Songs that kindled memories of growing up in churches during the 1940s and 1950s are fading into silence. And the four-part harmony that many of them required could go with them into history, ...
“There is music in my soul today, for when the Lord is near, the dove of peace sings in my heart, the flow’rs of grace appear. …” –From the gospel song “Sunshine in My Soul,” written in 1887 by Eliza ...
FROM the soil of the monastic life, which might seem, for many reasons, to have been unfavorable to such a development, there sprang and bloomed some of the rarest flowers of Christian poetry. There ...
It's one of the most distinctive sounds in country and bluegrass music. You can hear it in the singing of Patty Loveless, Keith Whitley and Ricky Skaggs. The way these Appalachian-born singers bend ...
David W. Stowe does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...
The 12-string guitarist Sarah Louise and fiddler Sally Anne Morgan (Black Twig Pickers, Pelt) understand that folk music is a music that moves forward, as old hymns and songs passed down are just as ...
The Big School Assembly Singalong is tapping into nostalgia for school assemblies to uncover the all-time favourite primary school banger I think that these hymns and this collective singing takes you ...