No way! I was just looking up Mbilia Bel earlier today. Great, great stuff...
pure sweetness and light... a better example of uninhibited and urgent musical celebration of life i can not think of.
this is the kind of thing which cuts through the irony in any crowd like a hot knife in butter, and all the cynicism just evaporates... well of course there will be the hopeless, beyond help cases i suppose.
and there is so much, so much great recordings out there along these lines.