You got this basic message going on, the story, they're telling a story. It's like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder how I keep from going under. It reflects what we have going on in the spirituals. And it is the grandchild, I'd say, of a musical form that comes way back from the Negro folk tradition. And it actually evolves as popular music evolves.
Gospel has drums, and organs playing, and bass guitars, and it's very rhythmic.
Quite often you have a very large choir. And there's very, very exciting music. But the spirituals come from a different time. They actually come much earlier than gospel music does. The spirituals originated during the time of slavery.