The Blackwood Brothers Quartet is the most successful group in the history of gospel music, selling millions of LPs throughout the world and influencing untold numbers of music artists such as a young Elvis Presley who openly adored the group. Outside the circumscribed world of Southern gospel music, few knew of the rise, tragedy, and huge marketing reach of this most businesslike and professional of gospel groups. In the Midnight Aisle tells the complete story, the beginnings in the poverty belt of the rural South, the first national exposure of a Southern gospel group, and a terrible plane crash that claimed the lives of two members. It also tells of the heroic rise of the group from the ashes of disaster to become a nationwide television success and a key to RCA's stable of profitable artists. Award-winning music writer and author Tom Graves relates the details with passion, verve, and unmistakable literary flair and style.

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