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East Texan Washington Phillips was one of the founding fathers of American gospel music. Although he recorded only eighteen tunes (sixteen of which have survived) in five sessions in Dallas between 1927 and 1929, Phillips helped to lay the foundation that resulted in such spiritually-oriented performers as Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the Dixie Hummingbirds and the Five Blind Boys of Alabama.
Jun 12, 2017 · The mystery of Washington Phillips begins the first time you hear his sweetly-sung Christian blues, bathed in a celestial haze of notes from an instrument that sounds like a child’s music box. For me that was in 1999, when Phillips’ mournful, moralistic “Mother’s Last Word To Her Daughter” on a knock-off compilation of 1920’s black ...
I got the (very consistent, and independent) descriptions of Washington Phillips from four surviving relatives: Virgil & Jewel Keeton, Earl Phillips, and Wardell Phillips (Wardell is the great nephew of Washington, and now owns the latter's land). Virgil also added that Phillips was "about the same size and color as B.B. King). Note 2.
And for a long time, Phillips' story, as well as how his music was made had just that. His granddaddy Washington was a slave, and both of that man's sons named children after him. One of them, born in 1891, was committed to a Texas mental hospital in 1930, where he died 8 years later.
Washington Phillips discography and songs: Music profile for Washington Phillips, born 11 January 1880. Genres: Gospel, Country Blues. Albums include The Key to the Kingdom, Goodbye, Babylon, and Take Your Burden to the Lord and Leave It There / Lift Him Up That's All.
Aug 10, 2009 · Take your burden to the Lord and leave it there.
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Jan 25, 2018 · Gospel artist Washington Phillips has been shrouded in mystery for decades. The east Texas musician recorded only 18 songs at a makeshift studio in Dallas in the late 1920s. A handful of dedicated audiophiles have pored over his music. But for the most part, Phillips is unknown to mainstream listeners. One Texas music journalist made it his mission to learn the truth about Phillips’ life ...
