As Americans endured the toughest economic hardship ever recorded in modern times, the nation’s most treasured contemporary gospel song also debuted. During the Great Depression, families looked for a ...

Ninety years after Albert E. Brumley wrote "I'll Fly Away" in the cotton fields outside Rock Island, Oklahoma, the gospel hymn is still filling churches, movie soundtracks and, more recently, his own ...

What started as a desperate prayer in an Oklahoma cotton field became one of the most recorded gospel songs in American history. Now the artist's family is retracing his steps.