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Phillips, Washington

LC control no.n 93008857
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Personal name headingPhillips, Washington
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Variant(s)Phillips, George Washington
Associated countryUnited States
Profession or occupationGospel musicians
Found inStorefront & streetcorner gospel [SR] 1991: label (Washington Phillips)
All music guide WWW site, Aug. 7, 2003 (Washington Phillips; b. 1891, d. Dec. 31, 1939, Austin, TX; gospel musician, minister)
Enc. of American gospel music, 2005 (Phillips, Washington; b. ca. 1891, probably in Freestone County, Tex., d. Dec. 31, 1938)
All music guide WWW site, Aug. 14, 2006 (George Washington Phillips; Washington Phillips; b. Jan. 11, 1889, Texas, d. Sept. 20, 1954, Texas; "It was long thought that Phillips was committed to a state mental institution in Austin, Texas less than a year after his last 78 was recorded, and that he spent the final years of his life confined there until his death in 1939 of tuberculosis at the age of 47. There is some compelling new evidence, however, that this was a different George Washington Phillips, and that the gospel musician actually settled in Simsboro, Texas after his recording sessions, living there until 1954, when he died from injuries sustained in a fall at the age of 74.")
Wikipedia, Aug. 14, 2006 (Washington Phillips; b. 1880, Texas, d. 1954; gospel musician; recorded 18 songs between 1927 and 1929)