Monday, February 17th
sounds of Chicago
Baby Huey (AKA James Ramey, 1944-1970), “Listen To Me,” 1971 (Curtom)
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lagniappe
art beat: more from Thursday’s stop at the Art Institute of Chicago
Joan Mitchell (1925-1992), City Landscape, 1955
music clip of the day
jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
Category: R&B
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Friday, February 14th
What could be more romantic?
Bo Diddley (1928-2008), live, 1981
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Tuesday, January 28th
This just in from my son Luke (now twenty-two, living in Kansas City):
Did you see Stevie Wonder last night with Daft Punk?
Stevie Wonder, Pharrell Williams, Daft Punk, “Get Lucky,” live (Grammy Awards), 1/26/14
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Friday, January 24th
sweet soul music
Al Green, live, 1974
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Thursday, January 23rd
sweet soul music
Larry Hargrove, “Gone On Pt. 2,” live, c. 2010
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Friday, December 27th
sweet soul music
D’Angelo and The Soultronics (Questlove, drums; Pino Palladino, bass; Chalmers “Spanky” Alford, guitar; Frank Lacy, trombone, trumpet; Anthony Hamilton, vocals, et al.), “Send It On,” live, London, 2000
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lagniappe
art beat
Helen Levitt (1913-2009), New York, c. 1940
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Tuesday, December 10th
keep on dancing
Theo Parrish, live, London (Boiler Room), 2013
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lagniappe
reading table
Nothing in the cry
of cicadas suggests they
are about to die—Matsuo Basho (1644-1694; translated from Japanese by Sam Hamill)
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the beat goes on
Fifteen hundred posts—and counting.
2013
Friday, November 15th
yeeeowww!
James Brown, “Sex Machine,” “There Was a Time,” “I Got the Feelin’,” live (TV show), 1982
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lagniappe
art beat
Dawoud Bey (1953-), New York (Harlem), 1970s
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Wednesday, October 23rd
sounds of Chicago
Here’s another track I co-produced long ago, in a world without CDs, or MP3s, or Internet.
Pinetop Perkins (1913-2011), “Blues After Hours” (Living Chicago Blues, Vol. 2, Alligator Records, 1978)
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lagniappe
art beat
Helen Levitt (1913-2009), New York, c. 1940
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Saturday, October 19th
sounds of Chicago
Baby Huey, “Hard Times” (C. Mayfield), 1971
Stand Up Guys, 2012
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lagniappe
art beat
Helen Levitt (1913-2009), New York, c. 1940
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