basement jukebox
Edwin Starr, “Twenty-Five Miles,” 1969
Nothing jumps out of speakers like a track mixed for car radio.
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lagniappe
reading table
even poorly planted
rice plants
slowly, slowly . . . green!—Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827; translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue)
mother & daughter
Cissy & Whitney Houston, medley (“(Sweet Sweet Baby) Since You’ve Been Gone,” “Ain’t No Way,” “You Send Me”), live (TV show), 1983
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reading table
He spreads the paper flat and pushes down its dog-eared corners. The paper was once white, and now it is yellow, he thinks. Once flat, now creased. And there is the truth about life: once this, then that.
—Samantha Harvey, The Wilderness
That gospel feeling is in all of this music.
—Solomon Burke
Soul Deep: The Story of Black Popular Music, Episode 2: Sam Cooke, with Mavis Staples, Bobby Womack, Solomon Burke, Ben E. King, et al., BBC, 2005
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lagniappe
art beat: more from Friday at the Art Institute of Chicago
Arshile Gorky (1904-1948), The Plough and the Song, 1946
basement jukebox
Solomon Burke (1940-2010), “Stupidity” (S. Burke), 1963
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lagniappe
art beat
Robert Frank (1924-)
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the beat goes on
Eighteen hundred posts—and counting.
sweet soul music
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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*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.
passings
Bob Abrahamian, soul music DJ (WHPK, Sitting in the Park), historian, archivist, September 25, 1978-June 5, 2014
Dolores Gibson, “I Got A Feeling,” 1960
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Byrdie Green, “Tremblin’,” 1962
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Deanie Parker, “Each Step I Take,” 1964
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These tracks opened his last radio show (5/4/14).
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
sweet soul music
Al Green, live, 1974
sweet soul music
Larry Hargrove, “Gone On Pt. 2,” live, c. 2010
five takes
“Burning Love” (D. Linde)
Arthur Alexander, recording, 1972
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Elvis Presley, live, Greensboro, N.C., 1972
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Elvis Presley, recording, 1972
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Bruce Springstein, live, Italy (Florence), 2012
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The Korean Black Eyes, recording, 1974
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art beat
Weegee (AKA Arthur Fellig, 1899-1968)
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