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45-635: The flagship of The Gospel Station network, KTGS broadcasts a southern gospel format. They play southern gospel music from artists like The Gaither Vocal Band , Karen Peck & New River , Ernie Haase & Signature Sound , Triumphant Quartet , The Crabb Family , Greater Vision , Jeff & Sheri Easter , The Kingsmen , The Nelons , The Isaacs , plus they play lots of classic songs and artists such as The Hinsons , The Happy Goodmans , The Cathedrals , and more. In addition to KTGS, The Gospel Station Network airs on 9 additional full powered stations and 6 low powered translators. The bulk of its network

90-549: A Christian alternative to mainstream secular music . Sometimes known as " quartet music" for its traditional "four men and a piano" set up, southern gospel has evolved over the years into a popular form of music across the United States and overseas, especially among baby boomers and those living in the Southern United States . Like other forms of music, the creation, performance, significance, and even

135-471: A capella (jazz-style singing with no instruments) songs, country, bluegrass, spirituals, and "convention songs". Because it grew out of the musical traditions of white musicians from the American South, the name Southern gospel was used to differentiate it from the black gospel tradition. Convention songs typically have contrasting homophonic and contrapuntal sections. In the homophonic sections,

180-528: A church male quartet and establishing his own church-related music publishing company in Atlanta. In 1889 Tillman was assisting his father with a tent meeting in Lexington, South Carolina . The elder Tillman lent the tent to an African American group for a singing meeting on a Sunday afternoon. It was then that young Tillman first heard the spiritual " The Old Time Religion " and then quickly scrawled

225-506: A man by the name of Milan Williams, who was an evangelist in the late 1800s. He collaborated with Tillman and reflected his desire to write a song with these lyrics, and apparently the song was completed within a half hour. "Ready to suffer grief or pain" had a British author in the tradition of the Keswick Hymn-Book , but Tillman wrote the tune which is invariably and exclusively used in the United States. Tillman first published

270-547: A more classical singing style. Lyrically, most progressive southern gospel songs are patterned after traditional southern gospel in that they maintain a clear evangelistic and/or testimonial slant. Southern gospel purists view lyrical content and the underlying musical style as the key determining factors for applying the southern gospel label to a song. Although there are some exceptions, most southern gospel songs would not be classified as Praise and Worship . Few southern gospel songs are sung "to" God as opposed to "about" God. On

315-450: A number of internet-only southern gospel "radio" stations. Two popular satellite stations that feature southern gospel are channel 34 on XM Satellite Radio and Channel 65 (changed from 67). On Sirius Satellite Radio. Both play the same feed entitled, " enLighten on SiriusXm". Enlighten plays southern gospel and has several featured programs which air weekly including Paul Heil's Gospel Greats and Bill Gaither 's Homecoming Radio . Over

360-553: A piano and banjo in areas that were influenced by bluegrass music such as Appalachia . Over time, full bands were added and even later, pre-recorded accompaniments (soundtracks) were introduced. In the first decades of the twentieth century, southern gospel drew much of its creative energy from the holiness movement churches that arose throughout the south. Early gospel artists such as The Speer Family , The Stamps Quartet, The Blackwood Family, and The Lefevre Trio achieved wide popularity through their recordings and radio performances in

405-586: A popularizer of the gospel song . He had a knack for adopting material from eclectic sources and flowing it into the mix now known as southern gospel , becoming one of the formative influences on that genre. The youngest son of Baptist preacher James Lafayette Tillman and Mary (Davis) Tillman, for 14 years prior to 1887 he painted houses, sold sheet music for a company in Raleigh, North Carolina , and peddled Wizard Oil . In 1887 he focused his career more on his church and musical talents, singing first tenor in

450-626: A solo ; Willie Nelson later dubbed his voice into that version to form a duet. On January 14, 2012, Brad Paisley performed a 4/4 rendition as guest on Garrison Keillor 's Prairie Home Companion . Members of the Western Writers of America chose the song as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time. The song features prominently in the 1979 TV movie Mr. Horn , sung first by David Carradine , and by Richard Widmark and Karen Black towards its ending. The melody and some elements of

495-467: A tremendous surge in popularity during the 1990s thanks to the efforts of Bill and Gloria Gaither and their Gaither Homecoming tours and videos, which began as a reunion of many of the best known and loved SGM individuals in 1991. Thanks in part to the Homecoming series, southern gospel music now has fans across the United States and in a number of foreign countries like Ireland and Australia. By

