Johnie Elvin Baxter
1920 - 2010

Johnie E. Baxter
Playing Shaped Note Music at Age 87

The QuickTime video above was filmed in April of 2008 after the effects of his Alzheimer's disease had already begun to gradually take away his abilities. It shows him singing and playing his organ using his shaped note songbooks. Among other songs included are Does Jesus Care?, He Was Nailed to the Cross for Me, Lift Me Up Above the Shadows, and If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again. This video is about 15 minutes long and, even though the image size has been kept small, the file runs about 15MB, and thus is probably best viewed with a broadband Internet connection.

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Roger Baxter
5778 Brookway Drive
Winston Salem, North Carolina 27105-1429 USA