Get Ready for Darden and the 'Spirit Wail'

Wittenburg Door Senior Editor Robert Darden is scheduled to be on NPR's Fresh Air with Terri Gross Tuesday, Dec. 18 THURSDAY Dec. 20 (times will vary in individual markets).

We assume she'll ask him about his book People Get Ready! A New History of Black Gospel Music. We assume she won't ask him about his tenure as editor of The World's Pretty Much Only Religious Satire Magazine. But we can still dream.

Bob was super excited when he told us about all this: "We're taping tomorrow morning. I've pulled 10-15 of my favorite 'lost' songs from the Black Gospel Music Restoration Project, including an eerie 20-second "spirit wail" from Little Richard, to play and discuss!"

Darden is a former gospel music editor for Billboard magazine and is currently on the journalism faculty at Baylor University. And he plays the drums. Tune in! Listen to the podcast!

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