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The Canton Spirituals are an award-winning gospel recording group and are regarded as pioneers in the genre of traditional gospel music. Founded in Canton, Mississippi in 1943, the original Canton Spirituals were Eddie Jackson, Theo Thompson, Roscoe Lucious and founder Harvey Watkins, Sr. (December 5, 1929-November 16, 1994). Today, the group is fronted by Watkins' son, Harvey, Jr., and consists of Billy Voss, David Curry, Merlin Lucious, Alton Hollis and Maurice Morgan. .

There are at least 3 different artists named Rituals. 1) Rituals hails from the dry, washed out deserts of Phoenix, Arizona featuring current members of Hella Mounds. This project is a much more darker and more doomy incarnation than HM, but stills holds on to some of the more atmospheric/traits of their other musical underpinnings. Highly recommended for fans of Fall of Efrafa, Cult of Luna, Year of No Light, Rosetta, Amenra and Callisto. Even though Rituals have only been around a short time, they have already began to build momentum. They've played shows with the likes of Agalloch, Thou,...

Spirituals is the moniker for the sample-based electronic music endeavor of drummer, producer, and graphic artist Tyler Tadlock. In his hometown of Jackson, Mississippi, Tyler began experimenting with samples from local free jazz projects and sounds recorded with his laptop to form rhythm driven compositions. After relocating to Portland, OR, he began work on his first album, drawing on a wealth of samples, meticulously chopped and arranged to form electronic music which pays homage his jazz roots. .

It is a time of desolation, chaos and queso. Brother pitted against brother; babies havin' babies (the last one is directly taken from a strongbad's speech, a textual tribute). Then one day came a band, a band with several pieces of various small sausages embedded between their teeth. And beer. And no girls. And the heart of a champion. Sooo, deep in its heart (the band's heart) a great need for changes is hidden, really hidden (only the deep-sea fangly fishes know what I am talking about). This is a great biography. But, one day, that kind of need turned...