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540-511: A way to teach quartet members how to concentrate on singing their own part. Examples of convention songs include "Heavenly Parade", "I'm Living In Canaan Now", " Give the World a Smile ", and "Heaven's Jubilee". Southern gospel is sometimes called "quartet music" by fans because of the originally all-male, tenor-lead-baritone-bass quartet makeup. Early quartets were typically either a cappella or accompanied only by piano or guitar, and in some cases

585-401: Is like a mountain railroad", the song has been recorded by Boxcar Willie , Carter Family , Bill Monroe , Chuck Wagon Gang , The Oak Ridge Boys , Tennessee Ernie Ford , Merle Haggard , Johnny Cash , Brad Paisley , Russ Taff , Amazing Rhythm Aces , and many others. Tillman's tune is in 3/4 time , but a 4/4 version became also widespread after Patsy Cline recorded it that way in 1959 as

630-530: Is located in Oklahoma, and spreads across portions of the Tulsa , Oklahoma City , and Lawton markets. With stations that also cover Wichita Falls , Paris , and Amarillo, Texas . K261CR/K297BB/K268BR rebroadcasts KWFF-HD4. K284BH rebroadcasts KBZD-HD4. This station was assigned call sign KAZC on December 8, 1997, changing to KTGS on November 1, 2008. Here is a timeline: December 1998 Our FIRST station

675-603: The Mormon Tabernacle Choir . Tillman was so recognized in his own time that, at the 1893 World Convention of Christian Workers in Boston , he served as songleader in place of Dwight L. Moody 's associate Ira D. Sankey . Tillman's Assembly Book (1927) was selected by both Georgia and South Carolina for the musical scores used in public school programs. Tillman broke into radio early and performed regularly on Atlanta's radio station WSB 750 AM . Once in 1930

720-674: The NBC radio network put him on the air for an hour featuring his singing while his daughter accompanied on the piano. He also recorded on Columbia Records . Tillman, who spent most of his life in Georgia and Texas , published 22 songbooks. He is memorialized in the Southern Gospel Museum and Hall of Fame and was among the first individuals to be inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame . Charlie D. Tillman

765-671: The Southern Baptist Hymnal Committee decided to name the tune TILLMAN. Reynolds disputed the author's identity as A. C. Palmer, but other researchers have accepted the author's identity as Asa C. Palmer (1845–1882). Forrest Mason McCann describes "When I Get to the End of the Way" as "A popular song with older folk" (like some hymnals which carry it, McCann indicates the song by its first line, "The sands have been washed"). The ability of Tillman's work to appeal outside

810-526: The 1920s, 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. On October 20, 1927, The Stamps Quartet recorded its early hit "Give The World A Smile" for RCA Victor, which become the Quartet's theme song. The Stamps Quartet was heard on the radio throughout Texas and the South. A handful of groups were considered pioneers in southern gospel music for a series of "firsts." The Blackwood Brothers, with James Blackwood and J.D. Sumner became

855-547: The 1950s and 1960s was the Statesmen Quartet , which set the trend for broad appeal of the all-male quartets that would develop years later. The Statesmen were known for their showmanship and introduction of jazz, ragtime, and even some early rock and roll. Elements into their music and their stage appearance with trendy suits and wide audience appeal and were known for their signature song, "Happy Rhythm" (Rockin and a'Rollin). Traditional southern gospel music underwent

900-468: The 1990s, the "old-timey" quartet-style music began to develop to include more soloists and duos. Although still mostly popular in the Southeast and Southwest , it has a nationwide and even international audience. The music remains "more country than city, more down-home than pretentious". In 2005, The Radio Book , a broadcast yearbook published by M Street Publications, reported 285 radio stations in

945-591: The British lyrics with his tune in Tillman's Revival No. 4 in Atlanta in 1903. The British lyrics are in five quatrains . Tillman moved the original first quatrain into the refrain of his version and altered the words to wed better to the repeated nature of a refrain. He printed the song with a reference to 2 Samuel 15:15 ("Behold, thy servants are ready to do whatsoever my lord the king shall appoint"). In conveying this background, William Jensen Reynolds observes that

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990-665: The End of the Way" ("The sands have been washed"). The Cyberhymnal lists also the following: "My Mother's Bible" is among the 'Mother Songs' of the tear-jerker variety Archived 2011-05-22 at the Wayback Machine as selected by Mudcat Cafe. Notwithstanding the sentimentality, "My Mother's Bible" emerged in a number of generally stately hymnals, including the Broadman Hymnal edited by Baylus Benjamin McKinney and Christian Hymns . The lyrics were written by

1035-404: The U.S. with a primary format designation as "southern gospel," including 175 AM stations and 110 FM stations. In fact, southern gospel was the 9th most popular format for AM stations and the 21st most popular for FM. Southern gospel radio promoters routinely service more than a thousand radio stations which play at least some southern gospel music each week. Recent years have also seen the advent of

