basement jukebox
Tina Harvey, “Nowhere To Run” (Holland-Dozier-Holland), 1972
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Ted Taylor, “You Got To Feel It,” 1969
Let’s end the week where we began—Europe, 1967, Sam & Dave.
“Hold On, I’m Comin'” (with Booker T. & the M.G.’s* and The Mar-Keys**), Norway
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lagniappe
random thoughts
The Internet, which reminds us, repeatedly, that there is here and then is now, may make Buddhists of us all.
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*Booker T. Jones, organ; Steve Cropper, guitar; Donald “Duck” Dunn, bass; Al Jackson, Jr., drums.
**Wayne Jackson, trumpet; Andrew Love & Joe Arnold, tenor saxophones.
If you’d been in the back seat the other night, as my son Luke was zooming down the Kennedy Expressway—he was taking me home before heading back to school in Bloomington—here’s one of the things you would’ve heard jumping out of the radio.
J. Cole, “Power Trip” (feat. Miguel), 2013
keep on dancing
Moodymann (AKA Moody), “Anotha Black Sunday” (2009)
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lagniappe
random thoughts
One benefit of getting older, I’ve found, is that you develop a keener appreciation for just how much you have to be humble about.
two takes
“When Something Is Wrong With My Baby” (I. Hayes & D. Porter)
Sam & Dave, live, Germany (Offenbach), 1967
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Isaac Hayes, TV Show (Top of the Pops), England, 1995
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lagniappe
reading table
“The World Contracted to a Recognizable Image”
by William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)at the small end of an illness
there was a picture
probably Japanese
which filled my eyean idiotic picture
except it was all I recognized
the wall lived for me in that picture
I clung to it as a fly
a week in New Orleans: day five
Big Freedia
“Na Who Mad,” 2011
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Talking, walking around town, performing, etc.
Pitchfork TV, 2013
a week in New Orleans: day two
Bon Mardi Gras
Professor Longhair, December 19, 1918-January 30, 1980
“Mardi Gras in New Orleans” (AKA “Go to the Mardi Gras”), 1950
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“Big Chief”
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“Tipitina” (with the Meters)
old school
Lee Fields & The Expressions, “Faithful Man,” 2012
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lagniappe
reading table
[W]e live in a place/That is not our own and, much more, not ourselves.
—Wallace Stevens (1879-1955), “Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction”
You can only hear with the ears you’ve got. And the ones I’ve got came of age in another era. But is it merely reflexive nostalgia to ask: Is there anything today—anything at all—that can compare with this?
Otis Redding (1941-1967), with Booker T. & the M.G.’s* and The Mar-Keys,** “I’ve Been Loving You Too Long” (O. Redding & J. Butler), live, Monterey Pop Festival, 1967
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lagniappe
reading table
What advice would you give to people who are looking to be happy?
For starters, learn how to cook.
—“Questions for Charles Simic: In-Verse Thinking,” interview by Deborah Solomon, New York Times, 2/3/08
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*Booker T. Jones, organ; Steve Cropper, guitar; Donald “Duck” Dunn, bass; Al Jackson, Jr., drums.
**Wayne Jackson, trumpet; Joe Arnold, alto saxophone; Andrew Love, tenor saxophone.
basement jukebox
Robert Ward, “I Will Fear No Evil,” mid-1960s
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lagniappe
radio: Happy (89th) Birthday, Max!
WKCR-FM, celebrating the birthday of drummer Max Roach (1924-2007), is featuring his music all day.
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