he said this:

>At the same time, white singers found that
>they were bestowed with instant authenticity and gravitas
>when they backed their songs with a bunch of fat black
>gospel singers in robes (this gimmick eventually filtered
>back to black musicians, as exemplified best by Robert
>Kelly… but we’ll get back to that later)

and not this:

"blak gospel choirs in any/all dynamics are gimmicks".

imsayin', he's referencing neither mahalia nor take 6.


|Fliteweight|