This fall brings a new collection of some old spirituals and gospel music, first recorded back in the 1970s. The Last Shall Be First: The JCR Records Story, Vol. 1 aims to give a second life to some ...

In the late 1990s a small group would gather at the McDonalds in Dayton, Tn. to sing the old Gospel songs. They brought their instruments and it was hamburgers and hymns. Eddie Hixson, who has been ...

There’s something about listening to great old-school style gospel songs that always seems to revive a tired soul. Over the years, gospel music’s most beloved vocalists have served up songs that have ...

The Christian Tabernacle Concert Choir, which recorded "Hello Sunshine" for Righteous Records under the leadership of the Reverend Maceo Woods Credit: Courtesy Robert Marovich Like “Oh Happy Day,” ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Before Sam Cooke became a household name with hits like You Send Me and A Change Is Gonna Come, he was simply a young man with a velvet voice, raised on gospel, rooted in faith, and ...

The story of the 77-year-old gospel singer, Elizabeth King, is the story of a life of hard work. King, who grew up on a Tennessee plantation, started working at five years old with her father. At nine ...

WILLIAMSTOWN — For Lena Mae Perry, an 84-year-old gospel singer from North Carolina, the link between music and faith is clear: “When the Lord says, ‘move,’ a fire gets under your foot. You just can’t ...