Sunday, July 17th
sounds of Chicago
Soul Stirrers (feat. Willie Rogers), “A Change Is Gonna Come” (S. Cooke)
Live, 1989
music clip of the day
jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
Category: gospel
2016
2016
Sunday, July 3rd
old school
Bonner Brothers, “Stand By Me,” live
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lagniappe
art beat
Danny Lyon (1942-), Benny at the Spotlight, Cicero, Illinois, 1966
2016
Sunday, June 26th
two takes
“Never Grow Old,” AKA “Where We’ll Never Grow Old” (James C. Moore)
Aretha Franklin, live, Detroit, 1996
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Vernard Johnson, live, 1973
2016
Sunday, June 19th
testify!
Minister Febe & The Chosen Ones (joined by GeGe of True Anointing, Birmingham, Ala.), “Everybody Saw Me When I Fell,” live
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lagniappe
reading table
The Soul has Bandaged moments –
—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), 360 (Franklin), fragment
2016
Sunday, June 12th
sounds of Chicago
Windy City Spiritualaires with Willie Clayton, “I’m Gonna Run On,” live (music starts at 4:05-), Birmingham, Ala., 2000
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lagniappe
yesterday on Chicago’s south side
Treme Brass Band, Washington Park
2016
Sunday, June 5th
yesterday in Chicago
I heard these folks in Millennium Park, at the thirty-first annual Gospel Fest. Rain had been falling, but it stopped. Slowly, dark skies gave way to sunshine.
Brian Courtney Wilson, “Just Love,” live, Windsor Village United Methodist Church, Houston, Tx.
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William Murphy, “It’s Working,” live, Newbirth Missionary Baptist Church, Lithonia, Ga.
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Shirley Caesar, “No Charge,” live
2016
Sunday, May 29th
sounds of Chicago
Windy City Spiritualaires with Willie Clayton, “Prove It,” live, Birmingham, Ala., 2000
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lagniappe
art beat: other day, Art Institute of Chicago
Aaron Siskind (1903-1991), Glouchester 1H 1944 (Abstractions, through 8/14/16)
2016
Sunday, May 22nd
old school
Tommy Ellison & The Singing Stars, “I’m Not the Same Person,” live, Hempstead, N.Y., 2007
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lagniappe
reading table
I hear a river thro’ the valley wander
Whose water runs, the song alone remaining.—Trumbull Stickney (1874-1904), “Dramatic Fragments,” excerpt
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random sights
yesterday morning, Chicago (Columbus Park)
2016
Sunday, May 8th
You don’t need a lot of different words.
You don’t need the piano to be in tune.
Intensity will carry you.
Rev. George Oliver, “Coming Up Lord Just To Hear My Tune”
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lagniappe
random sights
this morning, Chicago (Columbus Park)
2016
Sunday, May 1st
Who needs instruments?
McCauley Spiritual Singers, c. 1960
“Jesus Gave Me Water”
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“Jesus Said Live Holy”
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lagniappe
reading table
A word that breathes distinctly
Has not the power to die—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), 1715 (Franklin), fragment
(Taking a break—back in a while.)
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