Singers who come out of gospel bring something to everything they touch—conviction.
Bobby Womack, live (Later . . . with Jules Holland, BBC), 10/2 & 5/12
“Please Forgive My Heart” (B. Womack & R. Russell)
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“The Bravest Man in the Universe” (B. Womack & R. Russell)
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lagniappe
reading table
my home village
even behind the outhouse
pure water gushes—Kobayashi Issa, 1812 (translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue)
two takes
“I’ll Take Care Of You” (B. Benton)
Bobby “Blue” Bland, 1959
*****
Gil Scott-Heron, 2010
neo neo soul
D’Angelo, “The Charade,” live, Switzerland (Zurich), 2012
two takes
How To Dress Well (Tom Krell), “Cold Nites”
Live in the Boiler Room, 2012
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Recording (Total Loss), 2012
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lagniappe
reading table
Autumn
the sky huge and clear
the marsh miles from farms and housesoverjoyed by the cranes
standing around the sandbarsthe mountains above the clouds in the distance
this water
utterly still
in the duskthe white moon overhead
I let my boat drift free tonight
I can’t go home.—Wang Wei (701-61), “Floating on a Marsh” (trans. from Chinese by David Young [Five T’ang Poets, 1990])
street music: New York
Acapella Soul
“When We Get Married,” 2009
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“Ooo Baby Baby,” 2012
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“Just My Imagination,” 2011
basement jukebox
The Falcons (feat. Wilson Pickett [vocals], Robert Ward [guitar])
“Take This Love I’ve Got” (1963)
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The Ohio Untouchables (feat. Robert Ward [vocals/guitar])
“I’m Tired” (1962)
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lagniappe
found words
Singer, 43, Snapped In Tiny Bikini
—AOL Headline, 8/31/12
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This active fluidity and tidal composite of duration is the condition of the aesthetic.
—George Steiner, The Poetry of Thought: From Hellenism To Celan (2011)
timeless
Sly and the Family Stone
“Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Again),” TV Show (Soul Train), 1974
*****
“In Time,” Fresh, 1973
Jazz legend Miles Davis was so impressed by the song “In Time” . . . that he made his band listen to the track repeatedly for a full 30 minutes. Composer and music theorist Brian Eno cited Fresh as having heralded a shift in the history of recording, “where the rhythm instruments, particularly the bass drum and bass, suddenly [became] the important instruments in the mix.”
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lagniappe
art beat: more from Tuesday’s stop at the Art Institute of Chicago
Roy Lichtenstein, Landscape in Fog (1996)
favorites
“La-La (Means I Love You)” (T. Bell & W. Hart)
Bill Frisell (guitar) with Tony Scherr (bass) & Kenny Wollesen (drums), live, Rochester (NY), 2007
(Originally posted 5/28/10.)
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The Delfonics, 1968
(Originally posted 2/14/12.)
basement jukebox
The Falcons, “Good Good Feeling” (1967)
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Otis Clay, “That’s How It Is (When You’re In Love)” (1967)
The voice, too, is a rhythm instrument.
Yasiin Bey, AKA Mos Def
Live (studio performance), Paris, 3/5/12*
*“Quiet Dog,” “Niggas In Poorest,” “Sunshine/Screwface,” “Forever Alive”
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