The show's additional legacy — probably its main one to most of the Southern and rural viewers in particular — was the hundreds of performances of country music, bluegrass, gospel music, and other traditional styles, that were featured on it during its run.

Southern gospel quartet Gold City,

Southern gospel group The Inspirations,

Among the nation's first bands that played Christian rock was The Crusaders, a Southern Californian garage rock band, whose November 1966 Tower Records album Make a Joyful Noise with Drums and Guitars is considered one of the first gospel rock releases, or even " the first record of Christian rock ", and Mind Garage, " arguably the first band of its kind ", whose 1967 Electric Liturgy was recorded in 1969 at RCA's " Nashville Sound " studio.

On the fourth Sunday of each May, The Big Singing, an all-day sing-along program of Southern Harmony shape note gospel music is held at the county courthouse.

Highlights include the Lincoln Look-A-Like contests, rail-splitting competitions, a parade at noon on Saturday, shopping booths and concerts by local talent ( mostly country, bluegrass and Southern gospel ).

And the biggest gospel artist Gaither from the Southern gospel end of Christian show biz ( who shall remain nameless ) took " The Tune ", kept the tempo and the flavor and re-titled it " God Gave The Song.

He grew up hearing Southern gospel music sung by whites in church, and by black field workers when he started working in the cotton fields at age six.

CCM now was a combination of traditional gospel music, Southern gospel music, Jesus music artists, and in some cases a style of big-band music with Christian lyrics.

Many stations play primarily gospel music ( whether Black Gospel or Southern Gospel ) or worship music, while others play all formats of contemporary Christian music including rock and roll, pop, rap, country, and alternative.

On December 6, 1961 Burke recorded one of his best known songs, " Cry to Me ", " an ode to loneliness and desire " " one of the first songs to unify country, gospel and R & B in one package ", that is considered " the paradigm for Southern soul ballads.

" " Reworked as a celebration of black consciousness, his potent mix of gospel and country – the kind that defined his earlier sides for Atlantic – and driven by a Southern funk-like strut, .... it returned Burke to the US R & B Top 20 ", with the single reaching # 15 on the R & B charts and # 45 on the pop charts.

Wexler wanted the Southern roots and gospel style of their live performances, so the pair were loaned to Stax to record, although they remained Atlantic Records artists.

Subgenres include contemporary gospel, urban contemporary gospel ( sometimes referred to as " black gospel "), Southern gospel, and modern gospel music ( now more commonly known as praise and worship music or contemporary Christian music ).

Southern gospel, is sometimes called " quartet music " by fans due to the original all male, tenor-lead-baritone-bass quartet make-up.

Flavors in Southern gospel range from ultra-traditional early quartet music ( i. e. the Statesmen Quartet, circa 1940 – 50 ) to very cutting edge sounds ( i. e. current Signature Sound quartet discography ).

Progressive Southern gospel is an American music genre that has grown out of Southern gospel over the past couple of decades.

The economy of Lesotho is based on agriculture, livestock, manufacturing, mining, and depends heavily on inflows of workers ’ remittances and receipts from the Southern African Customs Union ( SACU ).

The officials from Environment, Transport and Works Bureau said that consideration of funding depends on the development of tourism in Southern District, especially after the submission of Ocean Park redevelopment project.

Also, among the latter a large percentage soon acquire the prevalent Southern attitude on most social problems.

But though the Southern States, when drafting a constitution to unite themselves, narrowed the difference to this fine point by omitting to assert the right to secede, the fact remained that by seceding from the Union they had already acted on the concept that it was composed primarily of sovereign states.

A useful comment on his relation to his region may be made, I think, by noting briefly how in handling Southern materials and Southern problems he has deviated from the pattern set by other Southern authors while remaining faithful to the essential character of the region.

Attorney Shearn had worked on this for two years and had succeeded in getting a report supporting his stand from the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York.

A recent editorial discussing a labor-management agreement reached between the Southern Pacific Co. and the Order of Railroad Telegraphers has been criticized on the grounds that it was not based on complete information.

This negative explanation of courtesy on the freeways, however, does an injustice to Southern California drivers.

This, of course, was the sort of thing that used to take place in Southern cities -- putting white houses of prostitution with colored girls in colored neighborhoods and carrying them on openly.

Foliage is the outstanding photo subject in many of the Southern locales mentioned above and some specific tips on how and where to shoot it are in order.

Try some closeups on Southern blossoms to provide a welcome contrast with the many long-view scenics you'll be making.

Reverend Joshual Corder, a Baptist minister, gathered a few citizens of Southern sympathies, to call on Jones and plead with him to spare the structure ; ;

Upon receiving the news, Northern writers, editors, and clergymen heaped accusations of murder on the Southern states, particularly Virginia.

The description of the car was immediately broadcast throughout Southern Maryland on police radio.

The Richard Beesemyers, formerly of Connecticut, have returned to Southern California and are now residing on South Arden Blvd..

`` The white colonnaded, cedar-roofed Southern mansion is directly traceable via the grey and buff stone of grey-skied England to the golden stucco of one particular part of the blue South, the Palladian orbit stretching out from Vicenza: the old mind of Andrea Palladio still smiles from behind many an old rocking chair on a Southern porch, the deep friezes of his architectonic music rise firm above the shallower freeze in the kitchen, his feeling for light and shade brings a glitter from a tall mint julep, his sense of columns framing the warm velvet night has brought together a million couple of mating lips ''.