1080-412: The definition of southern gospel varies according to the cultural and social context. It is composed and performed for many purposes, ranging from aesthetic pleasure, religious or ceremonial purposes, or as an entertainment product for the marketplace. The date of southern gospel's establishment, as a distinct genre, is generally considered to be 1910. The year the first professional quartet was formed for

1125-614: The first group to travel in a bus, which is on display at the Southern Gospel Museum and Hall of Fame at Dollywood in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee . Sumner also was instrumental in creating the National Quartet Convention , an annual music festival where many groups, both known and well known perform for a week. The Speer Family was known for bringing blended groups to mainstream popularity where both male and female performers toured together. The best known group of

1170-441: The first line as "'Tis the old-time religion" (likewise the repeated first line of the refrain) to accommodate the song more to the tastes of white southern church congregations and their singing culture. In 1890, Tillman set to music a hymn by Baptist preacher M.E. Abbey, "Life's Railway to Heaven." (Abbey had drawn from an earlier poem, "The Faithful Engineer," by William Shakespeare Hays. ) Also known by its first line "Life

1215-492: The four parts sing the same words and rhythms. In the contrapuntal sections, each group member has a unique lyric and rhythm. These songs are called "convention songs" because various conventions were organized across the United States for the purpose of getting together regularly and singing songs in this style. Convention songs were employed by training centers like the Stamps-Baxter School Of Music as

1260-533: The genre's roots can be found in the publishing work and "normal schools" or singing schools of Aldine S. Kieffer and Ephraim Ruebush . Southern gospel was promoted by traveling singing school teachers, quartets, and shape note music publishing companies such as the A. J. Showalter Company (1879) and the Stamps-Baxter Music and Printing Company . Over time, southern gospel came to be an eclectic musical form with groups singing traditional hymns,

1305-485: The genre. The move to internet services has brought along companies such as SoGospelNews.com which has become a noted e-zine forum for southern gospel and has remained a supporter for the past twelve years. It too contains the music charts with forums and chat rooms available to the fans. Internet Radio has broadened the southern gospel music fan base by using computer technologies and continual streaming. Some of these media outlets are: Sunlite Radio which features many of

1350-434: The last decades, a newer version of southern gospel has grown in popularity. This style is called progressive southern gospel and is characterized by a blend of traditional southern gospel, bluegrass, modern country, contemporary Christian and pop music elements. Progressive southern gospel generally features artists who push their voices to produce a sound with an edge to it. The traditional style southern gospel singers employ

1395-498: The lyrics were adapted for the union song, "Miner's Lifeguard," with a refrain about mine operators who cheated workers out of honest weight, "Union miners, work together; Heed no operator's tale; Keep your hand upon the dollar, and your eye upon the scale." Besides "The Old Time Religion" and "Life’s Railway to Heaven" the Cyber Hymnal lists other Tillman works, including "My Mother's Bible" as well as "Ready" and "When I Get to

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1440-404: The other hand, southern gospel lyrics are typically overt in their Christian message unlike Contemporary Christian music (CCM) which sometimes has had "double entendre" lyrics, which could be interpreted as being about a devout love for God or an earthly love for a man or woman. Becoming popular through songbooks, such as those published by R. E. Winsett of Dayton, Tennessee , southern gospel

1485-657: The purpose of selling songbooks for the James D. Vaughan Music Publishing Company in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee . Nonetheless, the style of the music itself had existed for at least 35 years prior—although the traditional wisdom that southern gospel was "invented" in the 1870s by circuit preacher Everett Beverly is spurious. The existence of the genre prior to 1910 is evident in the work of Charles Davis Tillman (1861–1943), who popularized "The Old Time Religion", wrote "Life's Railway to Heaven" and published 22 songbooks. Some of

1530-547: The song appears) were a major consideration in which works to include. Jorgenson's hymnal, which offered traditional hymns and gospel songs, had spread "The Sands Have Been Washed" internationally throughout the Restoration Movement with which Jorgenson's hymnal was associated. "When I Get to the End of the Way" ("The sands have been washed") has also been popularized internationally by George Beverly Shea , Bill Gaither , and Lynda Randle . Additionally, Tillman

1575-541: The song ever since, in the culture of all southerners irrespective of race. The SATB arrangement in Tillman's songbooks became known to Alvin York and is thus the background song for the 1941 Academy Award film Sergeant York , which spread "The Old-Time Religion" to audiences far beyond the South . Following Tillman's nuanced example, editors with a largely white target market such as Elmer Leon Jorgenson formalized

