Come With Me: A Tour of Labelle's 'Chameleon' Album (1976)

by Tom Blunt

Perfect albums are just as boring as perfect people. All the standards used to assess “perfection” in music, even retrospectively, are still so rife with bias related to gender, race, class, the whole ugly mess. Undoing that often requires us to consider uncomfortable truths about the music we love, music that everyone seems to love. Such as: perhaps it…