Recordings of these sold millions of copies in both gospel and secular markets in the 20th century.Īccording to Wikipedia, Gospel historian Horace Boyer writes that gospel music "has no more imposing figure" than Thomas Dorsey, and the Cambridge Companion to Blues and Gospel Music states that he "defined" the genre. Folklorist Alan Lomax claims that Dorsey "literally invented gospel". In Living Blues, Jim O'Neal compares Dorsey in gospel to W. He penned 3,000 songs, a third of them gospel, including "Take My Hand, Precious Lord" and "Peace in the Valley". He was an American musician, composer, and Christian evangelist influential in the development of early blues and 20th-century gospel music. Thomas Andrew Dorsey was born in Georgia in 1899, the son of a nomadic minister.
The Story Behind Precious Lord, Take My Hand
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