Occasionally a single song brings acclaim and recognition to a composer. He writes a song that leaps ahead of all of his other compositions. Such was the case with Squire Parsons and his most famous ...

Edgar Page Stites, the lyricist behind Beulah Land, was a 19th-century American Methodist minister and hymn writer. He served as a soldier in the American Civil War and later became a riverboat pilot.

Frank Newsome leads the congregation at the Little David Church in Haysi, Va. Old Regular Baptists, they sing the way people sang when they first came to the American colonies: without instruments or ...

Lainey Wilson wants the same funeral song as her grandparents. The 33-year-old singer has revealed that when her time comes, she wants mourners to listen to an "old hymn called Beulah Land" because it ...