Earlier this year, Marty Raybon laid down a stunning cover of Squire Parsons’ “Sweet Beulah Land” at a recent show, and it took the crowd to church. The performance took place shortly after Charlie ...

Edgar Page Stites, the lyricist behind Beulah Land, was a 19th-century American Methodist minister and hymn writer. He served as a soldier in the American Civil War and later became a riverboat pilot.