Rev. Louis Overstreet

Born in 1921 near Lakeland, Louisiana, Louis Overstreet began singing in gospel quartets at an early age. He was working in a turpentine plant in Dequincy, Louisiana, in 1958, however, when he felt the call to become a full-time minister. Blessed with a ferocious, deep singing voice and accompanying himself on electric guitar and bass drum (playing both at once), the Rev. Louis Overstreet, along with a gospel quartet made up of his four sons, took his own brand of street evangelism around Louisiana and to Texas, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Arizona, Nevada, and California ...