two takes
“Getting Late in the Evening”
Ernestine Oliver with Alberta Gibson, Cleo Johnson and Hattie May Howell, live, Piney Woods, Miss., 1939
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Original Gospel Harmonettes (featuring Dorothy Love Coates, 1928-2002, MCOTD Hall of Fame), live, Los Angeles, 1955
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lagniappe
reading table
This road—
no one goes down it,
autumn evening.—Matsuo Basho, 1644-1694 (translated from Japanese by Robert Hass)
MCOTD Hall of Fame
Nobody sounds like her—nobody.
Dorothy Love Coates (1928-2002) & the Original Gospel Harmonettes, “99 and a Half Won’t Do” (D.L. Coates), 1956
MCOTD Hall of Fame
Dorothy Love Coates (1928-2002)
“Won’t Let Go” (AKA “I’m Just Holding On”)
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“The Winner”
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“The Accident” (Gospel Harmonette Odessa Edwards, speaking), “Get Away Jordan,” “Getting Late in the Evening,” “You Must Be Born Again,” 1955
MCOTD Hall of Fame
Today drummer Hamid Drake (1955-) enters the MCOTD Hall of Fame, joining saxophonists Von Freeman and Henry Threadgill; trumpeter Lester Bowie; gospel singer Dorothy Love Coates; composer Morton Feldman; poets John Berryman, William Bronk, and Wislawa Szymborska; and photographer Helen Levitt. Whatever the situation, he adds oxygen.
DKV Trio (HD, drums; Kent Kessler, bass; Ken Vandermark, baritone saxophone), live, Chicago, 2010
MCOTD Hall of Fame
Dorothy Love Coates (1928-2002), “How Much More”
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Ashland Ave. at 19th St., Chicago
two takes
“Strange Man” (D. L. Coates)
Steve Dawson (lead vocals, guitar), Diane Christensen (vocals), Robbie Fulks (vocals, guitar), live, Chicago, 2013
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Dorothy Love Coates (1928-2002; MCOTD Hall-of-Famer), recording, 1968
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random thoughts
Do the Canada geese, seeing me ride by on my bicycle, feel like they’re communing with nature?
two takes
“Strange Man” (D. L. Coates)
Patty Griffin, live, London, 2013
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Dorothy Love Coates (1928-2002; MCOTD Hall of Famer), recording, 1968
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lagniappe
art beat
Helen Levitt (1913-2009), New York, c. 1940
never enough
Dorothy Love Coates (1928-2002), MCOTD Hall of Famer, talking and singing (“He’s Calling Me” [D. Love], The Original Gospel Harmonettes, 1955)
Once I start listening to this I don’t want to stop, ever.
The Original Gospel Harmonettes (featuring MCOTD Hall of Famer Dorothy Love Coates), “He’s Calling Me,” 1955
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lagniappe
art beat: Tuesday at the Chicago Cultural Center
Hale Woodruff (1900-1980), Old Farmhouse in Beauce Valley, 1928 (featured, through June 16th, in Rising Up: Hale Woodruff’s Murals at Talladega College)
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random thoughts
It seems to be difficult, if not impossible, for me to grasp the apparent fact that the distance between, say, 2010 and 1960, when I was eight years old, is just as great as that between 1960 and 1910.
Today we welcome her to the ultra-exclusive MCOTD Hall of Fame, where she joins previous inductees Von Freeman, Wislawa Szymborska, William Bronk, and Lester Bowie.
Dorothy Love Coates, January 30, 1928-April 9, 2002
“The Accident” (Odessa Edwards, speaking), “Get Away Jordan,” “Getting Late in the Evening,” “You Must Be Born Again,” live, Los Angeles, 1955
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“You Must Be Born Again,” “He’s Right On Time” TV show (TV Gospel Time), early 1960s
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“Won’t Let Go” (AKA “I’m Just Holding On”)
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“Strange Man”
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lagniappe
reading table: two takes
The old pond— a frog jumps in, sound of water.
—Matsuo Basho (1644-1694, translated from Japanese by Robert Hass)
New pond. No sound of a frog jumping in.
—Ryokan (1758-1831, translated from Japanese by Kazuaki Tanahashi)
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