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 ...

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“Our music and sacred steel music has always been about the congregation, and right now the congregation is starting to be the world.” These are the words of Chuck Campbell, master of the pedal steel ...

GRAND RAPIDS -- Generation by generation, Calvin Cooke has watched the ascension of talented, black "sacred steel" musicians as they have integrated new styles and attitudes into playing the pedal ...

In 2000, I traveled to the annual National Assembly for the Keith Dominion of the House of God Church. In mid-June every year, this black-Pentecostal denomination holds its General Assembly in ...

Sometimes, in order to better understand what’s going on in the present, you need to delve a little into the past. In 2002, I contacted Jim Markel, Robert Randolph’s co-manager, to discuss writing a ...

The sacred steel tradition is very much a fraternity. Many of the players are related by blood or marriage. Fathers pass the music along to their sons; elders in the church tutor the younger players ...

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 ...