When You Bow Down in the Evening, Say a Prayer for Me

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When You Bow Down in the Evening, Say a Prayer for Me: A Salute to Elijah Woods, Sr. and his Gospel Quartet Musical Journey, 1945-2007

Alvin Woods and Elijah Woods, Jr.

2020

Elijah Woods, Sr. was a gospel tenor singer, prominent throughout Eastern North Carolina. In this book, his sons pay tribute to his legacy, while compiling an encyclopedic record of dozens of the gospel quartets, and hundreds of singers, who have made the area around Kinston, North Carolina, a center of African American sacred music for generations.