Sunday, 7/8/12
back to church
“What I Am,” Mt. Moriah Baptist Church, Chester, S.C.
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lagniappe
found words
Sometimes particles are essentially their own anti-particle.
—Sean Carroll, Science Friday (NPR), 7/7/12
music clip of the day
jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
Category: gospel
2012
2012
Wednesday, 7/4/12
rock ’n’ roll
country
gospel
blues
jazz
A world without American music: what would it sound like?
The Blasters, “American Music,” Champaign, Ill., 1985
(Originally posted 7/5/10.)
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Merle Haggard, “Lonesome Fugitive,” Buck Owens Ranch Show, 1966
(Originally posted 4/6/12.)
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Slim and the Victory Aires, “Alright Now,” Paducah, Ky., 2008
(Originally posted 3/11/12)
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Johnny Shines (1915-1992), vocals, guitar; David “Honeyboy” Edwards (1915-2011), guitar; Big Walter Horton (1917-1981), harmonica; “For The Love of Mike,” 1978
(Originally posted 10/4/11.)
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Von Freeman, tenor saxophone; Clifford Jordan, tenor saxophone (first solo); Willie Pickens, piano; Dan Shapera, bass; Robert Shy, drums; “Oleo” (S. Rollins), Chicago (Chicago Jazz Festival), 1988
(Originally posted 5/3/12.)
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lagniappe
radio
All Pops, all day:
Tune in on July 4th, Independence Day . . . as we celebrate the professed (although according to historians, not actual) birthday of Jazz great and American Hero, the trumpeter and vocalist Louis Armstrong, by playing 24 hours straight of his music, from midnight to midnight.
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encore*
Dave Alvin with the Blasters, “4th of July,” Berwyn, Ill. (Fitzgerald’s), 2010
*By popular demand (see Comments).
2012
Sunday, 7/1/12
Tearing it up on TV
Five Blind Boys of Mississippi (feat. Henry Johnson)
TV Gospel Time, 1960s
“Lord You’ve Been Good To Me”
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“Leaning On The Everlasting Arms”
2012
Sunday, 6/24/12
I don’t want to hear nobody but the drums . . .
—Shirley Caesar
Shirley Caesar (with guests, including Ira Tucker [Dixie Hummingbirds] at 5:30-), “I Feel Like Praising Him,” live
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lagniappe
musical thoughts
It’s always difficult to remember what your name is when you’re in the midst of all this music.
—Daniel Blumin, WFMU-FM, last night’s show
2012
Sunday, 6/17/12
four takes
“I’ll Fly Away,” Albert E. Brumley, 1929 (publ. 1932)
Jerry Lee Lewis and Mickey Gilley
Live (TV show), 1980
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The Caravans (feat. Shirley Caesar)
Recording, 1964
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Bill Monroe and Ralph Stanley
Live, Virginia (Coeburn), 1970s (?)
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Aretha Franklin
Live (Albertina Walker’s home-going service), Chicago, 2010
(This last clip was originally posted on 10/24/10, shortly after Albertina Walker, the leader of the Caravans, passed away.)
2012
Sunday, 6/10/12
Aretha’s father
Rev. C. L. Franklin (1915-1984), live, Dallas
“The Doors of the Church Are Open”/“I Will Trust in the Lord”
(recording ends at 5:55)
One thing I love about this is the ease with which he slides into and out of song (1:20, 2:25, 2:50, etc.). (Or is it all song?)
More? Here.
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taking a break
I’m going to take some time off—back in a bit.
2012
Sunday, 5/27/12
two takes
The Mighty Clouds of Joy (feat. Joe Ligon, lead vocals)
“Steal Away To Jesus”
TV show (TV Gospel Time), early 1960s
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Live, South Carolina (Charleston), 1996
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lagniappe
art beat: yesterday at Harvard’s Sackler Museum (Cambridge, Mass.)
Lyonel Feinenger, Black Ice and Fog on the Burgkuhnauer Allee, November 1928
2012
Sunday, 5/20/12
three takes
“Trials, Troubles, Tribulations” (E.C. Ball)
(AKA “Tribulations”)
Andrew Bird
Live, Nashville (Grimey’s New & Preloved Music), 2009
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Wayne Henderson, Martha Spencer & Jackson Cunningham
Live, Maryland (Rockville), 2010
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E.C. Ball & Lacey Richardson
Recording (Alan Lomax), 1959-60
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lagniappe
listening room: (some of) what’s playing
• Face A Frowning World: An E.C. Ball Memorial Album (Tompkins Square)
• Merle Haggard, If I Could Only Fly (Anti- Records)
• The Canton Spirituals, The Live Experience 1999 (Verity Records)
• Getatchew Mekuria & The Ex & Guests, Moa Anbessa (Terp Records)
• Derek Bailey, Bill Laswell, Tony Williams, Arcana (DIW Records)
• Peter Brotzmann Octet, Machine Gun (FMP)
• Peter Brotzmann Sextet & Quartet, Nipples (Atavistic Records/Unheard Music Series)
• Miles Davis Quintet, Live in Europe 1967 (Columbia)
• Cecil Taylor European Orchestra, Alms/Tiergarten (Spree) (FMP)
• Alfred Cortot, piano, The Master Pianist (EMI, Icon Series)
• Nathan Milstein, violin, J.S. Bach: Sonatas & Partitas (Deutsche Grammaphon)
• Arnold Schoenberg, Das Klavierwerk, Peter Serkin, piano (Arcana)
• WKCR-FM (broadcasting from Columbia University)
—Bird Flight (Phil Schaap, jazz [Charlie Parker])
—Eastern Standard Time (Carter Van Pelt, Jamaican music)
• WFMU-FM
—Mudd Up! (DJ/Rupture, “new bass and beats”)
—Sinner’s Crossroads (Kevin Nutt, gospel)
—Cherry Blossom Clinic (Terre T, rock, etc.)
—Fool’s Paradise (Rex; “Vintage rockabilly, R & B, blues, vocal groups, garage, instrumentals, hillbilly, soul and surf”)
—Downtown Soulville (Mr. Fine Wine, soul, etc.)
• WHPK-FM (broadcasting from University of Chicago)
—The Blues Excursion (Arkansas Red)
2012
Sunday, 5/13/12
Happy Mother’s Day!
“If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again” (J. Whitfield, 1922)
three takes
Ben Harper and The Blind Boys of Alabama (2004)
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The Zion Travelers (1954)
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The Gay Sisters (1951)
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Happy Birthday, Luke!
Twenty-one? It may be true; but, still, it’s impossible.
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