Pilgrim Travelers

Pilgrim Travelers One of the early professional African American gospel quartets, the close-harmony group Pilgrim Travelers , was formed in 1936 in Houston, Texas. The group, which initially consisted of Joe Johnson , Kylo Turner , Keith Barber , and Rayfield Taylor , began around 1934 as a community-based group affiliated with the Pleasant Grove Baptist Church. For nearly a decade they sang around the Houston metropolitan area, gradually expanding their performance territory to include more of…