God's Heaven by Dillard Crume

Other professional groups began to gain an interest in the singing and musical abilities of the brothers, and at the age of 19, Dillard was approached by the famous “Five Blind Boys” of Mississippi to become their guitarist and background singer. He accepted their offer and traveled extensively within the United States.

After singing and playing with the 'Blind Boys', Dillard became a member of the “Highway Q.Cs”, of Chicago, IL.

After his stint with the 'Highway Q.Cs', Dillard left the gospel field for awhile and played R&B and Rock & Roll, Blues, etc., for about 10 years.

While visiting the late great “Willie Dixon” (Little Red Rooster, Wang Dang Doodle) one day, Dillard got his first chance to leave the country.

Willie was the American coordinator for the “American Folk Blues Festival” of 1968, which was booked out of Frankfurt, Germany by the 'Lippman Rau' concert bureau, and gave Dillard the opportunity to travel to Europe as the bass player and emcee of the show, which consisted of thirteen acts including; “Son House”, “Sonny Terry & Brownie McGee”, “Little Walter”, “Houndog Taylor”, “KoKo Taylor”, “Odie Payne”, and others.

After years of playing and singing R&B & Rock & Roll, which included a stint with his own band (The Soul Rockers), Dillard felt an emptiness in his life. Realizing what that emptiness was, Dillard returned to 'gospel' singing as the lead singer and producer of the world famous “Soul Stirrers” of Chicago, Illinois in 1976.

This is the very same group that gave the world the late great “Sam Cooke”.

Dillard traveled even more extensively with the 'Soul Stirrers', having traveled to all of the western European countries, the Carribean, Canada, Japan, etc., singing

God's praises.

In 1998, Dillard formed his own gospel group called: “Dillard Crume” and the “Soul Crusaders”, and has a new CD release out at this time.

Little did Dillard know when he had a dream at the tender age of five, that his dream would become reality, and allow him to travel the world over, singing and playing the music he loves.

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