music clip of the day

Elvis—blues singer

Elvis Presley, “Stranger In My Own Home Town,” live (rehearsal), 1970

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lagniappe

Percy Mayfield, “Stranger In My Own Home Town” (1964)

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art beat

Stranger in Paradise: The Works of Reverend Howard Finster, Chicago Cultural Center, through 9/26/10 (in the gallery next to The Jazz Loft Project, W. Eugene Smith in NYC, 1957-1965, there through 9/19/10)

Mr. Coke (1988; tractor enamel on wood)

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My work is scrubby. It’s bad, nasty art. But it’s telling something. You don’t have to be a perfect artist to work in art.

—Reverend Howard Finster

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Matthew Arient’s Angel (1987; tractor enamel on wood)

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Howard Finster Vision House