At 12:32 PM 3/2/99 -0500, Jon wrote:
>True enough about the individual entries, but I'll argue back a little bit
>on the southern gospel thing; though there's no entry as such, there's some
>discussion in the entry under gospel music (written by Charles Wolfe).
yeah I knew that. And it's better than nothing. But... Hey, I'm a southern
gospel nut.
I have heard that Wolfe, between bouts of illness, has been working on a
history of southern gospel. That would great and much needed--Don Cusic's
history, The Sound of Light, is the best I know of currently, but it's only
half southern gospel. The other is black gospel, which is great but Anthony
(?) Heilbut's The Gospel Sound pretty definitively covered that side of the
tradition already. We need a southern gospel book, before the tradition's
gone for good... --david cantwell
