NEA ain't all bad

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>>>>> "Richard" == Richard Masoner <richardm@cd.com> writes:

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

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

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

Its not just black churches.  At Bro. Keller's church in Ft. Wayne
Indiana in 1986-1987 I was priveledged to play behind an excellent
pedal steel guitarist.  Most of the songs were country gospel -- the
good old fashioned kind, including all the old favorite hymns out of
the old white hymnal with the shaped notes.  I wish more churches sang
and played like that today!  No pretenses, no show-offs, just pure
worship.

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