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From:
wells
To:
Kent williams
Cc:
iduhntuhbelluhbiguhbent duhbance muhbusuhbic
Date:
Wed, 10 Nov 1999 16:21:43 -0500 (EST)
Subject:
Re: (idm) GENRE BASHING
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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. " --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org