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Category: guitar

Friday, August 16th

like nobody else

James Blood Ulmer (guitar, vocals) with Amin Ali (bass), Cornell Rochester (drums), live Berlin, 1981

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other day, Chicago

 Sunday, August 4th

testify!

Bishop Perry Tillis (1919-2004, guitar), live, Savior Lord Jesus Pentecostal Church, Samson, Alabama, 1995

Saturday, July 20th

what’s new

Sylvie Courvoisier (piano, compositions), Chimaera, with Christian Fennesz (guitar, electronics), Nate Wooley (trumpet), Wadada Leo Smith (trumpet), Kenny Wollesen (vibraphone, drums), Drew Gress (bass), Nasheet Waits (drums), live, Amsterdam, 7/13/24

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yesterday, Chicago

Saturday, July 6th

two takes

“Crying” (Roy Orbison, Joe Melson)

Roy Orbison (1936-1988), 1961

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Julian Lage (1987-, guitar), live, Chicago, 2022

Sunday, June 30th

MCOTD Hall of Fame

Today he is being inducted into the MCOTD Hall of Fame, where he joins drummer Hamid Drake (1955-); saxophonists Henry Threadgill (1944-) and Von Freeman (1923-2012); trumpeter Lester Bowie (1941-1999); gospel singer Dorothy Love Coates (1928-2002); composer Morton Feldman (1926-1987); poets John Berryman (1914-1972), William Bronk (1918-1999), and Wislawa Szymborska (1923-2012); and photographer Helen Levitt (1913-2009). 

Blind Willie Johnson (1897-1945), “Trouble Will Soon Be Over” (1930)

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Sunday, June 2nd

testify!

Pastor J. R. Jones, “This Joy I Have,” live, Baton Rouge (City of David Church of God), 1992

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Sunday, May 19th

testify!

Rev. Dennis “Clay” Jackson (vocals), Rev. Charlie Jackson (guitar), “Lord, You’ve Been Good to Me,” live, Mississippi (Gloster), 1987

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Tuesday, May 14th

like nothing else

Andy Moor (1962-, guitar), Marta Warelis (1986-, piano), live, France (Montreuil), 2023

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Sunday, April 28th

testify!

Rev. Charlie Jackson (1932-2006), “Wrapped Up, Tangled Up in Jesus (C. Jackson), live, possibly Baton Rouge, 1991

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another take (1969)

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Sunday, April 14th

sounds of Gloster, Mississippi

Tylertown Spirituals (with Jimmy Wilson, guitar), live (Veal Brothers’ 12th Anniversary), Gloster, Mississippi, 1987

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