Frank Sudderth, the bespectacled member of the gospel singing group Gospel Echoes, pictured here, was chairman of the deacon board of the Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church in Texana, Cherokee ...

GOSPEL’s hour 2 traces the Golden Age of Gospel from the Lord’s music to the mainstream. Starting in the 1940s, GOSPEL’s hour 2 explores the Golden Age of Gospel — the dramatic explosion of Black ...

When I Reach That Heavenly Shore, compiled by 78 collector Christopher King, collects 42 gospel tracks from a variety of sources. The songs predate the commercial heyday of gospel in the 1940s, ...

One of the most renowned gospel singers was a great-granddaughter of Sitting Bull, the Sioux medicine man. Lillian "White Corn" Little Soldier Klaudt and her children formed the group the Klaudt ...

Marie Knight, a gospel singer who came to fame singing duets with gospel-music star Sister Rosetta Tharpe in the late 1940s and made a noteworthy late-in-life comeback as a solo artist, has died. She ...