Friday, 9/9/11
two takes
“Death Letter Blues” (S. House)
Son House, live (TV broadcast), 1967
Vodpod videos no longer available.*****
The White Stripes, live, France (Paris), 2007
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music clip of the day
jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
Category: guitar
2011
Sunday, 9/4/11
The Dixie Hummingbirds (with Ira Tucker, lead vocals), “If You See My Savior” (T. Dorsey), live (TV broadcast), early 1960s
With a voice like this, who needs words?
(Listen, for instance, at :55 and 1:50.)
More? Here.
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lagniappe
listening room: (some of) what’s playing
• Theo Parrish, Sound Sculptures Vol. 1 (Sound Signature)
• Various artists, Goodbye Babylon (Dust-to-Digital)
• Sun Ra, Jazz in Silhouette (Evidence)
• Anthony Braxton, For Alto (Delmark)
• Fred Anderson, Timeless (Delmark)
• Bach, Suites for Unaccompanied Cello/Steven Isserlis (Hyperion UK [import])
• Alfred Schnittke, Piano Quintet, String Trio, etc. (Naxos)
• Morton Feldman, For Bunita Marcus, Stephane Ginsburgh, piano (Sub Rosa) (available as a download from Amazon for 89¢)
• WKCR-FM (broadcasting from Columbia University)
—Lester Young/Charlie Parker birthday marathon
—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)
2011
Friday, 9/2/11
only rock ’n roll
The Dirtbombs, live, New York (Other Music), 2009
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reading table
to the west
is Buddha’s paradise . . .
withered fields—Kobayashi Issa (trans. David G. Lanoue), 1819
2011
Wednesday, 8/31/11
passings
Jerry Lieber, songwriter, April 25, 1933-August 22, 2011
Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton, “Hound Dog” (J. Lieber & M. Stoller), live (TV broadcast; Buddy Guy, guitar; Fred Below, drums), Europe, 1965 (originally recorded 1952)
Vodpod videos no longer available.(Originally posted 12/10/10.)
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Nick Ashford, songwriter, singer, May 4, 1941-August 22, 2011
Ashford & Simpson, “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” (N. Ashford & V. Simpson), live
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David “Honeyboy” Edwards, singer, guitar player, June 28, 1915-
August 29, 2011
Live, WBEZ-FM (Chicago), 2008
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Saturday, 8/20/11
You may find it difficult to remember someone’s favorite foods or to recall their favorite movies. But their favorite music? Today’s my mother’s birthday; she’s been gone a long time. This guy she loved.
The King Cole Trio (Nat King Cole, piano & vocals; Oscar Moore, guitar; Johnny Miller, bass), “It is Better to Be by Yourself” (Breakfast in Hollywood, 1946)
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lagniappe
art beat: more from Thursday’s stop at Chicago’s Art Institute
Hiroshi Yoshida, Three Little Islands (1930)
2011
Friday, 8/19/11
sounds of Nigeria
Fela Kuti, live (filmed by Ginger Baker), Nigeria (Calabar), 1971
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lagniappe
art beat: yesterday at Chicago’s Art Institute
Oda Kazuma, Catching Whitebait at Nakaumi, Izumo (1924)
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Mark Rothko, Untitled, 1953-54
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reading table
. . . life, that storm before the calm.
—Wislawa Szymborska, from “Negative” (trans. Clare Cavanagh & Stanislaw Baranczak, Monologue of a Dog [2006])
2011
Friday, 8/12/11
only rock ’n’ roll
(an occasional series)
MC5, “Kick Out The Jams,” live, Detroit, 1970
Vodpod videos no longer available.Rock ’n’ roll, requiring no formal training, depending more on verve than virtuosity, is a kind of folk music. Folk music, at its best, evokes a particular place. Can you imagine these guys coming out of, say, San Francisco?
2011
Monday, 8/8/11
only rock ’n roll
(an occasional series)
Coldplay, “Rehab” (Amy Winehouse)/“Fix You”
Live, Chicago (Lollapalooza), 8/5/11
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lagniappe
reading table
when I’m dead
who’ll wear it next?
new summer robe—Kobayashi Issa, 1817 (trans. David G. Lanoue)
2011
Friday, 8/5/11
three takes
“Grown So Ugly” (Robert Pete Williams)
I got so ugly, I don’t even know myself . . .
Black Keys
Live, Nashville (Grimey’s Record Store), 2006
More? Here.
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Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band (with Ry Cooder, guitar)
Safe As Milk, 1967
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Robert Pete Williams
Free Again, 1961
This is, to these ears, one of the greatest—most vivid, most haunting—songs in all of blues.
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