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Monday, May 30th

Vancouver folkie + iconic Memphis rhythm section.

This should never have worked.

But it does, wonderfully.

Frazey Ford, “September Fields” (Indian Ocean), 2014


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lagniappe

reading table

The climate is pretty.
I wrote everything on it.
That’s the activity where it
gets relatively inauspicious.

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And you were sitting there
in the night of life. It sure was good.
My favorite desserts were there.
And when they invite you, it’s like an important document
goes missing. I’ll give you an example:
a twelve-year struggle upstate, in
the slick atmosphere of the breakfast room.
It might have gotten stuck in her farthingale.

Otherwise no reply.

—John Ashbery (1927-), “As Someone Who Likes Travel,” fragments (New Yorker, 5/30/16)

To read Ashbery is to read English as a foreign language—which I mean as a compliment.

Sunday, November 8th

regal, adj. Characteristic of or resembling a monarch; splendid, magnificent, stately; distinguished. E.g., Mahalia Jackson.

Mahalia Jackson (1911-1972), “These Are They,” live (TV show), 1956 (Rejoice and Shout [2010], commentary by Smokey Robinson and Anthony Heilbut)

Friday, November 6th

voices I miss

Albert Collins (1932-1993), “If Trouble Was Money,” live, 1990


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random sights

yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.

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Saturday, September 19th

voices I miss

Lester Bowie’s New York Organ Ensemble (LB [1941-1999, MCOTD Hall of Fame], trumpet; Frank Lacy, trombone; James Carter, tenor saxophone; Spencer Barefield, guitar; Kathy Farmer, organ; Famoudou Don Moye, drums), live, Spain (Madrid), 1992

Time for just one?

Try “Somewhere” (L. Bernstein, S. Sondheim), 11:45-.

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art beat

Vivian Maier (1926-2009), Chicago (Maxwell Street), 1967

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Sunday, August 16th

old school

Who needs a microphone?

Jessie Mae Renfro, “I Must Tell Jesus,” 1953


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lagniappe

random sights

yesterday, Chicago

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Friday, July 17th

timeless

Otis Redding (with Booker T. & the M.G.’s, Sam & Dave), live, 1967

Sunday, April 12th

MCOTD Hall of Fame

Dorothy Love Coates (1928-2002), “How Much More”


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random sights

yesterday, Ashland Ave. at 19th St., Chicago

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Tuesday, March 31st

two takes

Buddy Miller, “Chalk” (J. Miller), live

With Don Was (bass), et al., 2007


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With Patty Griffin (vocals), et al., San Francisco, 2010

 

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art beat: more from Friday at the Art Institute of Chicago

Joseph Cornell (1903-1972), Ann—In Memory, 1954

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Sunday, March 1st

sounds of Chicago

Inez Andrews (1929-2012), “Come In,” live (The Remarkable Inez Andrews), Chicago, 1980

Sunday, February 8th

old school

Soul Revivals, “If You Miss Me,” c. 1975


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lagniappe

reading table

Speak, You Also
by Paul Celan (1920-1970, translated from German by Michael Hamburger)

Speak, you also,
speak as the last,
have your say.

Speak—
But keep yes and no unsplit.
And give your say this meaning:
give it the shade.

Give it shade enough,
give it as much
as you know has been dealt out between
midnight and midday and midnight.

Look around:
look how it all leaps alive—
where death is! Alive!
He speaks truly who speaks the shade.

But now shrinks the place where you stand:
Where now, stripped by shade, will you go?
Upward. Grope your way up.
Thinner you grow, less knowable, finer.
Finer: a thread by which
it wants to be lowered, the star:
to float farther down, down below
where it sees itself gleam: in the swell
of wandering words.