Robert Emmett Winsett (January 15, 1876 — June 26, 1952 (aged 76) was an American composer and publisher of Gospel music.
Winsett was born in Bledsoe County, Tennessee, and graduated from the Bowman Normal School of Music in 1899.
He founded his own publishing company in 1903, and his first publication, Winsett's Favorite Songs, quickly became popular among the Baptist and Pentecostal churches of the American South. Pentecostal Power followed in 1907; that year Winsett completed postgraduate work at a conservatory.
He married Birdie Harris in 1908, and had three sons and two daughters with her. He settled in Fort Smith, Arkansas, continuing to compose gospel songs, of which he would write over 1,000 in total. He became a minister… Go to person page >
Tune Title: [Here we're often tossed and driv'n on the restless sea of time]First Line: Here we're often tossed and driv'n on the restless sea of timeComposer: R. E. WinsettDate: 1951
Tune Title: [Here we're often tossed and driven on the rest]First Line: Here we're often tossed and driven on the restComposer: R. E. WinsettDate: 1916
Tune Title: [Here we're often tossed and driv'n on the restless sea of time]First Line: Here we're often tossed and driv'n on the restless sea of timeComposer: R. E. WinsettDate: 1945
Tune Title: [Here we're often tossed and driv'n on the restless sea of time]First Line: Here we're often tossed and driv'n on the restless sea of timeComposer: R. E. WinsettDate: 1915
Tune Title: [Here we're often tossed and driv'n on the restless sea of time]First Line: Here we're often tossed and driv'n on the restless sea of timeComposer: R. E. WinsettDate: 1911
Tune Title: [Here we’re tossed and driv’n on the restless sea of time]First Line: Here we're often tossed and driv'n on the restless sea of timeComposer: R. E. WinsettDate: 1929