old school
Indiana Travelers (Jimmy Nunn, lead vocals), “Best Friend,” live
(Taking a break—back in a while.)
2017
Sunday, August 20th
old school
Chosen Gospel Singers, “Why Do Men Turn Their Back on God?”
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lagniappe
random sights: other day, outside Chicago (Illinois Prairie Path, Bellwood)
Moms’ Garden
2017
Sunday, August 13th
sounds of Detroit
Pastor Marvin Winans (Perfecting Church, Detroit) and Perfecting Praise Choir, live, Toronto, 2011
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lagniappe
random sights
this morning, outside Chicago (Chicago Botanic Garden)
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reading table
Always Mine!
No more Vacation!
Term of Light this Day begun!
Failless as the fair rotation
Of the Seasons and the Sun –Old the Grace, but new the Subjects –
Old, indeed, the East,
Yet upon His Purple Programme
Every Dawn, is first.—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), 942 (Franklin)
2017
Sunday, August 6th
sounds of Chicago (and St. Louis)
Pastor DeAndre Patterson (Destiny Worship Center, Chicago), live, St. Louis (Kennerly Temple Church of God in Christ), 2016
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lagniappe
art beat
Bruce Davidson (1933-), New York, late 1960s
2017
Sunday, July 30th
another take
Al Green, “Jesus Will Fix It,” live, 1980s
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lagniappe
art beat: other day, Art Institute of Chicago
Lewis Wickes Hine (1874-1940), Playground in a Mill Village (Playground in a Tenement Alley), Boston1909
(Taking a break—back in a while.)
2017
Sunday, July 23rd
old school
Sunset Travelers (feat. O.V. Wright, 1939-1980)
“Lazarus,” 1962
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“You Are Blessed,” 1963
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“On Jesus’ Program,” 1964
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Ireland (outside Dingle)
2017
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.
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
