What? Have
you and Oates abandoned the genre that brought fame and airplay?
"It's a
definite step away from what we've been doing the last two years." Hall
brushes the blowndry locks from his face. "I still have the gospel feeling.
It's just that my racial memory is howling around the campfire in Scotland,
not Kenya. Soul is soul, black or white. But I don't feel any affinity for
the Brothers Johnson, or Earth, Wind and Fire."
Yeah, but
Daryl, aren't you afraid that—
"No. Most
people stick with the formula. John and I have always been into taking
chances. That's the fun of it."