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Jake Xerxes Fussell (vocals, guitar) with Libby Rodenbough (violin, harmonium, vocals) and Casey Toll (bass), live (“The River St. Johns,” “Have You Ever Seen Peaches Growing on a Sweet Potato Vine?”, “Breast of Glass”), Pittsboro, North Carolina, published 1/25/22
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random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
basement jukebox
Sonny Boy Williamson II, “Help Me” (S. Williamson, W. Dixon, R. Bass), 1963
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random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
There are all kinds of gospel.
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Party, “Akhiyan Udeek Diyan,” live
Nils Økland, Hardanger fiddle
Sigbjørn Apeland, harmonium
“Blond blå,” live
What’s more surprising—that there’s so much ugliness in the world, or so much beauty?
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reading table
Who are we, if not a combination of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined? Each life is an encyclopedia, a library, an inventory of objects, a series of styles, and everything can be constantly reshuffled and reordered in every conceivable way.
—Italo Calvino, Six Memos for the Next Millennium (trans. Patrick Creagh; 1988)
Great horn players don’t play—they sing.
Pharoah Sanders (tenor saxophone, with Paul Arslanian, harmonium), “Kazuko,” live, California (Marin Headland), 1982
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Trane was the father. Pharoah was the son. I was the holy ghost.
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Want more of the late Albertina Walker?
This week’s Gospel Memories (WLUW-FM)—available here—is devoted entirely to her music.
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