March 2, 2018

677 The Five Soul Stirrers “Walk Around” 1940

Rebert Harris “helped change the group’s sound to a slower, deeper, more passionate hard gospel style. The group’s influence quickly outgrew the Houston gospel scene, where their acolytes indeed a couple of farm boy cousins from Cleveland, Texas…The Stirrers revolutionized gospel when they added a second lead singer, a fifth member of the quartet, so the four-part harmony wouldn’t be disturbed as the two leads took turns wailing” (Michael Corcoran, All Over the Map, 2005).

The Five Soul Stirrers “Walk Around”

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