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Tag: George Saunders

Friday, April 7th

This, I just found, has more than 21 million views. (Where have I been?)

Florence and the Machine, “Cosmic Love”
Live (studio performance), Seattle, 2010


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I had been happy, happy enough, but now I often found myself uttering a spontaneous prayer that went, simply: She is here, still here.

—George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo

Friday, March 11th

only rock ‘n’ roll

Big Star (with Alex Chilton), “In the Street,” live (TV show), 1994


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Replacements, “Alex Chilton,” live (TV show), 2014


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musical thoughts

[M]y favorite songs . . . make[] me feel more able to go out and live.

—George Saunders, New York Times Magazine, 3/10/16 (on-line)

Sunday, February 17th

Voices, hands.

Guitar, bass, drums.

And soul.

Sensational Friendly Brothers, Canton, Mississippi (St. James Missionary Baptist Church), 1978

“Where Shall I Be (When the First Trumpet Sounds)”



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“Heaven Is My Goal”


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mail

Thanks, Richard—great clips too.

—George Saunders, featured here the other day

Wednesday, February 13th

a week in New Orleans: day three

Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five
“West End Blues” (Joe “King” Oliver), 1928


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King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band
“Dipper Mouth Blues” (Joe “King” Oliver), 1923


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America, to me, should be shouting all the time, a bunch of shouting voices, most of them wrong, some of them nuts, but please, not just one droning glamorous reasonable voice.

—George Saunders, “My Flamboyant Grandson” (In Persuasion Nation)