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Home » The Secret History of Chicago Music: Georgia Tom Dorsey
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The Secret History of Chicago Music: Georgia Tom Dorsey

He had his biggest hit as a raunchy bluesman, but today Thomas A. Dorsey is known as “the father of gospel music.”
by Chicago Reader December 12, 2013August 19, 2021

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