The Ainus were a primitive people, already living on the island before the principal ancestors of the Japanese came from Southern Asia.

From the American Civil War until World War II, Alabama, like many Southern states, suffered economic hardship, in part because of continued dependence on agriculture.

Winning entirely on the strength of his support in the North and West, no ballots were cast for him in 10 of the 15 Southern slave states, and he won only two of 996 counties in all the Southern states.

* Mwakikagile, Godfrey Nyerere and Africa: End of an Era, Third Edition, Pretoria, South Africa, 2006, on Angola in Chapter 11, " American Involvement in Angola and Southern Africa: Nyerere's Response ", pp. 324 – 346, ISBN 978-0-9802534-1-2.

Violence on behalf of Southern honor reached the floor of the Senate when a Southern Congressmen nearly beat to death Republican Charles Sumner when he ridiculed prominent slaveholders as pimps for slavery.

It is interesting, however, that despite this strong upsurge in Southern writing, almost none of the writers has forsaken the firmly entrenched concept of the white-suited big-daddy colonel sipping a mint julep as he silently recounts the revenue from the season's cotton and tobacco crops ; ;

He called for a greater attraction of industry and a stop to the piracy of industry by Southern states, and a strong fight against discrimination in business and industry.

The housing bill is expected to encounter strong opposition by the coalition of Southern Democrats and conservative Republicans.

* 2005 – A series of strong storms lashes Southern Ontario spawning several tornadoes as well as creating extreme flash flooding within the city of Toronto and its surrounding communities.

The Circumpolar Current is driven by the strong westerly winds which are found in the latitudes of the Southern Ocean.

The fact that mate is so prevalent in the Southern Cone, however, shouldn't necessarily make visitors think that other infusions are rare in the region ; in Argentina especially, given the strong European cultural imprint, the consumption of coffee is very common ( 141 cups per capita, annually ).

The Southern Whigs hoped that by seizing the initiative on this issue that they would be identified as strong defenders of slavery.

too often those principles which give consistency, individuality, and form to the Northern character, which render it staunch, strong, and seaworthy, which bind it together as with iron, are drawn out, one by one, like the bolts of the ill-fitted vessel, and from the miserable, loosened fragments is formed that human anomaly -- a Northern man with Southern principles.

France and the Ottoman Empire, united by mutual opposition to Habsburg rule in both Southern and Central Europe, became strong allies during this period.

When the French revolution created strong nation states, the criminal gangs moved to other poorly controlled regions like the Balkans and Southern Italy, where the seeds were sown for the Sicilian Mafia-the lynchpin of organised crime in the New World.

Pasta is also widespread in the Southern Cone, as well most of the rest of Brazil, mostly pervasive in the areas with mild to strong Italian roots, such as Central Argentina, and the eight southernmost Brazilian states ( where noodles are called macarrão, and more general pasta is under the umbrella term massa, literally " dough ", together with some Japanese noodles, such as bifum rice vermicelli and yakisoba, which also entered general taste ).

The NASCAR Canadian Tire Series enjoys generally strong car-counts using the base of the sport in Canada ( the short-oval region of Southern Ontario ).

Harding also advocated the establishment of an international commission to improve race relations between whites and blacks ; however, strong political opposition by the Southern Democratic bloc prevented the commission.

On the Rhine, Louis XV, now recovered, had besieged and taken Freiburg, after which the forces left in the north were reinforced and besieged the strong places of Southern Netherlands.

In 1815 it was rejoined with Austrian Netherlands, Luxembourg and Liège ( the ' Southern provinces ') to become the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, to create a strong buffer state north of France.

Although weakened and pushed south along the Huai River, the Southern Song found new ways to bolster its strong economy and defend its own state against the Jin Dynasty.

However, its founder Emperor Wu was considered one of the greatest generals during the Southern and Northern Dynasties period, and the reign of its third emperor, Emperor Wen, is known for its political stability and capable administration, not only of its emperor but its strong and honest officials.

Clifford also believed that a strong pro-civil rights stance, while sure to alienate traditional Southern Democrats, would not result in a serious challenge to the party's supremacy in that region.

The Santa Ana winds are strong, extremely dry offshore winds that affect coastal Southern California and northern Baja California in autumn and winter.

Most county residents had roots in northern U. S. states " back east " like Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana, and didn't have the strong slave-holding tradition of other northern Missouri counties like Macon, Audrain, and Monroe ( commonly referred to as Little Dixie ) whose population largely emigrated from Southern states.

Although he complimented McClellan and expressed his " great confidence in your intelligence, zeal, science, and energy ", he replied by letter that the 80, 000 men would be better used on a river-based expedition to control the Mississippi River and split the Confederacy, accompanied by a strong Union blockade of Southern ports.

While it is clear that there is a strong relationship between AAVE and Southern American English, the unique characteristics of AAVE are not fully explained and its origins are still a matter of debate.

The Southern Ocean is noted for its volatile weather and strong currents, which present a challenge for mariners.

She has a strong Southern accent.

However, the UP soon recovered, and was strong enough to take control of Southern Pacific Railroad ( SP ) in 1901 and then was ordered in 1913 by the U. S. Supreme Court to surrender control of the same.