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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Category: guitar
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Sunday, August 4th
testify!
Bishop Perry Tillis (1919-2004, guitar), live, Savior Lord Jesus Pentecostal Church, Samson, Alabama, 1995
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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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