The Commercial Appeal is an E.W. Scripps Company newspaper.
American music is country, blues and gospel.
She'll play at the Center for Southern Folklore at 8 tonight. It's the music I grew up singing. I never really planned to do a gospel record. Her move to gospel isn't as much a change in her musical direction, just a record she wanted to make, she says. For this record I wanted to do a record for fun and because I love the old melodies.