Some more famous groups who sing Southern Gospel Music:

• The Gaither Vocal Band
• The Hoppers
• The Cathedrals
• Greater Vision
• Gold City
• Kingsmen
• Karen Peck and New River
• The Isaacs
• Palmetto State Quartet
• Legacy Five
• And Many, Many More!

One of the biggest resources for Southern Gospel Music is:

• Singing News Magazine

Some of our favorite Southern Gospel songs include:

• He’s Still Waiting By The Well (Greater Vision)
• What a Day That Will Be
• I’ll Fly Away
• I Just Feel Like Something Good Is About To Happen
• Fully Alive

I tried to find an official definition of “Southern Gospel” Music. The best I could find was from Singing News Magazine that attributes the founder of Southern Gospel Music to James Vaughan in 1910 who formed the first professional traveling male quartet to promote his new songbook. Another person refers to “Southern Gospel” as a style of music most closely associated with collections of gospel hymns sung in a quartet style that were published by the Stamps/Baxter Publishing Co. (which actually began as a Texas branch of the original publishing company James Vaughan began.)

Although everyone has their own opinion of what Southern Gospel Music is, there is not really a solid definition in any dictionary. So here is my opinion:

By definition from the American Heritage Dictionary: “Gospel Music is a kind of distinctively American religious music that is associated with evangelism and is based on the melodies of folk music blended with elements of spirituals and jazz.”

“Southern Gospel” to me is just any gospel music, especially hymns, done in a quartet or trio singing style.