Most puzzles and riddles are simply good fun, but sometimes they provide important information to those solving the puzzles. In the case of Black gospel music, however, the information sometimes was a matter of life and death.
You don’t have to read far in the biographies of Little Richard, Sam Cooke, Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett, and Otis Redding to discover that they grew up singing in one church or another. In fact, practically every classic-era soul or R&B singer either first lifted his or her voice in sanctified settings, or was directly … THE 10 GREATEST GOSPEL ALBUMS OF ALL TIME Read More » The post THE 10 GREATEST GOSPEL ALBUMS OF ALL TIME appeared first on SPIN.