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D’Angelo (with Questlove, drums; Pino Palladino, bass; Kuumba Frank Lacy, trombone, trumpet; Chalmers “Spanky” Alford, guitar; Anthony Hamilton, vocals, et al.), live, Switzerland (Montreux Jazz Festival), 2000

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musical thoughts

No stage anywhere in the world can compare with the one that exists in the imagination. Where else can you find Jimi Hendrix jamming with Miles Davis? Sam Cooke singing with Smokey Robinson? Sly Stone taking everybody higher with Sun Ra?

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Happy Birthday, Suzanne!

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2013

Friday, July 5th

tonight

These guys will be at FitzGerald’s (see yesterday’s post)—me, too.

St. Paul and the Broken Bones, “Broken Bones and Pocket Change,” live, Nashville, 2012

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Went to Mercury Lounge tonite. I have seen the future of music & the name of the band is St. Paul & the Broken Bones.

—Rosanne Cash, Twitter, 6/5/13

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2013

Friday, June 28th

what’s new

Mavis Staples, “I Like The Things About Me” (R. Staples & M. Stubbs), One True Vine, 6/13

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random thoughts

Language, no matter how much it’s used, never seems to get used up. Take this sentence, for instance, which opens Donald Ray Pollock’s story collection Knockemstiff: “My father showed me how to hurt a man one August night at the Torch Drive-in when I was seven years old.” Not one of these words is unusual, nor is the syntax. But this particular set of words, in this particular order, never existed before. How improbable is that?

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2013

Tuesday, June 25th

passings

Bobby “Blue” Bland, singer, January 27, 1930-June 23, 2013

“I’ll Take Care Of You,” 1959

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“I Pity The Fool,” 1961

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“That’s The Way Love Is,” 1963

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“Call On Me,” 1962

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“Ain’t Nothing You Can Do,” 1964

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“Turn On Your Love Light,” 1961

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2013

Friday, June 21st

old school

The Miracles (AKA, beginning in 1965, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles), live (TV shows), 1960s

“You Really Got A Hold On Me”

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“Ooo Baby Baby” (AKA “Ooh Baby Baby”)

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reading table

As life proceeds, and the long journey is recognised for what it is, the look that is cast back unconsciously falsifies. That there were winters is a fact which is discarded, seemingly forgotten. And the longing for more summer, more life, intensifies as the dark days wear on, as if light and life have become interchangeable, as perhaps they are.

—Anita Brookner, Dolly

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2013

Saturday, June 8th

sounds of Chicago

Bangs & Works Vol. 2 (The Best of Chicago Footwork), 2011

Jlin, “Erotic Heat”

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Young Smoke, “Space Muzik Pt. 3”

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RP Boo, “Off Da Hook”

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2013

Saturday, May 25th

sounds of Chicago

The Chosen Few Picnic, Jackson Park, 7/12

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radio

Beginning at 3 p.m. and going ’til midnight (EST), WFMU-FM will be featuring sounds from this weekend’s Primavera Sound Festival (Barcelona):

3:00 Swans
4:20 Orchestra Poly Rhythmo de Cotonou
4:50 Guardian Alien
5:30 Goat
6:00 Tinariwen
6:20 Mulatu Astatke
6:45 Death Grips
7:10 Thee Oh Sees
7:40 Meat Puppets
8:15 Dan Deacon
9:00 Jesus and Mary Chain
9:30 Dead Can Dance
10:00 Nurse With Wound
11:00 Omar Souleyman
11:30 Wu-Tang Clan