Is it fair to say this book is a cross between a biography and an annotated discography?

The two can't exist without the other to really get an understanding of how the yin and the yang work, how all the seasons work to actually make a year.

So I think it's important to look at the music and dissect the music.

I think it's... important to look at the historicity, and I think it's important to bring all the testimonies in, because what it does, it kind of brings this three-pronged approach to someone's life, looking at the orthopathy, orthoproxy, orthodoxy, and how all of those things linger together.

You know, it's almost as if you look at the life of Jesus, and if you're only going to read the Gospel of Mark, you're not going to get a pretty good perspective of, I think, what the contributors of the Canon really wanted you to get out of that.

So Bob and I, we were very deliberate in doing these streams together, the testimonies, the looking at the music.

Andre worked in community and James Cone in his book, The Spiritual Blues, he talks about how Black music is community music.

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