Keeping that tradition alive, The Brockwell Gospel Music School in Brockwell Arkansas has been teaching gospel singing techniques using the shape-note music system since 1947. Aired: 10/20/22 ...

Alabama Life & Culture; This uniquely Southern style of gospel music is revising its 180-year-old hymnal. Published: ; May. 29, 2025, 9:02 a.m.

Well-known southern gospel singer Squire Parsons, famous for writing the classic "Sweet Beulah Land," has died, as confirmed by personal friends. He was 77 years old.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Southern Gospel Music icon, West Virginia native, Squire Parsons died of a heart attack Monday.He was 77. Parsons grew up in the Roane County community of Newton. He went to ...

Well-known southern gospel singer Squire Parsons, famous for writing the classic “Sweet Beulah Land,” has died, as confirmed by personal friends. He was 77 years old.

The Nelons were founded in the seventies by Rex Nelon, Kelly Nelon Clark’s father, who died in 2000. The group was inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame in 2016 and has garnered six Gospel ...

In the world of Southern gospel music, few names are more revered than The Nelons.Family patriarch Rex Nelon began his career with The LeFevres before launching The Rex Nelon Singers in 1977, and ...

Well-known southern Gospel singer and West Virginia native Squire Parsons, famous for writing the classic Gospel song "Sweet Beulah Land," has died. He was 77 years old.

Well-known southern gospel singer Squire Parsons, famous for writing the classic “Sweet Beulah Land,” has died, as confirmed by personal friends. He was 77 years old. Skip to content ...