The Southern Sacred Steel Conference runs Thursday, March 17, to Sunday, March 20, at The ArtsCenter and the Center for the Study of the American South. Prices for individual events range from free to ...

Discovery Channel has ordered new motorcycle series “Sacred Steel” to air as part of its Motor Mondays line-up, Variety has learned exclusively. The new show will take viewers inside one of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Though it hasn't quite yet hit the mainstream, sacred steel has been gathering steam and becoming more recognized on the country's musical landscape in recent years. Tonight, you can get a real taste ...

As the formerly secular Sacred Steel movement continues its way into the mainstream, it’s not surprising to see The Campbell Brothers jumping into the spirit of Christmas enterprise. The thoroughly ...

The band has no lead singer and its songs have no lyrics. You get one guess why it calls itself the Word. Confirming what the scripturally inclined among you suppose, this formidable supergroup, which ...

“Don’t ever let anybody tell you you’re playing the devil’s music.” That’s what B.B. King told the Campbell Brothers backstage, when they opened for him in San Francisco last week. Like King — not to ...

FOR AMERICAN MUSIC FANS, it's a find like a scientist's discovery of a new species. The steel guitar is central to country music. But no one outside Southern Pentecostal House of God churches had ...

On the newest disc from Robert Randolph & the Family Band, “Colorblind,” the pedal-steel guitar virtuoso jams with some heady company, including Dave Matthews, Santana and none other than “God” ...