Singer Amanda Taylor (far left) leads a group of musicians (from left: J.W. Allen, Vernice Clemmer, Hershel Jeanes, and Marlin Grisham) in a country gospel song at a singing held at Emanuel Holiness Church, just outside of Ripley.

Photo by Wiley Prewitt.

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