J.W. Vaughan
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J.W. Vaughan was an early-twentieth-century gospel songwriter and a member of the extended Vaughan family of Tennessee shape-note teachers, credited with the country and bluegrass-gospel standard “The Old Country Church.”
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- Worked in the orbit of the James D. Vaughan Music Publishing Company of Lawrenceburg, Tennessee, the leading Southern-gospel songbook publisher of the early twentieth century.
- Credited as the author of “The Old Country Church.”
- The song has been recorded by Roy Acuff, Bill Monroe, the Stanley Brothers, the Chuck Wagon Gang, and many other country and bluegrass-gospel acts.
