Passionate about establishing a better quality of life, black sharecroppers began to migrate from the rural South to cities in the urban North – Chicago, NYC, Detroit- in hopes that they would be able to find higher paying jobs. This great migration of blacks lead to an addition of new instruments and rhythm to blues, causing there to be a change and amplification of the blues sound. This growth in blues influenced the development of a new genre named gospel. Adding instruments to jubilee quartet and blues music, gospel introduced a new form of religious music never seen before, and instantaneously gained widespread popularity among Blacks. Characterized by religious text, ad-libbing, musical accompaniment, and call-response, gospel represents the bridge between black secular music and traditional religious music. However, over the years gospel music has adopted many new forms and ways of expression. Keeping this in mind, I will be comparing and contrasting both an old and new gospel song to evaluate the ways in which the genre has changed over the years.