Scene: Memphis Gospel, 1920s – Present
By Mike McGonigal
Memphis, TN is justly revered as the birthplace of Sun studios, the modern supermarket, Stax records and Justin Timberlake. And while it's the city of Chicago that can lay claim to being the birthplace of modern gospel, the music's history in Memphis is full of grit, funk and sanctified brimstone. Much of this arises from the fact that Memphis was a central force in the rise of Pentecostalism. Since the early 1910s, the Church of… more »