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Rev. F. W. McGee (Ford Washington McGee, Winchester, Tennessee, October 5, 1890 - April 8, 1971) was an American gospel singer. He recorded "Fifty Miles of Elbow Room" which appears on The Anthology Of American Folk Music. McGee was born in Winchester, Tennessee on October 5, 1890 and was raised in Hillsboro, Texas. Married at 20, he embarked on a teaching career in Oklahoma. In 1918, he joined Rev. Charles H. Mason's Memphis-based Church of God in Christ and had completely abandoned teaching in favor of preaching by 1920, leading revival meetings in Kansas and Iowa. He built a congregation...

Work ethic. It is not a term you would normally associate with contemporary music, where memorable performances, on stage and in the studio, are just supposed to happen with effortless spontaneity. The reality, of course, is that the best music is the result of dedication, determination and the constant quest to go beyond the good to grasp the great. For Pat McGee Band, the best music is nurtured through a touring schedule that puts the band before its fans up to 250 times a year, an unwavering allegiance to the songwriting art and a fierce commitment to a collective creative...

“Mighty” Mike (Michael Matthew) McGee (born January 12, 1976 in Fort Campbell, KY) is an American slam poet and self-described “stand up poet.” McGee has spent most of his life in and around San Jose, California where he started his career in spoken word, poetry slam and performance poetry in 1998. McGee's extensive touring has brought his stand up comedy infused poetry to most of the known spoken word and poetry slam venues throughout the U.S., Canadian territories and provinces. He is one of the first American poets to perform at the University of Paris (Sorbonne) in France. He performed...