Sunday, September 7th
testify!
Shirley Caesar (1938-), “It’s Alright, It’s Ok,” live, published 9/3/25
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other day, Chicago (Columbus Park)
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2023
Sunday, November 12th
basement jukebox
Shirley Caesar (1938-) and The Caesar Singers (with The Thompson Community Singers), “Put Your Hand in the Hand” (Grammy Award, Best Soul Gospel Performance), 1971
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another take
Live (TV show: Jubilee Showcase), Chicago, 1972
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yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
2023
Sunday, September 17th
timeless
TV Gospel Time (c. 1962): Caravans (feat. Albertina Walker, Shirley Caesar, et al.), Paul Foster (Soul Stirrers), et al.
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other day, Oak Park, Ill.
2023
Sunday, July 23rd
sounds of Chicago
Caravans (feat. Shirley Caesar, 1938-), “My All to the Lord,” 1960
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other day, Chicago
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There are things
We live among ‘and to see them
Is to know ourselves’.
—George Oppen (1908-1984), from “Of Being Numerous”
2023
Sunday, March 26th
sounds of Chicago
Shirley Caesar (1938-), “God Is Not Dead” (S. Caesar), live (TV show [Jubilee Showcase]), Chicago, 1972
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other day, outside Chicago (Chicago Botanic Garden)
2022
Sunday, February 27th
like nobody else
Shirley Caesar (1938-), live (“It’s Alright, It’s Ok,” “I Remember Mama,” “Armor of God,” “Take Your Knee off My Neck”), published 2/25/22
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yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
2018
Sunday, September 2nd
Shirley testifies
Shirley Caesar (with Tasha Cobbs), “How I Got Over,” Aretha’s homegoing service, Detroit, 8/31/18
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this morning, Oak Brook, Ill. (Dean Nature Sanctuary)
2017
Sunday, October 15th
three takes
“I Won’t Be Back” (AKA “Sweepin’ Through the City”)
Caravans (feat. Shirley Caesar, 1938-)
Live, Boston (Boston University), 1960s
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Recording, 1962
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Shirley Caesar
Live, Tulsa, Okla., 2001
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They end their flight
one by one—
crows at dusk.—Yosa Buson, 1716-1784 (translated from Japanese by Robert Hass)
2016
Sunday, June 5th
yesterday in Chicago
I heard these folks in Millennium Park, at the thirty-first annual Gospel Fest. Rain had been falling, but it stopped. Slowly, dark skies gave way to sunshine.
Brian Courtney Wilson, “Just Love,” live, Windsor Village United Methodist Church, Houston, Tx.
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William Murphy, “It’s Working,” live, Newbirth Missionary Baptist Church, Lithonia, Ga.
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Shirley Caesar, “No Charge,” live
2016
Sunday, April 10th
sounds of Chicago
Caravans, live (TV show), Chicago, 1963
In front, on the right, is the young Shirley Caesar.
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