He attended Methodist and Baptist churches where music wasn’t known ... A now-bygone Houston gospel quartet, the Echoes of Zion, was singing in an old storefront-turned-church in his Fifth ...

I went to the Old “Primitive” Baptist, where they all get up together and sing the same part. No music, or nothing. Everybody sung lead; that’s the way it was in the old Baptist sound.

In a groundbreaking development for St. Louis’s cultural landscape, the historic Second Baptist Church is embarking on an ambitious journey to become the city’s first Gospel Music Hall of Fame ...