Here are two more takes on the song we heard Sunday (“Leaning on the Everlasting Arms”)—both from Hollywood.
Robert Mitchum with Lillian Gish, The Night of the Hunter, 1955
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Van Johnson, et al., A Human Comedy, 1943
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art beat: more from Friday at the Art Institute of Chicago
Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), A Peasant Woman Digging in Front of Her Cottage, c. 1885
three takes
“Leaning on the Everlasting Arms” (A. Showalter, E. Hoffman)
Five Blind Boys of Mississippi, live (TV show)
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Mahalia Jackson, live (TV show), 1961
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Iris Dement, recording (Lifeline), 2010
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art beat: Friday at the Art Institute of Chicago
Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), Self-Portrait, 1887
old school
Dixie Hummingbirds, We Love You Like a Rock (excerpts), 1995
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reading table
You would think that living is a kind of scholarship in time, and that the longer we live the more expert we become at coping with it, in the way that, if you play tennis enough, you get used to coping with faster and faster serves. Instead I find that the longer I live the more bemused I become, and the more impenetrable the subject shows itself to be. I sit on a heap of days.
—Samantha Harvey, Dear Thief (James Wood, “Fly Away,” New Yorker, 12/8/14)
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taking a break
I’m taking some time off—back in a while.
old school
Sensational Nightingales (feat. Julius Cheeks, lead vocals), “I Want To Go,” 1961
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Bruce Davidson (1933-), New York (Harlem), c. 1966
Back to church.
Whitney Houston (1963-2012), “God Will Take Care of You,” live (11:35-16:35), Evangelical Fellowship Church (Dr. Fred Jenkins Jr.), Pleasantville, N.J., 1998
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Helen Levitt (1913-2009), New York, 1980
Before Jerry Lee, before Little Richard, there was . . .
Arizona Dranes (c. 1891-1963), “My Soul Is a Witness for the Lord,” 1926
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Danny Lyon (1942-), Albany, Ga. (Shiloh Baptist Church), 1962
That gospel feeling is in all of this music.
—Solomon Burke
Soul Deep: The Story of Black Popular Music, Episode 2: Sam Cooke, with Mavis Staples, Bobby Womack, Solomon Burke, Ben E. King, et al., BBC, 2005
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art beat: more from Friday at the Art Institute of Chicago
Arshile Gorky (1904-1948), The Plough and the Song, 1946
back to church
“I Don’t Mind,” live, St. Luke Baptist Church, Sharon, South Carolina, 2003
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reading table
harvest moon—
I tell you it’s cold
on Shinano Mountain!—Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827; translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue)
basement jukebox
The Capitalaires, “Holy Ghost” (c. 1964)
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reading table
This road—
no one goes down it,
autumn evening.—Matsuo Basho (1644-1694; translated from Japanese by Robert Hass)
more sounds from Louisiana
Follow Me Down: Portraits of Louisiana Prison Musicians (trailer), 2012
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Music from the Big House (excerpt), 2010
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Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004), Louisiana, 1947
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