two takes
“Strange Man” (D. L. Coates)
Steve Dawson (lead vocals, guitar), Diane Christensen (vocals), Robbie Fulks (vocals, guitar), live, Chicago, 2013
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Dorothy Love Coates (1928-2002; MCOTD Hall-of-Famer), recording, 1968
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random thoughts
Do the Canada geese, seeing me ride by on my bicycle, feel like they’re communing with nature?
three takes
“What Would You Give in Exchange for Your Soul”
Marty Stuart (vocals, mandolin) & Del McCoury (vocals, guitar)
Live (TV show), 2009
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Bill Monroe (vocals, mandolin) & Doc Watson (vocals, guitar)
Recording, 1963
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Johnny Cash
Live (TV interview)
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lagniappe
art beat
Helen Levitt (1913-2009), New York, 1940
two takes
“I Know I’ve Been Changed”
St. James Missionary Baptist Church, Canton, Miss., 1978
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Tom Waits, c. 2006
back to church
Mt. Do-Well Baptist Church Hymn Choir, “You’re Gonna Need a Friend,” live, McConnells, S.C., 1991
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lagniappe
art beat: more from Monday at the Art Institute of Chicago
Josef Koudelka (1938-), Slovakia, 1963 (from Gypsies)
Nationality Doubtful, closes today
His music, which I’ve been listening to for over forty years, never grows old. If anything, the opposite is true. Year after year, it gets stronger, deeper, fresher.
Blind Willie Johnson, “Trouble Will Soon Be Over” (with Willie B. Harris), 1929
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lagniappe
reading table
I love the past tense, but you can’t live there.
—John Koethe, “Stele” (fragment; ROTC Kills, 2012)
back to church
Nazareth Missionary Baptist Church Hymn Choir (Rock Hill, S.C.),”I Got Shoes,” live, McConnells, S.C. (Mt. Do-Well Missionary Baptist Church), 2001
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lagniappe
musical thoughts
Mission: To transmit the tenderness of the human spirit through the disciplined action of a human body.
—pianist Marilyn Nonken (featured yesterday, heard last night in Chicago)
sounds of Chicago
Victory Travelers, live, Chicago, 2013
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lagniappe
art beat
Lee Friedlander (1934-), Chicago, 1968
four takes
“Swing Low, Sweet Chariot”
Isaiah, live, Chicago, 2014
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Albert Ayler, recording, 1964
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Parliament Funkadelic (“Swing Down, Sweet Chariot”), live Houston, 1976
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Fisk University Jubilee Quartet, recording, 1909
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