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SHOUT! Black Gospel Music Moments - No Room in the Inn

For more than 40 years, the husband and wife duo The Consolers continued to perform old school, deeply traditional gospel music.

Sullivan and Iola Pugh – better known as the Consolers – were the most beloved husband and wife duo during gospel music’s golden age. The Consolers were resolutely traditional gospel, steadfastly country and the greatest purveyors of soulful sermons set in song.

Some of Sullivan’s compositions, including “Waiting for My Child,” “Give Me My Flowers” and “May the Work I’ve Done Speak for Me” are superb examples of that deep woods, old-fashioned soulful gospel that enabled them to record and tour from 1952 to the early 1990s. They also recorded a couple of Christmas songs, including the intensely emotional story song, “No Room in the Inn.”

The Consolers NO ROOM IN THE INN.mp3

I’m Robert Darden … “Shout! Black Gospel Music Moments” is produced by KWBU and the Black Gospel Music Preservation Program at Baylor University Libraries.

Robert F. Darden is the author of two dozen books, most recently: Nothing But Love in God’s Water, Volume II: Black Sacred Music from Sit-In to Resurrection City (Penn State University Press, 2016); Nothing But Love in God’s Water, Volume I: Black Sacred Music from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement(Penn State University Press, 2014); Jesus Laughed: The Redemptive Power of Humor(Abingdon Press, 2008), Reluctant Prophets and Clueless Disciples: Understanding the Bible by Telling Its Stories(Abingdon Press, 2006); and People Get Ready! A New History of Black Gospel Music(Continuum/Bloomsbury, 2004).