The following is an excerpt of a 20 January 2015 email from Will to Art.
...I've been thinking about the reverse Heart of Darkness concept and the issue of white guys playing black music. It seems like four tropes dominate the field...
The fourth is the white band leader with the all black band. Paul Simon's Graceland album just about fits here, except for Gadd and a few others. Justin Timberlake tends to go this route. Eric Burdon with War comes close. I guess Paul Simon chose to record in Muscle Shoals in the Kodachrome era because he wanted "that black rhythm section." Of course, at least half of those guys were white.
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