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 ...

This is FRESH AIR. Postwar black gospel music was one of the most important musical genres that shaped soul music through the mid-'70s. But short of crate digging for some LPs and singles, it's been ...

Do you yearn for simpler times and (arguably) better music? The year 1970 produced hits that would set the musical tone for the rest of the decade, and I’m a big fan of the following three nostalgic ...

Though we love the new music and support the next generation of Christian singers at every turn, sometimes, don’t you just miss the old Gospel songs we used to hear, the ones we (over 45) know and ...

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 ...

PETERSBURG -- Merrill Dierker of Petersburg was fiddling with a handwritten list of about 12 gospel songs he was considering singing at Sunday's Cowboy Church service at Atterberry Community Baptist ...

Men's gospel choirs from six Grand Rapids churches will sing in a 6 p.m. concert Saturday at Brown-Hutcherson Ministries. It will be the final performance in a series of concerts the men have sung ...