NEA ain't all bad

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Ok .. who was at Bro. Keller's church? and do you still go there?  He was
our Asst here for some time and Bro. Kurtz from our church is also out
there now

On Sat, 17 Aug 1996 17:41:49 -0500 "Robert J. Brown" <rj@eli.wariat.org>
writes:
>>>>>> "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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