Although the Tupelo, Mississippi-based Spiritual QC's have existed in some form since 1968, it wasn't until the late '90s that they began recording and getting their due as a highly skilled traditional-styled Black gospel outfit. And it wasn't until 1998 that the group started billing lead singer Lee Williams ahead of the Spiritual QC's' name. They made up for lost time, at least in a studio recording sense, with successive Billboard-charting albums released throughout the mid-2010s.
Williams began performing gospel music as young as age eight, when his uncle -- a member of a...