For the Church of the Living God in Toccopola, Miss., the lap steel guitar channels the voice of God through hymns and improvised solos that mix... Sacred Strings Guide Gospel Through Thunder And ...
American mainstream musical audiences are already familiar with the steel guitar as an elemental sound in Hawaiian music and country/western music. But even aficionados of the steel guitar might be ...
Sacred Steel guitar originated in House of God churches in the 1930s when brothers Troman and Willie Eason introduced the instrument to worship services. Troman learned from a Hawaiian steel guitarist ...
ST. CLAIR COUNTY --A hidden jewel in St. Clair County that has received national fame in gospel music is Odenville’s Dale Jones. Years ago, Jones played steel guitar for a famous Southern gospel group ...
Though it hasn't quite yet hit the mainstream, sacred steel has been gathering steam and becoming more recognized on the country's musical landscape in recent years. Tonight, you can get a real taste ...
ORANGE, New Jersey (WABC) -- In this one-room sanctuary on a suburban New Jersey street, a rock-and-roll icon was born. It was in the House of God church in the '80s and '90s a young Robert Randolph ...
The 33-year-old frontman of Robert Randolph & The Family Band has strong roots in gospel music. As a kid, he grew up attending the House of God church in Orange, N.J. That's where he first played the ...
Darick Campbell, a lap steel guitarist with the gospel band the Campbell Brothers, who took the musical style known as sacred steel from Pentecostal churches to the international stage, died May 11 at ...
Some say the purpose of church is to deliver the word of God. If so, what's the role of music in the service? "The music has always been a part of God's way of getting people's attention," says Bishop ...
ORANGE, New Jersey -- In this one-room sanctuary on a suburban New Jersey street, a rock-and-roll icon was born. It was in the House of God church in the '80s and '90s a young Robert Randolph learned ...