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George Washington Phillips

East Texan Washington Phillips was among the founding fathers of American gospel music. Although he documented only eighteen music (sixteen which possess survived) in five periods in Dallas between 1927 and 1929, Phillips helped to place the building blocks that led to such spiritually-oriented performers as Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the …

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