Walk into most black churches Sunday morning and you're more likely to hear the choir sing from the gospel top 40 list than sing old-time "Negro spirituals" or hymns from traditional hymnbooks.

Three Old Time Gospel Sings are planned this summer at Englewood Christian Church. The events will be at 5 p.m. June 16, July 21 and Aug. 18. Featured will be old-time gospel hymns, solos, duets, ...

The Negro spirituals : plantation songs and jubilee songs, 1600-1870 -- The gospel songs : gospel hymns, historical gospel, and traditional songs, songs of Tindley, Dorsey, Campbell, and others, ...

A few years ago, a group of us who love old time gospel music got together and created a community-wide gospel concert. The event was originally called Gospel Fest and the first concert of this type ...

In the late 1990s a small group would gather at the McDonalds in Dayton, Tn. to sing the old Gospel songs. They brought their instruments and it was hamburgers and hymns. Eddie Hixson, who has been ...

Religion-and-alcohol groups are popping up across the United States In Nashville%2C a group meets once quarterly and sing hymns in a bar Beer and Hymn Sing is attracting a growing number of people of ...

I have always drawn strength from old Southern gospel hymns. I was reared in the stone house that once belonged to my grandparents, and it stood beside that little country chapel my mama so loved. If ...

For many worshippers, only a pipe organ makes church feel like church. That is apparently the sentiment of the leadership and a significant percentage of the congregation of Valley Baptist Church, so ...

At 28 years old, musician Matthew Smith is not following the latest trends in popular music. Instead, his style of music is from the old school - the really old school. At first listen, Smith's music ...

KINGSPORT — The cool autumn wind is picking up, and you can almost hear the soft whisper of the old-time gospel hymns that used to fill the valleys and reach to the tops of the mountains. And, this ...