NEA ain't all bad

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The other day I was flipping through the July 15 1996 issue of Newsweek
in the doctor's waiting room.  There was a short piece about a guitar
shop person noticing all these African-Americans buying steel guitars
and paraphanalia associated with them.

Apparently, he discovered a "new" style of music: some kind of fusion
of black gospel played on steel guitar (or something like that).  He
received an NEA grant to go around to several black Holiness
Pentecostal churches and record the music.  These recordings were used
to release the album _Sacred Steel_.

Richard M., who's gonna look for this album in the nearby mega-monster-music
mall.