On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Kent williams wrote:
quoted 11 lines Counterexamples: Gospel Recordings by Aretha Franklin. Early Carter Family> Counterexamples: Gospel Recordings by Aretha Franklin. Early Carter Family
> records. Recordings by the itinerant black gospel quartets that toured the
> southern US during the first half of this century. White gospel is, I
> will say, universally dreadful. It's worth buying a few at thrift stores
> just so you can fully know how bad music can be and still get people to buy
> it.
>
> There is a 2 record set of Aretha Franklin performing at her father's
> church in Detroit that is phenomenal, and includes as a bonus a Jesse
> Jackson Sermon that I've heard sampled on house tracks.
>
Well god, let me run right out and buy it.
Not. Gospel is awful. All of it. Every last rare basement-recorded
out-of-print Aretha Franklin LP. White gospel's bad, black gospel's bad,
evey race in between whoever sought to create gospel- well, it's bad too.
But I digress.
- wells oliver / s0ewoliv@titan.vcu.edu
" The ball is round. The game lasts ninety minutes.
This much is fact. Everything else is just theory. "
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