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“I don’t want to like The Mighty Clouds of Joy. I don’t wanna, I don’t wanna, I don’t wanna.” Can you see me kicking my feet, throwing an adult temper tantrum on hardwood floors? Perhaps, I should explain my bias.

I have a love/hate relationship with traditional gospel music, probably due to the unsavory type who I assume primarily listen to it. For me, it conjured up images of preachy, sour-faced, badly-aged church folks: women who wear hats big enough to shade people on either side of them, and men who wear suits and wingtips just to go mow the lawn. So I rejected the music on principle alone. But The Mighty Clouds of Joy’s latest, At The Revival, has proven to be some long overdue therapy for my old school issues

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