Hi, Dale. Thanks for saying "His gospel songs retained that blues tinge that tended to set them apart from the white gospel music."

"Blues tinge" conveys the feeling of the song well. I had thought of my collection as being "soft blues," which is another way of saying the same thing. If people could hear me play a number of songs on the dulcimer and hear the difference between (for example)"Praise to the Lord" and "Peace in the Valley," they would know what I mean.

(Both songs are played with the same tuning.)

There are degrees of blueness.