It is impossible to think of American music in this century without such Southern-derived forms as ragtime, jazz, blues, country, gospel, rhythm and blues, Cajun, zydeco, and rock'n'roll.

(TheBRHM.com) Southern soul is a genre I’ve always enjoyed. A marriage of blues, country, Black gospel music, and R&B of the time. It was a mix of things that made a very district sound in the ...

We sang some gospel music; we sang country music. We kind of felt like ... We sounded as if we had a new, original style, but we got it from Southern gospel. The group got its start in Staunton ...