1620-614: The southern gospel programs likewise heard on traditional radio. This list includes The Gospel Greats with Paul Heil, which recently celebrated 30 years on the air, Southern Gospel USA, a weekly half-hour countdown show hosted by Gary Wilson, Classic radio programs such as The Old Gospel Ship and Heaven's Jubilee with Jim Loudermilk. Another online station is "The Gospel Station." Charles Davis Tillman Charles Davis Tillman (March 20, 1861, Tallassee, Alabama – September 2, 1943, Atlanta, Georgia ) —also known as Charlie D. Tillman, Charles Tillman, Charlie Tillman, and C. D. Tillman—was

1665-541: The time and context of southern gospel is evident in the inclusion of "The Sands Have Been Washed" in the British Favourite Hymns of the Church where the tune name is indicated as THE END OF THE WAY; in the "Preface" (pp. iii-viii) editors Albert E. Winstanley & Graham A. Fisher emphasize that requests from churches which had previously used Elmer Leon Jorgenson's Great Songs of the Church (where

1710-527: The tune itself has been widely recognized as POOR WAYFARING STRANGER or just WAYFARING STRANGER ever since Tillman spread it beyond the Sacred Harp tradition in his Revival songbook of 1891. It has been frequently analyzed, arranged, and recorded, its artists including Burl Ives , Joan Baez , Tennessee Ernie Ford , Johnny Cash , Dusty Springfield , Emmylou Harris , Bill Monroe , Jack White , Annah Graefe , Selah , and Peter, Paul and Mary , and

1755-427: The words and the rudiments of the tune on a scrap of paper. Tillman published the work to his largely white church market in 1891. Tillman was not first in publishing the song, an honor which goes to G. D. Pike in his 1873 Jubilee Singers and Their Campaign for Twenty Thousand Dollars . Rather, Tillman's contribution was that he culturally appropriated the song into the repertoire of white southerners , whose music

1800-420: Was added December 2022 KWFF -HD4 99.7 FM OKC, OK December 2023 Southern gospel See also: Southern gospel music is a genre of Christian music . Its name comes from its origins in the southeastern United States . Its lyrics are written to express either personal or a communal faith regarding biblical teachings and Christian life, as well as (in terms of the varying music styles) to give

1845-503: Was and is one of the few genres to use recordings, radio, and television technologies from the very beginning for the advancements of promoting the genre. One of the longest-running print magazines for southern gospel music has been the Singing News . They started in the early 1970s supplying radio airplay charts and conducting annual fan based awards. They also supply popular topic forums for southern gospel fans to meet and discuss

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1890-422: Was created October 2011 KBWW 88.3 FM Broken Bow, OK Fall 2013 App for Android phones was built Fall 2016 Apple CarPlay and Android Auto Added August 2018 KCBK 91.5 FM Wichita Falls, TX (Frederick, OK) Fall 2018 Began broadcasting on Alexa January 2019 K261CR 100.1 FM Chickasha, OK January 2021 K284BH 104.7 FM/ KBZD -HD4 99.7 FM Amarillo, TX November 2022 ROKU streaming for Smart TVs

1935-520: Was derived from gospel , a style that was a distinct influence on Buddy Holly and Elvis Presley . As published by Tillman, the song contains verses not found in Pike's 1873 version. These possibly had accumulated in oral tradition or/and were augmented by lyrics crafted by Tillman. More critically, perhaps, Tillman's published version of the tune has a more-mnemonic cadence which may have helped it gain wider currency. Tillman's emendations have characterized

1980-550: Was in Ada, OK KTGS 89.9 (later changed to 89.5FM) Summer 2000 Began online streaming July 2002 KTGS 88.3 FM Tishomingo, OK January 2004 KIMY 93.9 FM Watonga, OK July 2005 KVAZ 91.5 FM Henryetta, OK June 2007 K274BA 102.7 FM Paris, TX September 2007 K286BB 105.1 FM Ada, OK 2008 K286BR 101.5 FM OKC, OK December 2009 KOSG 103.9 FM Bartlesville, OK 2010 K297BB 107.3 FM Edmond, OK January 2011 WRCC 88.3 FM Dibrell, TN Summer 2011 App for Apple devices

2025-399: Was responsible for publicizing the lyrics of "I Am a Poor Wayfaring Stranger " from Bever's Christian Songster (1858) together with two additional stanzas from Taylor's Revival Hymns & Plantation Melodies (1882) and popularizing the combination with the minor key tune of various African American and Appalachian nuance. The combination is so hauntingly striking and memorable that

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