Sit down and hear the singers at the Fort Valley State College Folk Festival, and you will hear a whole bunch of stuff courtesy of the American Memory project. (Save those sound files pals! I did!)

Someone who knows more than I do about our more well-known blues artists, and their gospel pieces, might find some interesting clues as to when certain blues-gospel standards were actually created and how they spread. I'm hearing several things I thought only one guy ever did........

So which came first, the chicken or the egg, and just where did the black gospel quartets get the idea to take spirituals and regularize the harmonies, anyhow? Was it a collision of spirituals and barbershop? It sure sounds like it! ~Susan