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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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2018

Sunday, May 20th

six takes

“Nobody’s Fault but Mine” (aka “It’s Nobody’s Fault but Mine”)

Ry Cooder, 2018

 

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Pops Staples, 2015 (recorded 1998)

 

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Willie Nelson, 2010

 

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Nina Simone, 1969

 

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Sister Rosetta Tharpe, 1949

 

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Blind Willie Johnson, 1927

 

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lagniappe

random sights

last night, Oak Park, Ill.

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2012

Monday, 4/30/12

Happy (79th) Birthday, Willie!

Willie Nelson, “She’s Not For You,” “Darkness On the Face of the Earth,” “Hello Walls,” TV show (The Porter Wagoner Show), 1965

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lagniappe

Today, at 8 a.m. (EST), WKCR-FM (broadcasting from Columbia University) kicks off their Annual Country Music Festival. This year’s fest, which runs until midnight Wednesday, focuses on “the Outlaw and Progressive country movements of the 1970s”: “new and archival interviews from Ray Wylie Hubbard, Billy Joe Shaver, Willie Nelson, and Waylon Jennings”; “[s]pecial segments . . . detail[ing] the fertile creative scene in Lubbock, Texas”; “the endurance of the outlaw theme in country music”; “progressive country’s Californian comrades,” etc. (To college students this stuff ain’t just old—it’s history.)

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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

Monday, 11/8/10

What makes this guy such a great guitarist?

He doesn’t show off.

“Lead”? “Rhythm”? To him it’s all one.

He doesn’t play over the drummer—he plays with him.

Keith Richards (with Willie Nelson, Ryan Adams, Hank Williams III), “Dead Flowers,” live (TV broadcast), 2002

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lagniappe

I’m not here just to make records and money. I’m here to say something and to touch other people, sometimes in a cry of desperation: ‘Do you know this feeling?’

—Keith Richards, Life (2010)

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reading table

As the fiftieth birthday approaches, you get the sense that your life is thinning out, and will continue to thin out, until it thins out into nothing . . . . Then fifty comes and goes, and fifty-one, and fifty-two. And life thickens out again. Because there is now an enormous and unsuspected presence within your being like an undiscovered continent. This is the past.

—Martin Amis, The Pregnant Widow (2010)

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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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