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Monday, September 28, 2026

Pressing On

Wednesday, September 23, 2026

Coltrane

Saturday, September 19, 2026

Haleh Liza Gafori

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Insider

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Dirge

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Voices In The Wall

Saturday, August 29, 2026

Purple Rain

Monday, August 24, 2026

The Prince

Saturday, August 22, 2026

Mr. Hooker

Thursday, August 20, 2026

Basement Tapes

Monday, August 17, 2026

Yuja Wang

Sunday, August 16, 2026

Prince: Crimson & Clover

Friday, August 14, 2026

I Shot the Sheriff

Tuesday, August 4, 2026

Chase Those Crazy Baldheads Out of the Town

Monday, August 3, 2026

Kinga Glyk

Saturday, August 1, 2026

Barafshan

Thursday, July 30, 2026

The Swell Season

Falling Slowly

Wednesday, July 29, 2026

Simple Man

Tuesday, July 28, 2026

Two for One

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*Disclaimer

I have taken the term "God's Unruly Friends" from the title of Ahmet T. Karamustafa's eponymous book (subtitled: Dervish Groups in the Islamic Middle Period 1200-1550), Oxford: Oneworld, 2006. Professor Karamustafa, a man of formidable scholarship and consummate taste, has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with this blog. His book has a rather oblique and complicated relevance to my blog insofar as it has helped me to get in touch with my own inner Dervish--but that is neither the fault of the book nor its author.