Sunday, April 22nd
basement jukebox
O.V. Wright, “I’m Going Home (To Live With God)” (Willie Mitchell, prod.), 1973
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random sights
other day, Oak Park, Ill.
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2018
Saturday, April 21st
spellbinding
Johann Sebastian Bach, from Partita for Violin No. 3 in E major (Gavotte en Rondeau), Gil Shaham (violin), live, Berlin, 2017
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yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
2018
Friday, April 30th
two takes
“Everybody Ought to Treat a Stranger Right” (W. Johnson)
Ry Cooder, live (studio), 4/18/18 (published)
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Blind Willie Johnson (with Willie B. Harris), 4/20/1930 (recorded)
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today, Oak Park, Ill.
2018
Thursday, April 19th
basement jukebox
O.V. Wright, “A Nickel and a Nail” (Willie Mitchell, prod.), 1971
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random sights
other day, Chicago
2018
Wednesday, April 18th
what’s new
Four Tet (aka Kieren Hebden), live, New York, 3/23/18
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random sights
other day, Oak Park, Ill.
2018
Tuesday, April 17th
serendipity
Last night I bumped into these guys via a live webcast from Chicago’s Experimental Sound Studio. As here, their performance had what a friend calls “gather.”
Aram Shelton (alto saxophone), Håkon Berre (drums), live, Copenhagen, 2017
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reading table
cherry blossoms—
to my lowly sleeve
they cling—Kobayashi Issa, 1763-1827 (translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue)
2018
Monday, April 16th
what’s new
Talib Kweli, “All of Us” (feat. Jay Electronica, Yummy Bingham), 4/13/18
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yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
2018
Sunday, April 15th
basement jukebox
Swan Silvertones, “Oh Mary Don’t You Weep,” 1958
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reading table
Some, too fragile for winter winds
The thoughtful grave encloses –—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), 91 (Franklin; excerpt)
2018
Saturday, April 14th
serendipity
Yesterday, while working on an appeal for a client convicted of attempted murder, I bumped into this on the radio (WFMU, Bryce’s show). One-word review: Wow!
Peter Ruzicka (1948-), Metastrofe (1971), Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra (Michael Gielen, cond.)
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art beat: other day, Art Institute of Chicago
Xu Longsen (1956-), from Light of Heaven (through June 24th)
2018
Friday, April 13th
only rock ‘n’ roll
Avantist, “Prison Song,” live, Hickory Hills, Ill., 2016
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