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2023

Thursday, July 27th

passings

Sinead O’Connor, singer, December 8, 1966–July 26, 2023

Today, remembering her, we revisit three posts.

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January 3, 2010

What other pop star has made such stunning contributions as a guest artist?

With Willie Nelson, “Don’t Give Up” (1993)

https://youtube.com/watch?v=DPE2rQunzL0%3Fversion%3D3%26rel%3D1%26showsearch%3D0%26showinfo%3D1%26iv_load_policy%3D1%26fs%3D1%26hl%3Den%26autohide%3D2%26wmode%3Dtransparent

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With the Chieftains, “The Foggy Dew” (1995)

https://youtube.com/watch?v=13MQFCfCYdQ%3Fversion%3D3%26rel%3D1%26showsearch%3D0%26showinfo%3D1%26iv_load_policy%3D1%26fs%3D1%26hl%3Den%26autohide%3D2%26wmode%3Dtransparent

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With Shane MacGowan, “Haunted” (1995)

https://youtube.com/watch?v=C8oyxrrEk58%3Fversion%3D3%26rel%3D1%26showsearch%3D0%26showinfo%3D1%26iv_load_policy%3D1%26fs%3D1%26hl%3Den%26autohide%3D2%26wmode%3Dtransparent

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January 4, 2012

Forget the weird press—she can sing.

“Paddy’s Lament” (trad.), TV broadcast (Ireland), 12/19/11

https://youtube.com/watch?v=fntW2pthndo%3Fversion%3D3%26rel%3D1%26showsearch%3D0%26showinfo%3D1%26iv_load_policy%3D1%26fs%3D1%26hl%3Den%26autohide%3D2%26wmode%3Dtransparent

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April 24, 2016

two takes

“Trouble Will Soon Be Over”

Blind Willie Johnson, 1930

https://youtube.com/watch?v=EowFP7XCa4Q%3Fversion%3D3%26rel%3D0%26showsearch%3D0%26showinfo%3D1%26iv_load_policy%3D1%26fs%3D1%26hl%3Den%26autohide%3D2%26wmode%3Dtransparent%2A%2A%2A

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God Don’t Never Change: The Songs of Blind Willie Johnson (2016)

https://youtube.com/watch?v=d0VcZ8bAut4%3Fversion%3D3%26rel%3D0%26showsearch%3D0%26showinfo%3D1%26iv_load_policy%3D1%26fs%3D1%26hl%3Den%26autohide%3D2%26wmode%3Dtransparent

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2014

Monday, May 19th

Some people behave strangely in their own living rooms. Others do it on national TV.

Van Morrison, Sinead O’Connor, The Chieftains, “Have I Told You Lately,” live (Late Show with David Letterman), 1997


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lagniappe

art beat

Garry Winogrand (1928-1984), New York, 1969

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2012

Wednesday, 1/4/12

Forget the weird press—she can sing.

Sinead O’Connor, “Paddy’s Lament” (trad.)
TV broadcast (Ireland), 12/19/11

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How many other pop stars have made so many stunning contributions as a guest artist?

With Shane MacGowan, “Haunted”

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With the Chieftains, “The Foggy Dew”

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With Willie Nelson, “Don’t Give Up”

(Last three clips originally posted 3/3/10.)

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2010

Thursday, 7/1/10

looking back

Today, celebrating our 300th post, we revisit a few favorites.

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3/12/10

Both Chicago blues artists. Both guitar players. Both influenced by other kinds of music.

Musical personalities? They could hardly be more different.

Buddy Guy, “Let Me Love You Baby,” live

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Fenton Robinson, “Somebody Loan Me A Dime,” live, 1977

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Back in the 1970s, when I was at Alligator Records, I had the pleasure of working with Fenton, co-producing his album I Hear Some Blues Downstairs (a Grammy nominee). He didn’t fit the stereotype of a bluesman. Gentle, soft-spoken, serious, introspective: he was all these things. He died in 1997.

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3/3/10

What other pop star has made such stunning contributions as a guest artist?

Sinead O’Connor

With Willie Nelson, “Don’t Give Up”

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With the Chieftains, “The Foggy Dew”

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With Shane MacGowan, “Haunted”

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5/28/2010

two takes

“La-La Means I Love You”

The Delfonics, live, 2008 (originally recorded 1968)

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Bill Frisell, live, New York (Rochester), 2007

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lagniappe

musical thoughts

Music . . . carr[ies] us smoothly across the tumult of experience, like water over rocks.

—Vijay Iyer, liner notes, Historicity (2009)

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2010

Wednesday, 3/3/10

What other pop star has made such stunning contributions as a guest artist?

Sinead O’Connor

With Willie Nelson, “Don’t Give Up”

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With the Chieftains, “The Foggy Dew”

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With Shane MacGowan, “Haunted”

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