voices I miss
Junior Wells (vocals, harmonica [1934-1998]) with Otis Rush (guitar [1935-2018]), Jack Myers (bass [c. 1937-2011]), Fred Below (drums [1926-1988]), “Hoodoo Man Blues,” live, Berlin, 1966
what’s new
Fay Victor’s SoundNoiseFUNK (FV, vocals, compositions; Joe Morris, guitar; Sam Newsome, soprano saxophone; Reggie Nicholson, drums), live, New York, 10/13/18
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lagniappe
reading table
I can’t tell you – but you feel it –
Nor can you tell me –—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), from 164 (Franklin)
more
Otis Rush (vocals, guitar) with Little Brother Montgomery (piano), Jack Myers (bass), Fred Below (drums), live, Berlin, 1966
“All Your Love (I Miss Loving)”
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“Sweet Little Angel”
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lagniappe
reading table
The silence will be sudden then last.
—Deborah Landau, from “The Silence Will Be Sudden Then Last” (Poetry, 10/18)
Need a break from the incessant noise?
Jürg Frey (1953-), Canones Incerti (2010), Jürg Frey (clarinet), et al., live
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lagniappe
baseball
Baseball is such a perfect game in some ways that it takes 162 to decide nothing.
—Cubs manager Joe Maddon on the Cubs/Brewers tie
basement jukebox
Otis Rush (1934-)
“All Your Love (I Miss Loving),” 1958
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“I Can’t Quit You Baby,” 1956
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“Double Trouble,” 1958
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lagniappe
found words
Actor we forgot was married to a model
—AOL
what’s new
Tom Waits (vocals) and Marc Ribot (guitar), “Bella Ciao (Goodbye Beautiful),” 9/12/18 (Marc Ribot, Songs of Resistance 1942-2018)