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SHOUT! Black Gospel Music Moments - Jesus, the Baby King

Olivia Branch Walker may not be a household name in gospel music, but her “Jesus, the Baby King” is a great way to end the year!

Over the past year, we’ve only been able to hear 52 of the more than 50,000 digitized items in the Black Gospel Music Preservation Program’s Black Gospel Archives. Some are bold and brassy hits by the biggest names in gospel music history. Some are humble self-produced albums by artists who felt compelled to share their music and message ... even if only a handful of people ever heard them.

Olivia Branch Walker is one of those artists. She self-produced two albums in the late 1980s, usually playing all keyboards and singing all of the voices. Let’s end the year with a track from her lone Christmas release, “Jesus, the Baby King” ... it’s really good ... and during this time of year especially, it’s important that all voices be heard!

Olivia Branch Walker - Jesus, the Baby King.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).