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In praise of - gospel music.

Not the sort of gospel music that made John Belushi cartwheel down the aisle in The Blues Brothers, though.

Banish from your mind all thought of Aretha Franklin or Mahalia Jackson or the great Golden Gate Quartet, whose Stalin Wasn't Stallin' (A Modern Spiritual) was an unlikely hit in 1943 back when the Americans were still on speaking terms with nasty old Uncle Joe.

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