One of my prized possessions as a song historian is a 1977 recorded interview with Thomas A. Dorsey. I learned that in 1899, Dorsey was born into the home of a black minister in Villa Rica, Georgia, a ...
No city has played a larger role in the emergence and nurturance of gospel music than Chicago, so listeners here – and beyond – have ample reason to applaud the release of “The Gospel According to ...