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... Some say the purpose of church is to deliver the ...

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 ...

The "Sacred Steel" tradition born in the House of God Church some 80 years ago employed the pedal steel and lap steel guitars as the centerpiece of their message. The steel guitars, long an eloquent ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mark Wayne will perform a classic country and country gospel concert at First United Methodist Church in Tomah on Tuesday, July 26 from 7-8 p.m. He will perform old-style country—covers of Johnny Cash ...

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 (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 ...