DORSEY, THOMAS ANDREW. Gospel songwriter ( in Villa Rica, Georgia). He came from a musical family: his mother played church organ, one uncle was a church choir director, and another was a roving guitarist who played for country dances. As a child he occasionally traveled with his father, an itinerant minister and revivalist. His family moved to Atlanta, Georgia, when he was about eleven years old. He studied piano with pianists in a local theater where he had a...