The World S Greatest Southern Gospel Songs

(Shawnee Press). This is a collection of some of the finest Southern Gospel songs ever! In this book, you will find the songs you know and love as performed by some of today's best Southern Gospel singers. Carefully assembled to reflect a wide variety of favorites, this book is one you will treasure now and always!

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). This collection includes 54 gospel favorites arranged for piano and 4-part vocal in hymnal style. Features shape notes, and these songs: Bring Me Out of Desert * Broken Rose * Canaanland Is Just in Sight * Empty Vessel * God Bless the U.S.A. * Good Old Boys * He Speaks to Me * I Bowed on My Knees * I'm a Jesus Fan * Jericho * New Grace * Somebody Touched Me * Walking on the Water * more.

(Lillenas Publications). A great all-around collection for those who enjoy southern gospel music. Includes southern gospel classics and more recent favorites, arranged for the medium voice. Piano parts are comfortable yet satisfying, and fun to play, and the melody is always included in the piano part. Perfect for personal enjoyment, vocal solos, or piano performance! Large folio size. Contents: All Because of God's Amazing Grace * All in the Name of Jesus * At the Crossing * Champion of Love * Do You Know My Jesus? * Down on My Knees * God Said It, I Believe It, That Settles It * Goodby, World, Goodby * He Is Here * He Knows Just What I Need * He Looked Beyond My Fault * He Will Pilot Me * Heaven for Me * Heavenly Love * His Grace Is Sufficient for Me * Holy Ground * How Long Has It Been? * I Believe in a Hill Called Mount Calvary * I Bowed on My Knees and Cried, "Holy!" * I Won't Turn Back * I'll Fly Away * I'm Bound for the Kingdom * I'm Climbing Up the Mountain * I'm Feeling Fine * I've Been Changed * If You Believe * Jesus Holds the Keys * Learning to Lean * Led by the Master's Hand * Let Me Touch Him * Love Is Why * Restore My Soul * Stand Still and See His Glory * Sweet Beulah Land * Tears Are a Language * Ten Thousand Angels * The Eastern Gate * The Happy Jubilee * The King and I * The Longer I Serve Him * The Man on the Middle Cross * The Meeting in the Air * The Old Rugged Cross Made the Difference * Then I Met the Master * 'Til the Storm Passes By * We Shall Behold Him * What a Day That Will Be * Where No One Stands Alone * Where the Spirit of the Lord Is * While Ages Roll.

Comprehensive and richly illustrated, Close Harmony traces the development of the music known as southern gospel from its antebellum origins to its twentieth-century emergence as a vibrant musical industry driven by the world of radio, television, recordings, and concert promotions. Marked by smooth, tight harmonies and a lyrical focus on the message of Christian salvation, southern gospel--particularly the white gospel quartet tradition--had its roots in nineteenth-century shape-note singing. The spread of white gospel music is intricately connected to the people who based their livelihoods on it, and Close Harmony is filled with the stories of artists and groups such as Frank Stamps, the Chuck Wagon Gang, the Blackwood Brothers, the Rangers, the Swanee River Boys, the Statesmen, and the Oak Ridge Boys. The book also explores changing relations between black and white artists and shows how, following the civil rights movement, white gospel was influenced by black gospel, bluegrass, rock, metal, and, later, rap. With Christian music sales topping the $600 million mark at the close of the twentieth century, Close Harmony explores the history of an important and influential segment of the thriving gospel industry.

In this ambitious book on southern gospel music, Douglas Harrison reexamines the music's historical emergence and its function as a modern cultural phenomenon. Rather than a single rhetoric focusing on the afterlife as compensation for worldly sacrifice, Harrison presents southern gospel as a network of interconnected messages that evangelical Christians use to make individual sense of both Protestant theological doctrines and their own lived experiences. Harrison explores how listeners and consumers of southern gospel integrate its lyrics and music into their own religious experience, building up individual--and potentially subversive--meanings beneath a surface of evangelical consensus. Reassessing the contributions of such figures as Aldine Kieffer, James D. Vaughan, and Bill and Gloria Gaither, Then Sings My Soul traces an alternative history of southern gospel in the twentieth century, one that emphasizes the music's interaction with broader shifts in American life beyond the narrow confines of southern gospel's borders. His discussion includes the "gay-gospel paradox"--the experience of non-heterosexuals in gospel music--as a cipher for fundamentalism's conflict with the postmodern world.

(Easy Piano Songbook). The name says it all: over 70 of the best P&W songs today. Titles include: Awesome God * Blessed Be Your Name * Come, Now Is the Time to Worship * Days of Elijah * Here I Am to Worship * Open the Eyes of My Heart * Shout to the Lord * We Fall Down * and more.

This is My Story presents 146 of the most beloved gospel singers. Entries are arranged alphabetically by singer, and each consists of a full-page drawing of the person, biographical information including birth date, favorite Bible verse, hometown and musical accomplishments, and an inspirational story or testimony. A great gift book for fans of gospel music, this is a quick reference for people who want to know more about their favorite singers. Most of the biographical information and stories were written by the singers themselves or their close friends and family.

(E-Z Play Today). 50 inspirational favorites in our famous notation: An American Trilogy * The Eastern Gate * Going to Live in Green Pastures * He Set Me Free * I Bowed on My Knees and Cried Holy * I Saw the Light * In the Garden * Just a Closer Walk with Thee * Mansion over the Hilltop * Suppertime * Turn Your Radio On * Will the Circle Be Unbroken * and more.