Born: 1887, Lebanon, Alabama.

Died: January 1960.

Baxter grew up in De­Kalb Coun­ty, Al­a­ba­ma. In 1926, he bought part of Vir­gil Stamps’ Gos­pel mu­sic firm, which became the Stamps-Bax­ter Mu­sic and Print­ing Com­pa­ny, one of the most suc­cess­ful Gos­pel mu­sic pub­lish­ers of the ear­ly 20th Century. Bax­ter ran the com­pa­ny’s Chat­ta­noo­ga, Ten­nes­see, of­fice un­til Stamps’ death in 1940, then moved to Dall­as, Tex­as, to run the main of­fice. Af­ter Bax­ter’s death, his wife ran the bus­i­ness un­til she died; it was then sold to Zon­der­van. Bax­ter was in­duct­ed in­to the South­ern Gos­pel Mu­sic As­so­ci­a­tion Hall of Fame in 1997.

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Lyrics

1. God Shall Wipe Away All Tears (© 1940)
2. I Have Peace in My Soul
3. I Hold His Hand (© 1929)
4. I Want to Help Some Weary Pilgrim
5. Living Grace
6. Something Happens
7. Travel the Sunlit Way
8. Try Jesus
9. Zion’s Call (© 1944)