Various Artists - The Best Of Sacred Steel (CD)

This CD is a compilation of electrifying performances from the Sacred Steel tradition of the African-American Holiness-Pentecostal churches. In the House of God churches, members of the congregation began playing sacred music on the electric steel guitar in the late 1930s. Today, the tradition flourishes, and this CD features many of it's premier figures including Robert Randolph, Chuck and Darick Campbell, Willie Eason, Sonny Tread way, Aubrey Ghent, Calvin Cooke, the Lee Boys, Glenn Lee, Elton Noble, Ted Beard, Josh Taylor, Footie Covington, and Henry Nelson.

Track List:

Disc: 1

1. Don't Let the Devil Ride
2. Call Him By His Name
3. Franklin D. Roosevelt, a Poor Man's Friend
4. I Feel Good
5. End of My Journey
6. The Train
7. Without God
8. Precious Lord Take My Hand
9. Just a Closer Walk with Thee
10. Since I Laid My Burden Down
11. Say Yes!
12. Where Could I Go But to the Lord
13. Footie's Medley (Pink Panther)
14. Then Comes Joy
15. Praise the Lord Everybody
16. Near the Cross