Sunday, January 5th
timeless
Soul Stirrers (featuring Sam Cooke [1931-1964]), “Jesus, Wash Away My Troubles” (S. Cooke), 1956
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random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
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Tag: Soul Stirrers
2019
Sunday, February 10th
timeless
Soul Stirrers (feat. Sam Cooke, Paul Foster), live, Los Angeles, 1955
“I Have a Friend Above All Others,” “Be With Me Jesus”
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“Nearer My God to Thee”
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random sights
this morning, Oak Park, Ill.
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reading table
I am alive – I guess –
—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), from 605 (Franklin)
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(Taking a break—back in a while.)
2018
Sunday, November 11th
timeless
Five Soul Stirrers (feat. R. H. Harris), “Walk Around” (R. H. Harris), 1939
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art beat
Helen Levitt (1913-2009, MCOTD Hall of Fame), New York, c. 1940
2018
Sunday, July 1st
timeless
Soul Stirrers (feat. Sam Cooke), “Nearer to Thee,” live, Los Angeles, 1955
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lagniappe
random sights
this morning, Chicago (Columbus Park)
2018
Sunday, March 4th
two takes
“His Eye Is on the Sparrow” (C.D. Martin, C.H. Gabriel), 1905
Soul Stirrers (feat. R.H. Harris), 1946
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Gladys Knight, live, Washington, D.C., 2017
2017
Sunday, March 19th
old school
Soul Stirrers (feat. R.H. Harris), “Canaan Land,” 1947
Ever tire of the 21st century?
Me, too.
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art beat: other day, Art Institute of Chicago
Paul Cezanne (1839-1906), The Bathers, 1899/1904
2016
Sunday, July 17th
sounds of Chicago
Soul Stirrers (feat. Willie Rogers), “A Change Is Gonna Come” (S. Cooke)
Live, 1989
2015
Sunday, June 28th
old school
I could live five hundred years and never tire of hearing this voice.
Soul Stirrers (feat. R. H. Harris [1916-2000], lead vocals), “Lord, I’ve Tried” (T. A. Dorsey), 1946
Photograph by Robert Frank (1924-).
2015
Sunday, February 1st
old school
Soul Stirrers, “He’s Been a Shelter to Me” (Paul Foster, lead vocal), “I’m a Soldier” (Jimmy Outler, lead vocal), live (TV show), early 1960s
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reading table
When you’re playing baseball, on that field, it’s like your whole life, it’s your world and you don’t want to leave it. It was such a joy to be there, to be able to make decisions on your own: when to swing, when not to swing; when to run, when not to run. I felt this is the only place in the world where I could make my own decisions.
—Ernie Banks (1931-2015)
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