John Thomas Hinds (1866-1938) was a gospel preacher, teacher and evangelist for the Churches of Christ.

The show is more than a celebration of Johnson's powers as an old-time gospel preacher.

A charismatic gospel preacher, he served as the minister or assistant minister of the Henderson Church of Christ at various times periods.

His robust baritone rose and rasped with the cadences of a gospel preacher, and he made even quick asides sound like crucial tidings.

He broke into the group's hit, "Little Walter," a blues chant, hesitating like a gospel preacher, and he sent the melody soaring over the audience.

But he worked the audience with the confidence of a gospel preacher, and cheerfully prescribed, near the end of the set, that "Making love is good for you."

"I feel like a gospel preacher half the time," she proclaimed, "so that we don't begin to slip away from what we were."

He was a gospel preacher answered by tambourine-shaking backup singers.

Like a gospel preacher, he took it for granted that his audience shared all his best impulses.

He is a renowned gospel preacher.