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The original Canton Spirituals from 1943 were Reverend Arthur Lee Jackson Sr., Reverend I.S. Watkins, Jim T Graham, Claude Nichols, Warren G. Ward, Isaac Bolton, Eddie Jackson, Theo Thompson, Roscoe Lucious and founder Harvey Lee Watkins Sr. (December 5, 1929 – November 16, 1994).
Harvey Lee Watkins Jr. (born November 2, 1954) is an American gospel musician and currently the lead singer of The Canton Spirituals, which his father Harvey Watkins Sr. founded. He started his solo music career, in 1990, with the release of, He's There All the Time, that was released by J&B Records.
1985: Canton Spirituals (J&B Records) 1994: Willie Nelson (MCA Records) 2018: Sweet Yonder (Sweet Yonder) on the album Next to You (Date unknown) The Pilgrim Travelers. Re-issued on The Best of Gospel Choirs (1995, Baur Music Production BMP 51143) [9]
The southeast Canton neighborhood with its corner stores, bakeries and churches was a safe place to grow up. The residents, Black, and Italian and German immigrants, all knew one another.
He was born near Pickens in Madison County, Mississippi [1] and started playing blues guitar at the age of 13, but three years later switched into spirituals. After moving to Canton, Mississippi he was first recorded by Alan Lomax, John Bishop and Worth Long in 1979. [1] In 1979 he played at the Mississippi Delta Blues Festival. [1]
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Bob Fernandez, left, was first in line in 2009 to buy six seats for the Bob Dylan concert at Canton Memorial Civic Center. Fernandez, of Green, arrived at 7:30 am to grab his place, followed by 30 ...
Down-East Spirituals and Others: Three Hundred Songs Supplementary to the Author's "Spiritual Folk-Songs of Early America". Augustin, 1939; White and Negro Spirituals, Their Lifespan and Kinship: Tracing 200 Years of Untrammeled Song Making and Singing Among Our Country Folk, with 116 Songs as Sung by Both Races. Augustin, 1943