Sunday, February 19th
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Dixie Hummingbirds (feat. James Walker), “Take Care of Me” (J. Walker), 1990s
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yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
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Tag: Dixie Hummingbirds
2023
Sunday, February 12th
timeless
Dixie Hummingbirds (feat. Ira Tucker [lead vocals], Howard Carroll [guitar]), live: “Jesus Is Coming Soon”
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yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
2022
Sunday, May 15th
sounds of Chicago
Dixie Hummingbirds (feat. James Walker), “The Little Wooden Church,” live (TV show [Jubilee Showcase]), Chicago, 1964
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a while ago, Maine (Monhegan Island)
2021
Sunday, October 10th
timeless
Dixie Hummingbirds, “Get Away, Jordan” (trad.), c. 1949
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other day, Oak Park, Ill.
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reading table
This world—
strung jewels
of dew
on the frail thread
a spider spins—Saigyō (1118-1190), translated from the Japanese by Meredith McKinney
2016
Sunday, October 30th
traveling the gospel highway
“How They Got Over: Ira Tucker” (Robert Clem, dir.)
2014
Sunday, December 14th
old school
Dixie Hummingbirds, We Love You Like a Rock (excerpts), 1995
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You would think that living is a kind of scholarship in time, and that the longer we live the more expert we become at coping with it, in the way that, if you play tennis enough, you get used to coping with faster and faster serves. Instead I find that the longer I live the more bemused I become, and the more impenetrable the subject shows itself to be. I sit on a heap of days.
—Samantha Harvey, Dear Thief (James Wood, “Fly Away,” New Yorker, 12/8/14)
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taking a break
I’m taking some time off—back in a while.
2014
Sunday, February 9th
Silver Quintette, “Sinner’s Crossroads” (1956)
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Bessemer Sunset Four, “I Feel Like My Time Ain’t Long” (1930)
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Dixie Hummingbirds, “Every Knee Surely Must Bow” (1946)
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Famous Davis Sisters, “I Want To Be More Like Jesus” (1957)
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What do these tracks have in common? All were featured the other night on Sinner’s Crossroads, arguably (to these ears, anyway) the best show on radio. It airs Thursday night, from 8 to 9 p.m. (EST), on mighty WFMU-FM. Not only can you hear it live; every show is archived and remains available on-line. To my mind there’s no better gateway to gospel music.
2013
Sunday, May 19th
Dixie Hummingbirds (feat. Ira Tucker, lead vocals), “Maybe It’s You,” TV show (TV Gospel Time), early 1960s
Talk about longevity. Ira Tucker joined the Dixie Hummingbirds in 1938, when he was 13. He was still with them in 2008, when he died.
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