REVEREND MISTER GATEMOUTH, THE ONE WHO BURIED SIN: the Death and Life of “Gatemouth” Moore

by Burgin Mathews

$125 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

First edition

Birmingham, AL: Lady Muleskinner Press, 2013. First edition. 24mo. 46 pp. Double-page illustration from a photograph of Reverend Gatemouth Moore laid out in a coffin. Biographical sketch of Dwight “Gatemouth” Moore 1914-2004 , an African-American blues sing in the 1940s who became a well-known radio disc jockey in Birmingham, Alabama in the 1950s, then a rousing Evangelical preacher; in 1952 he held a funeral to bury sin, having himself carried

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