Producer King Britt had been staring at a blank computer screen for weeks before turning to his mother for advice. He had writer's block. His mother advised him to turn to God, that helps. "Great, I thought about that," Britt must have thought, until a few days later he was called by a representative from Ropeadope Records and asked if he had ever heard of Sister Gertrude Morgan. This strict believer,
… born in 1900, was not only a painter and singer, but also, according to her own words, the bride of Christ. In 1970 she made her only record Let's Make A Record on which she accompanied herself with a tambourine. Of course Ropeadope Records was very eager to sell this record again, so this label turned to the versatile talents of King Britt to make the music a little more appealing to a young audience. He provided Morgan's vocals with raw yet heavenly music, so that her spirit lives on in the next century in an appropriate way for her. (AD)more