they also rerun it at 10 the next morning. Rev Al was on Wed nite. He didn't sing; he just did the couch thang with Jon Stewart. But I remembers eeing him at Albert Hall in London in '83 or '84, part of a Gospeel show -- no secular hits at all. But he's gone back to doing the old songs.
He's been doing a limited schedule of secular dates for awhile now--I saw him at Jazzfest in N'awlins about 94 or so, and was truly moved by both aspects (the religious and the secular) of his performance. My God, what a catalog that man has. And he moved the crowd like no one else I saw that entire week. I was sober as a judge, but I was high as a kite, too.
We saw him on the street in the Quarter a day or two later, getting out of a limo with several, ummm, very attractive young women. So I think he was on the way to reconciling that aspect of his character even back then.
And now that he's recording regularly (in the secular vein that is) I assume he's ramped up his concert schedule. Haven't heard his newest one that's just out, but I really dug the one that came out in late '03.
