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Various Artists: Stars of the Gospel Highway (SpiritFeel/Shanachie)

James Hunter, Rolling Stone, 8 February 1990

STARS OF the Gospel Highway traces the exuberant rise of black gospel in America. The third in a series coordinated by Anthony Heilbut, a chronicler and producer of the music, it follows Fathers and Sons: Historic Gospel Quartets, released in 1986, and Gospel Warriors, in 1987.

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