The Canton Spirituals

I had another set of songs ready to go to close out the week of posts but I began the week in Urbana/Campaign and while out there, managed to hit up a pair of stores, including one that had two boxes of sealed gospel LPs, including the Canton Spirituals LP which – by lucky coincidence – I needed a cleaner copy of anyway. 1 The group, like the Soul Stirrers go back, way back, to the 1940s though, presumably by this iteration in the mid 1980s, they had changed up their line-up at least a little bit (that said, Henry Watkins Sr., one of the original founders, is still singing vocals on here). Read More

Celebrate Black History Month at the 27th Annual Salute to Gospel Music Program on Saturday, Feb. 26 at 7 p.m. at the Genesee Theatre in Waukegan. Read More