However, the country churches were sometimes a decade behind the city churches." Most of the Baptist and Pentecostal churches inside the city of Albany, the county seat of Dougherty, already had gospel choirs.
My sister Fannie, who played the piano, organized the choir. Early Baptist, a small rural church in Dougherty County pastored by my father, Rev. "I joined my first and only gospel choir when I joined the church at eleven years of age. Read from the opening essay, "Twentieth-Century Gospel: As the People Moved They Sang a New Song" in If You Don't Go, Don't Hinder Me: The African American Sacred Song Tradition by Bernice Johnson Reagon:
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