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Video of Lucy Barnes, Nathaniel Mitchell, and Fleeta Mitchell, Athens, Georgia, 1989 August 10

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@ Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection

Georgia Folklore Society

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Choirs perform gospel music at Bethlehem Church, followed by a sermon. Athens musician Lucy Barnes is interviewed. She discusses how the neighborhood has changed, her late husband Brady "Doc" Barnes, and her gospel singing career. She sings some songs with blind gospel musicians Reverend Nathaniel Mitchell and Fleeta Mitchell. Between songs, Fleeta and Nathaniel Mitchell also discusses their singing careers. Songs: He Didn't Have To But He Did, Jesus Is My Only Friend, Jesus Said It And I Believe It, Good Lord I Done Done What You Told Me To Do, Jesus Will Never Say No, Brother You Ought To Been There, Jesus All The Time, I Won't Have To Cry No Mo', Show Me The Way.

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Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection

Record Harvested From

Digital Library of Georgia

Keywords

  1. African American Choirs
  2. African American Women Musicians
  3. African Americans
  4. Athens
  5. Barnes, Brady, 1985
  6. Barnes, Lucy
  7. Blind Musicians
  8. Georgia
  9. Gospel Music
  10. Gospel Musicians
  11. Mitchell, Fleeta, 1913
  12. Mitchell, Nathaniel, 1912?
  13. Music
  14. Singing
  15. Songs
  16. Women

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