Sunday, June 10th
voices I miss
Prince (vocals, piano), “Mary, Don’t You Weep” (rec. 1983)
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random sights
other day, Oak Park, Ill.
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2018
Friday, April 27th
voices I miss
Prince, “Nothing Compares 2 U” (P. Nelson), published 4/19/18 (recorded 1984)
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lagniappe
random sights
this morning, Oak Park, Ill.
2018
Sunday, April 8th
two takes
“Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child,” aka “Motherless Child” (trad.)
Bessie Griffin, live, Holland, 1972
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Prince, live
2017
Friday, August 11th
voices I miss
Prince (1958-2016), live, Netherlands (Rotterdam), 2011
2017
Friday, May 5th
Still hard to believe he’s gone.
Prince with Stevie Wonder, live, Los Angeles, 2011
2016
Friday, September 23rd
How strange it seems, still, that he should be dead.
Prince with Mavis Staples, et al., live, England (King’s Cross), 1993
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lagniappe
art beat: yesterday, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Kerry James Marshall (1955-), Slow Dance, 1992-93 (Kerry James Marshall, Mastry, through 9/25/16)
2016
Monday, August 8th
sounds of Chicago
DJ Mike Dunn, live, Chicago (Gramaphone Records), 2015
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lagniappe
musical thoughts
Yeah, everybody’s got a bomb
We could all die any day,
But before I’ll let that happen
I’ll dance my life away.—Prince, “1999”
2016
Friday, May 13th
more Prince
“I Wanna Be Your Lover,” live, Capitol Theatre (Passaic, N.J.), 1982
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reading table
Whatever we’re dealing with catches us
in mid-reconsideration. It’s beautiful,
my lord, just not made to be repeated,
that’s all.***
It was a moment, what can I say.
—John Ashbery (1927-), Breezeway (2015), fragments (“A Breakfast Radish,” “Domani, Dopodomani”)
2016
Wednesday, May 11th
more Prince
With Miles Davis, live, Paisley Park (Chanhassen, Minn.), 12/31/87
2016
Friday, April 22nd
passings
Prince, singer, songwriter, master of all (musical) trades, June 7, 1958-April 21, 2016
Today, remembering him, we revisit a post from last year.
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With all he does, this can get lost: on guitar, he’s a killer.
Cee Lo Green, “Crazy,” live (with Prince, guitar), New York, 2011
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Stevie Wonder, “Superstition,” live (with Prince, guitar), Paris, 2010
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reading table
I am alive—I guess—
—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), #605 (Franklin), first line
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