Friday, December 6th
sounds of Chicago
Robbie Fulks, “I’ll Trade You Money For Wine,” live, Norway (Oslo), 2013
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Danny Lyon (1942-), Uptown, Chicago (1965)
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Wednesday, November 13th
Here’s a variation, from the 1960s civil rights struggles, on the gospel song we heard Sunday.
SNCC Freedom Singers (AKA The Freedom Singers), “Woke Up This Morning with My Mind on Freedom,” live, Turkey, 2007
We started singing songs at the mass meetings. Songs of the movement gave you energy–a willingness and a wantingness to want to be free. Whenever there was a march to be taken place, there were songs that we would use to motivate the people to get in the line. One such song was “I Woke Up This Morning with My Mind Stayed on Freedom.” Most of the songs from the movement were taken from spirituals, gospel, and rhythm and blues–any type of music. Someone in the audience would start and say, “Come and go with me to that land. Come and go with me to that land.” And the rest would just repeat it.
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And here’s another take on the original.
Mavis Staples, “Woke Up This Morning with My Mind on Jesus,” recording (One True Vine), 2013
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Danny Lyon (1942-), Atlanta (Toddle House), 1963
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Sunday, November 10th
four takes
“Woke Up this Morning with My Mind on Jesus”
Earl Washington (and congregation), live, Newark Church of Christ, Newark, N.J., 2007
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Fred McDowell, live, Como, Miss., 1959
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On the first day of fall, 1959, in Como, Mississippi, a farmer named Fred McDowell emerged from the woods and ambled over to his neighbor Lonnie Young’s front porch with a guitar in hand. Alan Lomax was there recording the Young fife and drum ensemble, as well as the raggy old country dance music of their neighbors, the Pratcher brothers, and he had no idea what to expect from this slight man in overalls. He certainly didn’t expect that Fred would soon become internationally known as one of the most original, talented, and affecting country bluesmen ever recorded.
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Blind Roosevelt Graves and Brother, recording, 1936
(This illustration isn’t BRG—it’s Charley Patton.)
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Richard Coffey Jr. (and congregation), live, Sweetwater Church of Christ, Jacksonville, Fla., 2012
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Danny Lyon (1942-), Albany, Ga. (Mt. Zion Baptist Church), 1962
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Wednesday, November 6th
love it or hate it
Terrie Ex (guitar), Paal Nilssen-Love (drums), live, Paris, 2012
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Danny Lyon (1942-), Chicago (Uptown), 1965
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Saturday, November 2nd
only rock ’n’ roll
MC5, “Kick Out The Jams,” “Ramblin’ Rose,” “Motor City’s Burning,” “Tonight,” “Black To Comm #2,” live (TV studio), Germany (Bremen), 1972
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Danny Lyon (1942-), Chicago, 1960s
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Friday, November 1st
only rock ’n’ roll
Richard Hell and the Voidoids (with Robert Quine [1942-2004], guitar, et al.), “Blank Generation,” live, New York (CBGB’s), Blank Generation, 1980
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Danny Lyon (1942-), Chicago, 1965
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